Questions tagged [yum]
YUM is an open-source command-line package-management utility for RPM-compatible Linux operating systems.
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How to know from which yum repository a package has been installed?
After I have installed a package by yum (with multiple repositories configured), how can I find from which repository it has been installed?
If I run yum info package-name (or yum list package-name), ...
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How do you answer yes for yum install automatically
In centos how do you answer yes automatically for yum install so that it is an unassisted install?
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How to accurately check if package is installed in yum?
I keep getting answers like:
yum list installed | grep bind
or
rpm -qa | grep bind
But that is not accurate as I'm getting a list of few other bind packages like these:
bind-utils-9.8.2-0.17.rc1....
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What does that mean: packages excluded due to repository priority protections
When updating with yum i recieve the following message:
yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* atomic: www7.atomicorp.com
* base: mirror....
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yum search - package version
How can I tell the version of a package after doing a yum search?
e.g.
yum search rabbitmq
returns
rabbitmq-server.noarch : The RabbitMQ server
I need to know the version of this server.
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How can I check from the command line if a reboot is required on RHEL or CentOS?
I'm using CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux on a few machines without the GUI. How can I check if recently installed updates require a reboot? In Ubuntu, I'm used to checking if /var/run/reboot-...
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Server wiped after "yum remove python" [closed]
A disaster just occurred to me after I ran the command yum remove python and now I can't boot the server up anymore.
How it happened: I tried updating some apps via yum on my CentOS 5 VPS and the ...
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How to install libpq-dev on Centos 5.5
In order to develop one web application based on postgresql, i need to install libpq on my centos.
I can install it by "apt-get install libpq-dev" on ubuntu, but i can not install it on centos by "...
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EPEL Repo for CentOS 6 causing error
I've got a VM running CentOS 6 (64bit) and I'm attempting to add the EPEL repo like usual to install various packages as I do quite regularly.
Today, I'm experiencing some strange errors yet I'm doing ...
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Disable the public key check for rpm installation
I want to make a DVD with some useful packages (for example php-common). The only problem is that if I try to install on a computer that's not connected to internet, I can't validate the public key.
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tell yum to ignore a single dependency
I'm trying to install winswitch on CentOs 6. It requires nxagent. But in centos, the package name is nx. Is there a way to tell yum to skip checking the nxagent dependency (I installed nx already)? ...
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What is the value of JAVA_HOME for CentOS?
I have install java through yum on CentOS, however another java programme needs to know what the JAVA_HOME environmental variable is. I know all about setting environmental variables, but what do I ...
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How to install Apache Benchmark on CentOS?
I try to install Apache Benchmark using Is there a way to install Apache Bench (ab) without installing apache solutions on my centos but when i run yumdownloader httpd, i get error:
root@local [~/...
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yum equivalent to apt-get upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade?
I'm a *.deb guy and I feel quite uncomfortable while managing rpms.
I'm used to run apt-get upgrade in my debian based servers for "normal" upgrades and apt-get dist-upgrade for allowing kernel ...
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Is there a way to install Apache Bench (ab) without installing apache
Can you provide instuctions on how to install ab on a fedora distro with or without installing the apache web server? With yum or compiling from source.
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What's the difference between `yum install <local path>` and `yum localinstall <local path>`
If I have an RPM located on a local disk -
what is the diffrefence between the following yum commands?
sudo yum install /tmp/rpm_name.rpm
sudo yum localinstall /tmp/rpm_name.rpm
Note:
I use RedHat/...
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Do I need to restart server after a linux kernel update?
I am using webmin (which uses yum) to install updates on my server, and it somestimes updates kernel as well including kernel-firmware and kernel-headers.
Do I need to restart the server after a ...
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Upgrade cURL to latest on CentOS
I need to upgrade cURL to the latest version on Centos
2.6.18-164.15.1.el5.centos.plusxen #1 SMP Wed Mar 17 20:32:20 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I'm unable to find any suitable ...
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How do I install an rpm that complains about rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1?
Im trying to install an rpm file on CentOS 5 and Im not sure how to resolve this issues it brings up:
$ rpm --install epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm
warning: epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm: Header V3 RSA/...
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How to install git to red hat enterprise linux 5.3 x64?
How can I configure yum to use some repository which has git rpms?
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yum equivalent of "apt-get purge"
I want to reinstall a package on CentOS and start from scratch. In Debian, I can do a apt-get purge foo and it'll remove all config files for foo. yum remove foo doesn't remove the config files. Is ...
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How to remove this warning "This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register."
I get the following error when i am listing the updates.Server is currently registered with ULN. Although its a warning, i do not want the below message displayed when i am issuing yum command.i found ...
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Install Xvfb via yum - yum repository for Xvfb?
I am trying to install Xvfb on a RHEL 6.2 system using yum. However, all of the help that I've found says to type:
yum install Xvfb
or...
yum install xorg-x11-server-Xvfb
Which I'm sure ...
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How to fix the warning: "RPMDB altered outside of yum"?
I have a RHEL 6 system, that I primarily manage through RHN Satellite. Recently I scheduled some updates through Satellite and received a response that the updates had failed. I ssh'd into the ...
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How to find out yum package names
Recently I needed to install yum mbstring but because I have two different versions of PHP installed I needed to install mbstring for php 5.5. Through some random google searches I figured out to run:
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How do I update YUM repositories? [closed]
I am very, very new to all this so baby steps please if helping is appreciated.
