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yum require an older version of a package as dependency

I have installed TexLive 2012 via the official site and want to install epydoc which depends on an older version. However, when I try to install epydoc which depends on texlive, I get the below ...
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yum is asking the kernel version which is already there

I have a server with centos 5.3 x86_64 on it. I am trying to install some asterisk modules on this server using yum. So yum asked me to upgrade my kernel to "kernel-2.6.18-308.11.1.el5" Then i have ...
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Graphical interface to YUM in Fedora 16

What are the options for managing yum software graphically in Fedora 16? and how can they be installed (if they aren't already)?
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“Couldn't resolve host” when installing/updating yum packages

Whenever I try to install or update a package using yum, after it updates its DB these messages are shown: Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit, tidy-cache google64 ...
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How do I fix the “Cannot retrieve repository metadata” error in Fedora 14?

When I try to install anything on Fedora 14, I get the following output: Repository base is listed more than once in the configuration Could not retrieve mirrorlist ...
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Can Yum express a preference for x86_64 over i386 packages?

I run a 64-bit version of CentOS5. At the moment, when I run Yum updates or installs, unless Yum is purged of i386 packages prior, it will install i386 packages when x86_64 are available. Is it ...
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How can I tell if a package is safe to update on CentOS?

I have a simple two-node CentOS cluster based on DRBD, Corosync and KVM. When I try to update its packages via yum it lists something like Updating: clusterlib x86_64 ...
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What package managers do popular Unix Distributions Use?

I am creating a Script and I need to know what package manager each Popular Unix Distribution Uses (especially those distros that are commonly-used for Servers)... I mean: Debian uses apt-get Fedora ...
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How to add the RPM Fusion and livna repositories to Fedora?

RPM Fusion and Livna.org are common third party package repositories for Fedora. You need them if you want to install media players, codecs and/or DVD playback libraries that are not part of the ...
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What means warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno when installing from rpmfusion?

Installing a media player from rpmfusion (via yum) yields following output: Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Install 3 Packages ...
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Remove unused packages - Fedora

I have installed some rpm package on my fedora 17. Some packages had a lot of dependencies. I have removed some packages but I forgot remove unused dependencies with yum remove. How can I do that ...
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Is there a way to install and remove packages in a single yum command?

Is there a way to add and remove packages at the same time with a single yum command? For example, installing postfix and removing sendmail without running two separate commands/transactions.
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Unable to install the php-posix package on CentOS 5.6

I have the following PHP packages installed on my CentOS 5.6 host and I am trying to install php-posix. When I run yum install php-posix I receive an error saying that php53-common conflicts with ...
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No yum repos on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga)

I have a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga) system and there is only one repository named rhel-debuginfo.repo and it doesn't seem to work either. Could you point me out some ...
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VMware Tools repo

I maintain a local repository for all the installation packages. I'm attempting to use reposync (the first time, I generally use rsync to mirror what I need) and I'm getting some odd behavior. Any ...
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Resolve missing package dependencies when trying to install octave

I am trying to install the octave software package on a RHEL 6 Workstation. I have installed the epel-release 6.5 package to enable the EPEL package repository. When I try to install the octave using ...
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Should you run automatic updates

I'm running production Centos web servers. I want to know what is best practice for running updates. Should I automate this with yum-cron or yum-updatesd? Or is there a danger of updates breaking ...
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Optimize command yum

I would like knowing if there is a way to increase the performance of the command yum to install and search packages. I'm a very happy new user of Fedora 16.
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install RPM packages using perl

I'm trying to install RPM package using 'yum' through perl. But, the package is prompting to enter 'Y/N' during the install. How can i do a silent install?
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Why using rpm if there's yum?

As we know yum is a package management system which was built on top of rpm. It's also a command line utility which is a(rudely speaking) broader version of rpm, it resolves many problems(the main is ...
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Will yum remove mysql-server delete my databases?

My MySQL server has broken down, and I can't figure out why. Trying to do a yum reinstall I get this: Error: mysql-server conflicts with mysql-server I figure that's because the server already had ...
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Any other distro offer like Ubuntu Software Centre?

I want to know does any other linux disto offer anything close to Ubuntu Software Centre? Some of the features I like about it is A) Sandboxing B) Ability to search any of the libs/apps with ...
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How to make unused dependencies clean with yum? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I remove Orphan Packages in Fedora? I need something equal gentoo's emerge --depclean so how to make unused dependencies clean with yum?
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install using YUM without root permissions

So I don't have root permissions but I've been installing packages to a local directory on my(CentOS) system and it works fine. But I was wondering if I can do the same using yum. The reason I want ...
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Hanging at “Running Transaction Test” when trying to install php-soap

I have here a CentOS 5 and I'm trying to run yum install php-soap but the installer hangs on and the last step is Running Transaction Test. I found out that NFS shares are the problem. See here or ...
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How to easily maintain the latest versions of Apache/ MySQL/ PHP on CentOS 6.2?

