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openssl can be found by yum but can't be found by pkg-config
I found openssl is already installed on my server
# yum list installed | grep openssl
openssl.x86_64 1:1.0.2k-26.el7_9 @updates
openssl-libs.x86_64 ...
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Yum command to find files that an RPM will deploy
On Ubuntu/Debian you can run
apt-file list nginx-core
and you will get a list of all the files that a package will deploy when installed.
How can I achieve this in RHEL with the yum command ?
The ...
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Centos 7 CVE-2022-42920 missing security update
Since a couple of months we are using a vulnerability scanner (Rapid 7) which is complaining about the bcel package being vulnerable. Red Hat released an update package, but hasn't found it's way to ...
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Using both baseurl and mirrorlist in yum.repo
I want to cache RPM packets in my Nexus Repository. In repo file on client side I have two lines, both uncommented:
baseurl=http://nexus-ip/repository/bts-nexus-almalinux-base/$releasever/BaseOS/$...
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How to force install an rpm?
I have a gitlab pipeline where I will be installing latest rpm everytime.
Some times, even if the target machine is changed manually, the rpm should be installed successfully.
But some how I am ...
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How to deduce remote location of RPM that has been installed?
Suppose I had the following entries in /var/log/dnf.log:
elfutils-default-yama-scope noarch 0.185-1.el8 baseos 49 k
elfutils-devel ...
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Long-overdue "yum update" has multiple "requires" errors
After much neglect of my VPS (currently running CentOS 7.4.1708), I tried to run yum update, but after a long list of "Processing Dependency..." lines, the end of the output looked like this:...
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Failing to run yum update in CentOS 8
I want to preface this post with this disclaimer: I am somewhat unfamiliar with how yum functions and I am also unfamiliar with the details of the changes that are required since CentOS 8 became EOL.
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CentOS 9 Stream - errors doing yum update
I'm coming in from using Ubuntu.
Just installed CentOS on my DEV server and right away having issues just doing an update or installing new packages.
Here is the error:
sudo yum update
Last metadata ...
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How do I update a very old CentOS release (6.2) where yum won't work at all because of outdated openssl certificates?
I have an old CentOS 6.2 machine and need to update a few packages on it (or many packages, I suppose).
However I can't do anything with yum because even after changing the repos to vault.centos.org, ...
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yum not updating dependency during install
I have a situation where my-software requires my-common via:
Requires: my-common >= 1.2.0
During yum update my-software, my-common is not upgraded, and is left at version 0.0.1.
Why is yum not ...
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RPM failed dependency that's already installed
We have an old dev server for Centos 6 I want to update Openssl to a modified version 1.0.2k (we have got a C8 server to replace it, but trying to update the old one in the interim).
I have built the ...
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CentOS yum-cron updates stability
I have a CMS website that I'm taking over hosting that has been set up with CentOS 7.9. It is running on the VM and I want to keep that VM up to date with minimal manual intervention.
I have done a ...
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How to remove git from a specific folder?
I have a CentOS 7 system. It has git 2.27.0 installed, but that install, for reasons we can't figure out, won't talk to our https gitlab instance. It keeps failing on "unable to find remote ...
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Create local yum repository for a package which is available on http
I am trying to create local yum repo for packages.
I have followed steps here to create the repo: https://phoenixnap.com/kb/create-local-yum-repository-centos
But now, I want to create repo for a ...
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Need to add older version of IUS repo in order to install specific PHP 7.2 packages
The Issue:
Without unnecessary detail, I have two servers that are nearly identical. However one has its yum repos configured such that php 7.2 packages imagick and sodium are available for install, ...
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ffmpeg not able to yum
I am on CentOS8. I am facing similar situation as in this question, tried everything suggest in answers but could not solve.
Why I can't install ffmpeg on CentOS 7
I am trying to install ffmpeg-...
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How I could install NGINX from nginx.org repo using yum in CentOS-8?