I am trying to connect to the following repository so I can update my YUM packages:
http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/centos/...
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Solving multilib version problems
I use CentOS 6.4
When I tried to install libgcc with yum install libgcc.i686 I took following massages.
Error: Multilib version problems found. This often means that the root
cause is ...
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yum error in PREUN scriptlet when removing packages
Trying to uninstall zarafa mail server.
I use yum list installed to view the already installed packages.
After which I use yum erase zarafa*
It picks up all the packages but returns:
Error in ...
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Installing Fedora RPMs in CentOS
How safe is it to install Fedora RPMs in CentOS 5? Does it depend on the version of the Fedora RPM or is it generally better to steer clear?
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Why do I have .rpmnew file after an update?
I use yum to update my Fedora. After a huge update, I got many .rpmnew and .rpmsave files. I could understand if I had modified these files. But I'm sure that I didn't edit these files.
What should I ...
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How do I upgrade to the latest PHP version in CentOS with yum?
I found some blog posts about this, but it's rather lack of descriptions on possible side effects.
I could really use some detailed on these steps:
How to add a repo that provides PHP 5.4 into yum
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Best Practices for updating a previously unmaintained server RHEL5.7
A new RedHat EL5.6 server has been recently put under my care. It is immediately obvious that, for the previous 12 months, little to no attention has been given to any sort of package updates.
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Automatically check for Security Updates on CentOS or Scientific Linux?
We have machines running RedHat-based distros such as CentOS or Scientific Linux. We want the systems to automatically notify us if there are any known vulnerabilities to the installed packages. ...
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Should I be worried that yum update suddenly wants to update well over 100 packages on my CentOS 6 system?
I get an email alert whenever there's something to update, and typically do them that day. This tends to happen most days.
For whatever reason I've had no alerts since 20th July until today (I ...
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Whats the difference between `yum groupinstall` vs regular `yum install`?
Whats the difference between yum groupinstall vs. regular yum install?
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yum client doesn't see new packages though server is updated
We have an internal yum server containing several repos (copies of the RHEL repo, programs created in-house, and so on). Our internal systems are firewalled off from the internet, so they can only use ...
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Upgrade Subversion 1.6 to 1.7 on CentOS? (can't find yum repository)
I want to upgrade my SVN Server from 1.6 to 1.7. Unfortunately I can't find anything on the internet how to do this with yum. I have checked rpmforge-extras but it has only svn 1.6 and not 1.7
I ...
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How do I remove a repository of yum
When I search for a package in yum(centos 6), it tries to search in a repro named 'c6-media'
And it gives a bunch of errors as follows
file:///media/CentOS/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] Could not ...
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Exclude a specific repo from YUM Update
I am doing a system wide yum update on RHEL 5.5 and the IUS EPEL repository is throwing a missing dependency error:
php53-mcrypt-5.3.3-4.ius.el5.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems
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yum should error when a package is not available
I recently ran into a bug in a script where I tried to do the following:
yum -y install another_package.x86_64 some_package.x86_64 && run_my_script
The script ran well on a newer CentOS, but ...
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How to check when yum update was last run
Is there a canonical way to find out the last time that yum update was run on a system?
Our set up is that we have staging servers that run automatic updates, and provided they don't fall over, we ...
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How to install libboost-devel on CentOS 6.3
How to install libboost-devel on CentOS 6.3?
I have tried the following command:
yum install libboost-devel
Output:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base:...
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Where can I find an online list of CentOS packages and their versions?
I am looking for an online list of the standard packages available for CentOS Linux.
I know that if I had a CentOs system running, I could use yum to list packages. However, I am trying to evaluate ...
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Download RPM packages for command which is already installed
I have a CentOS machine in which I already installed openssl-devel using
$ yum install openssl-devel
It downloaded and installed all the dependency packages.
Now I need all those RPM packages. Is ...
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Yum doesn't install latest version of Git on Centos6
When I go to Gits download section it mentions that latest version is 1.8 and I can install it by yum install git on Fedora. I'm running CentOS6 so that command should also work for me, but yum tells ...
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Why are outdated packages installed by yum on CentOS? (specifically PHP 5.1) How to fix?
I'm working on a fresh CentOS server and am extremely annoyed to find out that yum does not work as smoothly and brilliantly as "apt-get install" does on Ubuntu.
Installing a LAMP stack, I ran the ...
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Installing a third party application package on CentOS 6.4 fails due to missing dependencies libcrypto.so.10 and libssl.so.10
This is a Canonical Question about OpenSSL binary compatibility issues between Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and its derivatives) 6.4 and 6.5.
This issue applies to a wide variety of third party ...
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Installed software from source, how to say yum not to install it from package?
On a CentOS 7, I've installed foobar version 2, compiled from sources.
How can I make yum aware of that install so it won't install foobar version 1 for dependency?
Installation of foobar
$ git ...
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How did installing this RPM create a file?
Running yum install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/redhat/7/noarch/RPMS/getpagespeed-extras-release-7-1.el7.gps.noarch.rpm creates /etc/cron.d/sysstat2 but RPM disavows the file:
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yumdownloader vs repotrack
I'm working on CentOS 6.3.
Recently I come across repotrack from yum-utils.
yumdownloader --resolve and repotrack looks very similar,
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