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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Cannot enable network after CentOS 6.3 fresh install
I am trying to perform a fresh CentOS 6.3 installation then run various yum commands such as yum install httpd.
The installation runs fine, however I cannot run any network based commands like yum
I ...
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What is yum equivalent of 'apt-get update'?
Debian's apt-get update fetches and updates the package index. Because I'm used to this way of doing things, I was surprised to find that yum update does all that and upgrades the system. This made ...
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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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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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What is Fedora's equivalent of 'apt-get purge'?
In Debian, there's at least two ways to delete a package:
apt-get remove pkgname
apt-get purge pkgname
The first preserves system-wide config files (i.e. those found in "/etc"), while the second ...
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Duplicating a Linux installation (Yum-based)
Given an installation based on Yum (specifically in my case, a Scientific Linux 5.1 x86_64 installation), how would I duplicate the installed programs and utilities to a new machine based on Fedora ...
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Package bash-completion missing from Yum in CentOS 6
I am trying to get tab-completion working in Yum in CentOS 6 (so I can do something like yum install firefo<TAB> and get back firefox), and I have found many tutorials which say to simply do yum ...
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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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How to get files downloaded by yum?
I install a software package on Fedora from the terminal using the command like
# yum install live-usb-creator
Now at first it downloads some of the packages from online repository and then ...
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apt-get equivalent of yum localinstall
When using Fedora I usually use yum localinstall as a way to install a rpm obtained outside the distribution repositories. I can't find an equivalent option in the apt-get man page. I'm running Ubuntu ...
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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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Yum: How can I view variables like $releasever, $basearch & $YUM0?
I am setting up a yum repository, and need to debug some of the URLs in the yum.conf file. I need to know why is Scientific Linux trying to grab this URL, when I was expecting it to grab another URL:
...
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List installed packages in Fedora
I used to use yum to list all installed packages:
yum list installed
Now I need to list top level packages only i.e. if a package is a dependency of another, it should not be shown. GNOME's ...
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Is there an analog of apt-pinning in Fedora?
Apt pinning is a feature that allows to set install priority for a group of packages, determined by a number of attributes, such as package version, repository, distro version, etc.
See man ...
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Can Yum express a preference for x86_64 over i386 packages?
I run a 64-bit version of CentOS5. At the moment, when I run Yum updates or installs, unless Yum is purged of i386 packages prior, it will install i386 packages when x86_64 are available.
Is it ...
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How to force 'yum search' to use local metadata/cache?
A lot of times when I run yum search, it tends first to download the metadata from a repository. How do I force it to only search the local cache? I prefer quick results to accurate data in this case, ...
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yum Damaged repomd.xml file
I'm having trouble doing anything with yum on Fedora 16. Here is the output I'm getting:
[user@mycomputer yum-3.4.3]$ sudo yum update
[sudo] password for user:
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, ...
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Yum and recommended/suggested packages
I'd like to install a software package on my Fedora System, but it has a lot of unreasonable dependencies (which I know for sure they are not actually required).
I used to work on Debian, where ...
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how do I install the stock centos repositories?
I have a situation where the stock repo files that should exist in /etc/yum.repos.d/ (like centos-base.repo) are not present. I need to get them installed. I am sure this is simple, but after hours of ...
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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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GUI for adding Fedora software source
Is there a GUI for adding additional software sources in Fedora (FC 13). I have a software repository that works fine when added manually (as a .repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d/), but I'd like to have ...
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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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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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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 an rpm package that installs a Java environment if needed
I'm very new to RPM packaging and I'm curious if, during the installation of one RPM it is possible to conditionally install another RPM if needed.
In a nutshell.
My RPM requires a particular JRE. ...
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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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Fedora yum update error
When I run yum update, I receive the following error:
[root@chandru chandru.math]# yum update
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit, remove-with-leaves
Setting up Update Process
Resolving ...
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Differentiating between Hard and Soft Dependencies
I will ask this with an example -
I have installed gnash-plugin on fedora 64 bit with Yum. It pulled in following packages -
Installing : agg-2.5-9.fc13.x86_64 ...
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For what purpose would perl* be excluded in yum.conf?
I am not an Unix/Linux admin.
I was attempting to install git on our server, and after much googling and trial and error, I discovered that perl* is excluded in our yum.conf file, preventing perl-Git ...
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Problem installing packages on my Redhat machine
This is what I get
$ sudo yum install git-core
file://localhost/tmp/common1/x86_64/redhat/50/base/ga/Server/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 5] OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ...
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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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yum groupinstall “Development Tools” fails
Running
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
on my CentOS machine fails. I get errors such as:
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yum - list configure flags/options used to compile package
How can I see a list of flags/options used to configure and compile a certain package in yum, without having to install it first? Say apache, for example.
$ yum list available httpd
Available ...
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In CentOS, what is the difference between yum update and yum upgrade?
What is the difference between yum update and yum upgrade, and when should I use one over the other?
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Install Git on CentOS 5.5
I have added EPEL repo and here goes...
# yum install git-core
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* addons: mirror.team-cymru.org
* base: yum.singlehop.com
* ...
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Is it normal that Fedora's yum list kernel-* shows two versions of kernel being used?
Is it true that the following shows that two versions of the kernel are being used? (Is the bold face -- the one enclosed in ** showing what is currently loaded / used). Basically, I just created a ...
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Installing yum packages by pattern
I want to install all openoffice packages. Passing openoffice* obviously wouldn't work, because it'd look at file system. How can I do that?
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Is it stable to use epel and rpmforge in the same time?
So after a fresh Scientific Linux 6.3 Desktop install, I:
yum install rpmforge-release && yum update
and
yum install epel-release.noarch
then:
yum install wine gparted cups-pdf ...
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CentOS: Install packages listed in a text file?
I have an existing CentOS installation which I'd like to install extra packages to. The packages to be installed were supplied to me in a list, one package per line, which looks like:
....
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Yum update/install to any package is giving me the following error. What actions do I need to take to overcome this?
Yum update/install to any package is giving me the following error. What actions do I need to take to overcome this?
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ...
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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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“database disk image is malformed”
Running yum search something I get:
Error: database disk image is malformed
How to fix?
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Yum Check Available Package Updates
Red Hat docs say:
To see which installed packages on your system have updates available,
use the following command:
yum check-update
What command must I run to view all available versions for ...
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make reposync ignore /etc/yum.conf?
Is there a way to make reposync ignore /etc/yum.conf ?
When i use reposync --config=/my/path/to/alternative/inputrepo.conf it's still picking up repositories for consideration inside /etc/yum.repos.d
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Command for yum to install all packages without dependency
Is there any way for yum to install only that packages, that doesn't have any dependencies? I'm trying to install all python2 libraries. The code:
su -c 'yum install python-\*'
And I've get (ignore ...
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Are the boost headers separately packaged under Fedora?
The boost C++ library consists of several components. Some components do include shared libraries, other don't.
Under a Fedora 14 system I've looked a bit around with yum search boost and rpm -qR and ...
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How does createrepo work. How does yum understand parse its files. A conceptual explanation
I am not looking for a how-to on creating a repo (createrepo) or using yum.
I want to understand how they work together.
I want to know what files yum looks at and why, what those files contain.
I ...
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How come I don't have package updates in Fedora?
I last updated my Fedora 14 install weeks ago, so I expected a slew of new packages waiting for me, but after I run yum update, I instead get:
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Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for ...
