Yellowdog Updater Modified (yum) is an interactive, rpm based, package manager.

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yum install package without updating other packages or fail…?

Is there a way to tell yum to install a package, selecting a version of that package that would be satisfied by currently installed dependencies? For example, if I'm installing a pecl package and I ...
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How to install vsftpd package

I am having a rhel6 server i want to install vsftpd package from there to my client machine How to do this.
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Reinstall XOrg with Yum - Fedora 18

Some how I messed up Xorg and need to reinstall it, with Yum. I can not find any Xorg packages, but it has to be out there right?
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Obtaining/Packaging RPM dependencies for Fedora/RHEL linux application — no network access

I currently have an RPM file with 2-3 dependencies specified in the 'Requires' section. When this application is installed using yum, it works fine and the dependencies are installed if they are ...
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How do I find the repo information to setup yum?

I am running openSUSE 12.3 with the KDE 4 desktop. I am trying to install software, and most sites say to use yum to do it. I try this, but it appears that I do not have any of these repositories ...
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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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yum install wireshark-gnome

I tried using command "yum install wireshark-gnome" to install wireshark on redhat 6.3. And I make sure the network is ok. But it fails cause by below prompt. Loaded plugins: product-id, security, ...
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How to access the Local FTP YUM repo from client Machine

I setup the FTP server on Machine A 192.168.1.105 and created the YUM repo. And placed following contents in it. #vi rhel-localftp.repo [rhel-localftp.rep] name=bla bla bla ...
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How to change the repository settings for yum installer?

I am pretty much new to Linux. I am trying to install tint2 on CentOS. When I try to install using the command yum install tint2, it gave following error checking for X11... configure: error: Package ...
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Sudo yum permission denied Fedora 17

On Fedora 13, in /etc/sudoers I used to have a line: Cmnd_Alias SOFTWARE=/usr/bin/yum and then for a user that would have the privilege of installing his/her own RPM packages, an entry like: ...
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Install packages in $HOME/usr

I'm looking to script use of rpm --relocate. How to change the default location packages are installed to - from user/local to $HOME/usr? Do I need to do it all manually (removing and reinstaling to ...
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Unable to run yum update on virtualized centOS 6.3

I am running a virtualized CentOS 6.3 on a Windows 7 computer. The computer (4 GB RAM) is connected to a corporate network. When I run yum update, it shows some progress, then eventually the VM (2 ...
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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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Can't Install gdal on CentOS 5

I'm really struggling with installing gdal on CentOS 5 -- I have searched and searched. Here is the output I get: [root@1-free-fonts ~]# yum install gdal Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror ...
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RedHat server packages are never found

I set up a virtual server Red Hat machine but every time I try to use the "yum" command to install new packages, the command works properly but it is never been able to find any package even the ...
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Missing Dependencies/Packages on yum install

I'm at my wit's end with this. After a lengthy series of events I've been trying to install libreoffice on Centos 6.3 using yum I've was successful in the past but after encountering some seg faults ...