We have a few servers running CentOS 6.2 deploying web applications using Apache/ MySQL/ PHP. In the past we've just regularly run "yum update" to keep all the software up to date. As of right now ...
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Replace yum with apt

I have used Ubuntu for like two years now. I am very comfortable with the aptitude package manager. I recently switched to Fedora(16)[I still have ubuntu on my other drive :) ] I am behind a ...
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setting up yum in stripped down linux

I have a box that contains minimal binaries needed to run Scientific Linux. What I want to do is to install additional programs. I could get rpm installed and tried to install yum but resolving those ...
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Trying to update php on CentOS 5.7

Apologies in advance - I'm not a good Linux user by any stretch of the imagination. I have a CentOS 5.7 dedicated server on which I host a few websites. I currently have php 5.2.10 installed, but ...
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pdksh missing from RHEL 6 and CentOS 6?

The package pdksh does not exist on RHEL 6 or CentOS 6 when I try to install it through yum. So my questions: Why is it no longer available in the default repositories? It is available in version ...
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Checking & Installing files in yum

I'm a beginner picking up RHEL... To check if some packages are present , i will type : yum check <packages_name> And then install by typing yum install <packages_name> Is there a ...
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When importing a key during a yum installation, where is that key stored?

I'm installing a piece of software for which I had to use a third-party repository. After adding the repository with rpm -Uvh http://[site], I installed with yum install [package]. One of the ...
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After yum update is it a good idea to restart the server?

I'm aware that it is good to run yum update from time to time to keep my Centos server updated, and I even see that there is way to automate this update. My question is, is it necessary to restart ...
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“No package <package name> available.”?

I have installed a few packages using the yum package manager (e.g., I've installed the statistical programming language R), but lately I have been unable to install packages. For example, I want to ...
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CentOS yum repository bad Header V4 RSA/SHA1 signature

I was coping with many problems to get stuck with this one. I have installed yum repository on server (CentOS 5.6) with: createrepo -v -s sha yumrepo/ sha is used due to solution to my earlier ...
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How do I install the nagios NRPE plugin on CentOS 5 using yum?

How do I install the nagios NRPE plugin on CentOS 5 using yum? I've tried yum install nagios-plugins but it's only downloading a fraction of a megabyte. Then if I do a search for one of the commands ...
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Linux distribution with 'yum' package manager

I hope that this question is appropriate for this site (if not, please accept my apologies). I am a professional statistician who uses the statistical programming language R. I'm currently building ...
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How do you add a package (or a mirror?) if the .rpm youre looking for isnt availabe in your VM build of CentOS?

I have yum and rpm, and I really only how to install packages using these commands. When I tried to yum install figlet on a new CentOS6 virtual machine it couldn't find it in the mirrors list. I tried ...
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Auto-update on Scientific-linux 6.1 64bit

yum remove PackageKit* what's next? I tried: yum install yum-autoupdate but I can't see any config file for it. How can I set the auto-update function* on Scientific-linux 6.1/GNOME? *want to ...
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Installing gcc on rhel 6.1

GCC doesnt seem to be installed on my Rhel 6.1 machine. Also, when i did: sudo yum install gcc It barfed: Updating Red Hat repositories. Setting up Install Process No package gcc available. ...
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I wiped my /etc/yum.repos.d

I think I seriously messed things up on my EC2 instance which I'm currently hacking on. I tried to install some rpmfusion repository from which to install FFMPEG, but it broke things and I wasn't able ...
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Can we now find boost 1.48.0 on yum in Fedora 16?

Not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but I really cannot find any information on the Web. Boost 1.48.0 has been out on the website for two days but there has still been no update ...
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“Cannot run C compiled programs” error when installing PDO PHP module

I have a cPanel server I want to install some packages on. I connected to the server as root and ran the following commands to update and delete all the existing repositories: yum update yum clean ...
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Linux Centos 5.5 yum update command is not working

I have done lots of things to update. yum clean all yum clean metadata yum clean dbcache then yum update outputs: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.6/addons/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] ...
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How to enable nagios user created by yum to use check_by_ssh

I've used yum install nagios on an Amazon Linux instance, and it created a nagios user with shell /sbin/nologin and homedir /var/spool/nagios. This is the behaviour on EC2. I want to use check_by_ssh ...
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How to install packages to a custom location in centos6

I have a shared location, let me call it /tp I want to install all my libraries and packages in this location just like the default install. Reason to do this is: I want all the users in the network ...
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yum groupinstall “Development Libraries”

I am new to linux. I am looking at some configuration notes for a CentOS, but I am configuring a Redhat machine. I am not clear: What the below commands install? Why one might install these? ...
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List all RPM packages installed from repo “X”

How can I get a list of all of the RPM packages that have been installed on my system from a particular repo (e.g., "epel")?
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Installing yum on CentOS 5

I have a CentOS vm that I'm currently working on. I tried to update yum and it broke, so I removed it. So I need to re-install it on my vm, can anybody tell me how to install yum on CentOS5?
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Yum stopped working after upgrading it

I just did yum upgrade yum and now I can't use it. It keeps showin this error: [root@devlon5 www]# yum install pdftohtml epel/primary_db 100% |=========================| 3.8 MB 00:00 ...

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