Problem: After enabling repos, like I did for centos-7, yum just does not see any Nginx RPMs from nginx.org repo:
# cat << 'EOF' > /etc/yum.repos.d/nginx.repo
[nginx]
name=nginx repo
#baseurl=...
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How to install PHP 7.4.3 on CentOS 8?
I need to upgrade to PHP 7.4.3 (from 7.4.14), and I have somehow managed to make no progress after many, many hours.
*Needed for MediaWiki, Roundcube and PostfixAdmin.
Two questions:
Do I have to ...
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Error: conflicting requests in centos 8 package installation
I am trying to install the gdal on my centos 8. I tried with following command
sudo yum install gdal-libs
And it threw me following error,
Last metadata expiration check: 0:05:58 ago on Sun 10 Jan ...
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Update specific list of packages with yum
As most company we have different pre-production environment: development, integration, staging, production.
We would like to keep these env OS updated but we would like to perform yum update in ...
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`yum`/`dnf`/`rpm` equivalent to `dpkg -l` for RHEL/CentOS?
Is there an equivalent yum, dnf, or rpm command to Debian/Ubuntu's dpkg -l command to list both package names and installation status?
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How can I install or update software with yum in CentOS 6 when CentOS 6 stopped its lifecycle?
I failed to install or update software in my CentOS 6 system these days. I guess CentOS removed their mirror list after CentOS 6 ends its lifecycle after Nov. 30.
I use this mirrorlist:
http://...
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Error while installing postfix on CentOS 6
I want to install postfix on CentOS 6 but I get the following error :
yum install postfix -y
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Setting up Install Process
Determining fastest mirrors
YumRepo Error: All ...
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centos 8: debuginfo-install can't find kernel-debuginfo package
I have a machine with CentOS-8 installed, kernel shipped with it is 4.18.0. I need to install debiginfo package:
% sudo dnf debuginfo-install kernel-4.18.0-193.19.1.el8_2.x86_64
enabling epel-modular-...
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yum history list + how to verify rpm historical status
The rpm command gives every package installed a transaction ID. The transaction ID is a Unix time stamp (number of seconds since January 1, 1970). You can then perform some operations on packages ...
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CentOS working with older repos
I often find with CentOS that I find a reference to a package on the internet and it the pages says "this package is available in the repo", so then I do sudo yum install (as I know that I ...
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MySQL installation on centOS fails - dependency issues
I tried to install mysql on centOS following this digital ocean guide.
I ran the following commands;
wget https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql80-community-release-el7-3.noarch.rpm
md5sum mysql80-community-...
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How to get expiry date for yum repo signing keys
I recently had a package signing key expire preventing some automatic updates from installing so am now setting up monitoring to make sure we are alerted if this happens again.
On Debian systems I can ...
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Possible to yum install mysql without root access?
I need to set up a mysql client on CentOS, and usually do this with:
[pd@l01 ~]$ yum install mysql
You need to be root to perform this command.
However, I don't have root and I cannot sudo. is it ...
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How to fix this yum dependency requirement and install python?
bash-4.2# yum install openscap-containers
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package openscap-containers.noarch 0:1.3.3-1.el7 will be installed
--> Processing ...
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failed loading custom repository config /etc/yum.repos.d/kubernetes.repo in CentOS 8
I am add a custom repository config in CentOS 8 like this in my kvm virtual machine like this:
[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/kubernetes.repo
[kubernetes]
name=Kubernetes
baseurl=http:...
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exclude i686 packages in yum.conf
I'm trying to exclude *.i686 packages from installing when I try to install the x86_64 version of libcrypto.so.10.
If I put any of the following (one at a time) into my /etc/yum.conf under [main]:
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How do I resolve this dependency resolution error in yum?
