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YUM is an open-source command-line package-management utility for RPM-compatible Linux operating systems.

The Yellowdog Updater, Modified (YUM) is an open-source command-line package-management utility for RPM-compatible Linux operating systems and has been released under the GNU General Public License. Though yum has a command-line interface, several other tools provide graphical user interfaces to yum functionality.

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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. FreeBSD does this with the ports-mgmt/portaudit…
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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 do with these files? What will happen at the next…
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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. Typically I am of the mindset of if it isn't broke -…
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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 believe I did a manual yum update the other day just to…
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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 our internal server. In order to test patches…
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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 wanted to update with yum because this is the most…
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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 when I tried to execute it on Cent OS 5,…
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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: mirror.ellogroup.com * extras:…
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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 --> Missing Dependency: php53-common = 5.3.3-4.ius.el5 is…
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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 will manually update our production servers about…
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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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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 packages, not only the ones listed in the original…
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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 it possible to download only the RPM packages? When…
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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 me: Setting up Install Process Package…
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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 following: $ yum install php $ yum install…
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