Questions tagged [yum]

yum is a software package manager that installs, updates, and removes packages on RPM-based systems.

yum is a software package manager that installs, updates, and removes packages on RPM-based systems. It automatically computes dependencies and figures out what things should occur to install packages. yum makes it easier to maintain groups of machines without having to manually update each one using rpm.

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Unable to add additional repos in yum. Cent OS 6.8

I have some problems to update some repositories. The server os is CentOs 6.8. To get new yum packages it was no problem to to yum update. Until i added some additional repos. I do not understand why this is failing. As example, Cent OS 6.8. final…
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Yum just stopped woiking and gives error

yum -y update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror base | 3.6 kB 00:00 epel/x86_64/metalink | 22 kB 00:00 extras …
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Is linux packet update server connection secured?

I'm distributing custom applications for redhat. I want to set up my update server to have the client applications auto-updated. I need the update process to be secured. Can the connection to the update server secured and certified ? Is there an…
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Yum is not working anymore in scientific linux after python update

Im using a scientific linux on a remote machine. I tried to install python 2.7 on it. After that the yum and some other python packages are not working (it says "no module named yum"). I searched it online and it seems I should not have touched the…
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how to install gcc compiler on red hat linux without internet connection?

I want to install gcc compiler in the Redhat Linux VM where internet connection is not available. Using Scp software i'm downloading rpm files and moving to the VM. I would like to know what all are dependent rpm files for gcc to get installed. I…
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Install Kafka with sbt in an isolated environment

I'm trying to install Kafka, on RHEL 6.6, with the following instructions: > tar xzf kafka-.tgz > cd kafka- > ./sbt update > ./sbt package When installing sbt with yum install sbt-0.13.9.rpm from the bintray rpm repository…
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Design principles as to how linux repository managers update themselves?

I know there are other applications also, but considering yum/apt-get/aptitude/pacman are you core package managers for linux distributions. Today I saw on my fedora 13 box: (7/7): yum-3.2.28-4.fc13_3.2.28-5.fc13.noarch.drpm | 42 kB …
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Apache version 2.2 and security vulnerabilities

A penetration test has recently identified that one of our RHEL(6.7) servers running Apache 2.2.15 is vulnerable on a number of points and needs to be updated to the latest version 2.4. I have run yum update and it says that there are no packages…
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How do you resolve dependencies after installing packages via source?

If you downloaded something and compiled via source code, and then you download another package via rpm that requires the thing you downloaded from the source code, how do you make it resolve the dependencies?
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Using homebrew on mac instead of yum

I'm following some instructions of setting up my dev environment for a new job. They use ubuntu I'm assuming and I have a mac. would it be fine for me to use homebrew instead of yum that they are using? For example I need to execute the following on…
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bash update from script

I am currently working on a procedure which includes the following call in order to update all packages to the latest version: yum -y update The procedure I am working on is written in a bash script as I am using the following first line in my…
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libXtst installed with yum; where is /usr/lib/libXtst.so.6?

libXtst is installed using 'yum install libXtst' successfully. [root@prdsup1 Packages]# yum reinstall libXtst Loaded plugins: security, ulninfo Setting up Reinstall Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package…
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How to install packages not available for RHEL4/CentOS4.9 using Yum?

I'm running i386 RHEL4.5, I'm installing packages using Yum by manually setting its configuration as CentOS 4.9. I have to run a program, for which I cannot download the following packages: cryptsetup-luks-devel, libconfig-devel. In…
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/usr/bin/sudo: Permission denied in cygwin when installing "libpng-dev"

I am getting the error as follows in cygwin $ make g++ -O3 -W -Wall -g -c -o ImageIOpng.o ImageIOpng.cpp ImageIOpng.cpp:19:17: fatal error: png.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. make: *** [: ImageIOpng.o] Error 1 After…
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R Statistics version 3.3 installed but older version 3.0 runs...?

I installed version 3.3 via yum but I can only execute or even find 3.0. When I check the path the only R-3.3.1 is in /usr/share/doc/R-3.3.1 and /var/lib/yum/yumdb/R. version 3.0 exists in /usr/local/lib64/R-3.0.1 but not newer…
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