Yellowdog Updater Modified (yum) is an interactive, rpm based, package manager.
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Non-Root Package Managers
From my research, I seem to notice that all package managers insist on being used as a privileged user and must be installed into /.
Typically, what I like to do is create a throwaway account, ...
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How can I remove Orphan Packages in Fedora?
I just switched from Ubuntu to Fedora14. In Ubuntu we had the apt-get autoremove thing to remove orphan/unused packages. What is the counterpart in Fedora?
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Why did yum-builddep not provide the dependencies to install my rpm?
I am trying to rum my rpm package but getting this dependencies error.
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -ivh /root/x86_64/asterisk-1.8.12.2-1.fc15.x86_64.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
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How to automatically install packages?
I want to install packages automatically by running a script
I can write yum install php, but I want it to install another package once installation of the php package is completed.
Is there any ...
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How to add a repository on Fedora?
With one repository I did it like this (as root):
# cd /etc/yum.repos
# wget https://some.repo.example.org/foo/bar/Fedora_14/foo_bar.repo
# grep enabled foo_bar.repo
enabled=1
Is this the ...
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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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Update yum offline
I've been looking around for a way to update an offline fedora box but haven't found anything. I only have a Windows computer connected to the Internet. I noticed that my yum config is pointed to ...
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Download all dependencies with yumdownloader, even if already installed?
Is there a way to download all dependencies with yumdownloader, even if they are already installed?
I'm trying to create a local repo and only want to include the packages we need.
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Using YUM or installing APT on CentOS
I am having trouble with a centOS machine I am using. I need some packages, including john the ripper, but yum cannot find the packages.
When I type sudo yum install john, I get back the nothing to ...
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How to create Local Repositories in RHEL
I need to create a local repository in RHEl 5.5. i386
Because when I type some command in terminal it say that RHEL is not subscribed with RHN which is true. I took it from friend.
So can someone ...
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Yum update error: “can't start new thread”
I found several posts on this, but none of them work.
When I do yum update, I get the error thread.error: can't start new thread; full stacktrace follows:
[root@ripper234 ~]# yum update
Loaded ...
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APTonCD equivalent for Fedora
Is there an equivalent of APTonCD for Fedora? I tried googling and found YUMonCD but wanted to know if there exists some package in the repos.
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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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Where is the best location for finding information on /yum?
So I'm trying install php-mcrypt on one server and git-core on another server. It seems like locating packages is where I'm falling short. (just learning server administration)
I'm very ignorant of ...
