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RPM Package Manager is a package management system used primarily for GNU/Linux operating systems. It used the .rpm file format.

RPM Package Manager is a package management system. "RPM" refers to the .rpm file format, files in this format, software packaged in such files, and the package manager itself. RPM was intended primarily for GNU/Linux distributions. The file format is the baseline package format of the Linux Standard Base.

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Reinstalling python on CentOS to be able to use yum

Yesterday I accidentally removed the python package using "yum remove" on a CentOS server. After then I realized yum was dependant on python and I could no longer use yum. I think I need to reinstall python to fix the problem. How can I do this…
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How to install puppet devel version from yum?

In /etc/yum.repos.d/puppet.repo have I put [puppetlabs] name=Puppet Labs Packages baseurl=http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/$releasever/devel/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://yum.puppetlabs.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-puppetlabs and when I do yum info…
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NRPE installation issues "Starting nrpe in daemon mode ... /usr/sbin/nrpe: error while loading"

I'm trying to install the nrpe package for OP5 on Centos. I think something is corrupt since I get following when trying to start the nrpe service: service nrpe start Starting nrpe in daemon mode ... /usr/sbin/nrpe: error while loading shared…
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%files section in building rpm from source using Red Hat package Manager

I am creating customized rpm through source. I want to know what is the use of %files section. These are the files that rpm will include in the package or it needs these files for rpm creation purpose? How to know which files should be listed under…
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How do I install latest version of ANT on CentOS 5 x64

I've installed ANT via yum but it's to old of a version. Not sure how to install it on it's own.
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rpm is freezing in the same moment

I'm trying to install an rpm package: rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm And got this via strace: http://pastebin.com/zP45epkd I'm on CentOS 5.7 64-bit: 2.6.18-274.18.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu Feb 9 12:45:44 EST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64…
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How does "yum info" work?

I want to know how the yum info command works. I know yum info will display information about the installed package, but I really want to know which file it reads for that information. Whether it's reading a file or it's reading from a database? If…
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How to install interdependent repository?

My yum is not working properly and I don't know why. I already am into production and cannot restart. I am trying to install libjpeg-turbo from rpm and yum is not able to find dependency. The dependency is libjpeg-turbo-devel as well. Command I have…
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Trouble installing rpm package

This is probably a dumb question. I need to install the rpm package as listed here: http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=CESA-2012:0467 but I simply don't know where it is hosted. I run rpm -Uvh freetype-2.2.1-31.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm…
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installing percona mysql on centos

From where will I get the mysqldump file from /usr/bin of percona mysql server (32 bit centos 5)? Is it available on the web without installing the software? In other words I am collecting all mysqldump utilities built by percona for various flavors…
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How Do I Install CentOS with Minimum Amount of Packages?

After running rpm -qa | less there was a result of 234 installed packages. From my experiences with default installations, there are usually applications installed that are not required by the system. How do I install CentOS 6 with the minimum…
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Cant install repforge on Centos 5

rpm -ivh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm Retrieving http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm error: skipping…
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Almost every app (rpm,curl..) is broken (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8) after rpm force installation - libnssutil3.so error

I'm using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 on my intra-net machine. While I'm trying to install new rpm, or even curl to some url, I'm getting that output: rpm: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libnssutil3.so: undefined symbol: PR_GetEnvSecure Every server…
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