When I run yum update, after dependency resolution I get the following error:
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: php71w-pecl-imagick-3.4.3-1.w7.x86_64 (@webtatic)
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All Yum mirrors failing with [Errno -1] repomd.xml does not match metalink
jq install is failing intermittently with this error.
http://mirrors.syringanetworks.net/fedora-epel/7/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] repomd.xml does not match metalink for epel
https://...
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Fixing botched yum update: cannot remove duplicates
I was performing a routine yum update when it starting throwing a stream of 'non-fatal' errors. It was complaining the machine had run out of memory. Nevertheless, yum didn't find it necessary to stop ...
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Why isn't repository priority working in yum/dnf in Centos 8?
I'm trying to install a MariaDB RPM provided by MariaDB, not Centos. Since DNF natively supports priority, that should be as simple as creating a .repo file similar to:
[MariaDB]
name=The MariaDB 10....
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How to list packages needing update in format for `yum update-to`
How can I get a space-separated list of the packages with pending updates on CentOS7 in the format that is required for passing as an argument to the yum update-to command?
I want to update all the ...
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tried php install and show error packcage php-7.3.17-1.el7.remi.x86_64 (remi-php73)
I tried 「sudo yum --enablerepo=remi-php73 install php-pdo php-mysql」in vagrant and show
Requires: libcrypto.so.10(OPENSSL_1.0.2)(64bit)
error: package: php-7.3.17-1.el7.remi.x86_64 (...
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Do I need to run yum update in fresh centos 7
Him guys.
Im used to run yum update when begin working on fresh centos servers.
Im working on a dedicated machine for cacti.
Should I install cacti and then run yum update ? or before install cacti or ...
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Will dnf-automatic update packages in yum.repos.d even though that's a yum directory?
Environment: CentOS 8
Package: NGINX 1.16
I installed, enabled and confirmed dnf-automatic with the following commands.
$ sudo dnf install dnf-automatic
$ sudo systemctl enable --now dnf-automatic....
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Yum on Centos 8 - Failed to download metadata for repo 'AppStream'
I'm on a fresh Centos 8 install and have tried to use yum for the first time (on this machine). I get the following for any attempt to install or update anything:
yum update
CentOS-8 - AppStream ...
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Block yum from installing or updating a package (mariadb) in future
We've just set up a Centos 8 server, and had to install MySQL on there instead whilst migrating services for the time.
All is working, we've removed MariaDB and MySQL is working fine.
What I would ...
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Determining fully (or sufficiently) qualified rpm package name from short name
Yum has some sort of built-in "semantic sugar" which does a translation of short-hand package names to actual package names, but I can't figure out how to easily get a hold of it.
Here's a simple ...
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How to update yum repositories to fetch newer versions of nodejs and related ones in CentOS 7?
I'd like to update certain packages.
The latest versions are not presented.
$ sudo yum list nodejs
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: centos1.hti.pl
* ...
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Linode / Nanode - Out of memory, when running yum update
I rented a nanode from linode which is the smallest model. I tried to install powershell core which caused some issues.
Now I got the memory allocation error:
[codingsafari@centosbox ~]$ sudo yum ...
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Update CentOS Security Patches
I need some help as I am really struggling to understand a problem.
I want to list the security packages that need to be updated by yum only on CentOS 6.
I have downloaded an old version of CentOS 6
...
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Installing ImageMagick-devel fails on CentOS 8
I am trying to install ImageMagick-devel on my CentOS 8.0.1905, but I get the following error:
# yum install ImageMagick-devel
Last metadata expiration check: 2:58:25 ago on Mon 18 Nov 2019 06:58:06 ...
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Error updating MariaDB (to 10.1.42) in CentOS and Ubunto
Yum is failing to update MariaDB to version 10.1.42.
yum check-update presents available updates for MariaDB (server, client, common, etc.) and galera.
MariaDB-client.x86_64 ...
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dnf - cannot install the best candidate for the job
I just installed CentOS8...
$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 8.0.1905 (Core)
$
... and now trying to follow Get Docker Engine - Community for CentOS | Docker Documentation, yet ...
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