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Software package manager that installs, updates, and removes packages on RPM-based systems. yum stands for Yellowdog Updater, Modified.

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Yum commands cheat sheet for Macports users

What are the equivalent yum commands of the following MacPorts port commands? search self-update installed (list) outdated (list) Are some things completely different from MacPorts?
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Trying "yum -y update" Cannot allocate memory

I am using VPS with 512MB RAM. Trying yum -y update and this is what i get: [root@cs09-prod ~]# yum -y update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * ...
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How to resolve rpm dependencies

I am trying to install libtirpc on RHEL 6.5 but it fails and asks for dependencies. Why here it is showing three GLIBC versions 2.14, 2.15 and 2.16. ?? Does it mean that any of these three versions ...
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Why does yum update fail in CentOS 6.4?

I am using CentOS 6.4 in a corporate lab, and the yum update fails with the below error: I am able to access the same repositories through the browser. [root@LAB1 ~]# yum update Loaded plugins: ...
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Why does ping to google.com or 8.8.8.8 fails

I am using Cent OS 6.4 and it is in a official lab. ping google.com gives the below output and hangs: [root@LAB1 ~]# ping google.com PING google.com (74.125.236.195) 56(84) bytes of data. ping 8....
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CentOS: How to install latest emacs version with YUM

OS: CentOS release 4.6 (Final) I am trying to install the latest emacs which is listed on their website as being v24.3. However, when I try to install with YUM the version is 21.3-19 which is from 10 ...
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Unable to remove PHP packages from CentOS, but also unable to update PHP package to PHP 5.3

I have an interesting, albeit infuriating problem with CentOS. I'm trying to configure this server to run a Symfony2 website I've built. The website doesn't work, and I've pinned down the problem to ...
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CentOS - Yum doesn't update anymore?

I've been trying to use yum now, but for some reason, not even the search work anymore. I even tried putting packages I already downloaded in the search criteria and is the same. [root@AMDFX03 ...
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Memory Usage of `yum update`

I was updating a slightly out of date server with yum update and ran into memory issues. It appears that yum requires enough free RAM to download each package. Updating single packages was not a ...
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yum install libcairo2-dev libjpeg8-dev libpango1.0-dev libgif-dev build-essential g++

Im trying to install https://npmjs.org/package/canvas. Im following this guide: https://github.com/LearnBoost/node-canvas/wiki/Installation---Ubuntu. With: yum install libcairo2-dev libjpeg8-...
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CentOS 7.2: Yum repo configuration fails

Fresh install of CentOS 7.2.1511. Server was originally configured with Network Manager and yum was working fine. Recently disabled Network Manager and configured network with traditional service (/...
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Default path for installed binary?

By doing yum install vlc I have installed the vlc player on my system. Now I want to know where the binary of vlc was installed. So what is the default path for installation in Fedora Linux?
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Installing mod_php for Apache after installing Remi repo version of PHP 5.6

I followed this guide on how to install PHP 5.6 from the Remi repository on my Amazon Linux 2 instance. Now I need to connect that installation, which was placed in /opt/remi/php56/, to already ...
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How to uninstall software in Linux

how to uninstall software in linux. I am facing issues installing No machine setup(NX)
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RHEL5.5 switch to CentOS repositories?

I was given a VM for a RHEL5.5 machine but I do not have a RHN subscription. I get this warning when using yum: bash-3.2$ sudo yum update [sudo] password for streamsadmin: Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, ...
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How does yum dependency resolution work?

If multiple packages satisfy a dependency for a package being installed, how does yum choose which one to automatically install? Can I force it to let me pick?
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What's the rpm/yum equivalent of `aptitude why`?

On .deb managed systems one can use $ aptitude why <package> to find out what installed package required the installation of <package> for example: $ aptitude why python i xdiagnose ...
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How to install gcc 5+ on centos

I use CentOs 5 machine which has gcc 4.1.2. I want to try out few C++14 features and would like to install gcc 5 in a non default location. What is the best way to approach this? For example, for gcc ...
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No module named yum when working on RHEL 8

Since our application works with python2, we needed to move to RHEL 8 After we installed python2 on RHEL 8 machine, we see the following: rpm -qa | grep python2 python2-pip-9.0.3-19.module+el8.6.0+...
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Owner of php session folder keeps changing

Problem Every few weeks, the php session folder of a machine changes to owner apache even though I'm using nginx. This breaks PHP applications, for example phpMyAdmin, with a session_start(): open(...
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Why is my yum update failing?

Why is my yum no longer working? It was previously working fine. But seems to have inexplicably stopped working. FYI, I'm running this on Centos system that is running in VirtualBox on my MacBook Pro. ...
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Installing Fedora 20 repos

I have recently installed Fedora 20 on my laptop. For the first thing, I tried to add Rpmfusion , Russianfedora to it; but it was failed. In the terminal I entered this: su -c 'yum localinstall --...
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View Configuration File Changes With RPM or Yum

How do I view the changes made to package configuration files (installed using rpm/yum)? I created a FreeRadius server that does MAC Authentication, and I just want to get the lines that I have ...
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Why does yum updateinfo not show all updates?

I am trying to monitor available updates on a CentOS 7 system. Now I had the impression that yum updateinfo gives exactly that, and sometimes it does, but right now on one machine it says Updates ...
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how to stop yum from trying other mirrors

I'm sitting behind a proxy on my CentOS 6.4 box and I can't perform a 'yum update' because yum keeps killing the slow downloads and trying another mirror. The problem is that the way our proxy works ...
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Yum: What defines the repo a package gets pulled from if the same package is contained in multiple repos?

On any given box that has subscriptions to multiple repos yum list available --showduplicates foo gives me: foo.x86_64 0.0.1-1 dev-repo foo.x86_64 0.0.1-1 test-repo What is the logic ...
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Upgrading glibc in centos 6.6

My server is using glibc-2.12.x. when I install certain packages it gives an error.Dependency not found glibc-2.14 or above is required.When I try using yum install glibc* it says server is already ...
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How do I upgrade PHP on CentOS and Kloxo?

I need to upgrade PHP so that I can upgrade joomla on my dedicated server. I have: kloxo 6.1.6 php-5.2.17-1 Linux CentOS-55-64-minimal 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I searched ...
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Protected multilib versions error when updating yum in Fedora 16

I have Fedora 16 installed. I'm facing some in issues when updating yum. Error: Protected multilib versions: flash-plugin-11.2.202.233-release.i386 != flash-plugin-11.1.102.55-release.x86_64
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Why Doesn't Yum Clean Up Orphaned Packages?

I recently used Yum (on Fedora 13) to install xmms2. It found some dependencies and installed those as well. Immediately after I installed xmms2, I performed yum erase xmms2, but it uninstalled only ...
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How to install jdk with yum on Fedora 17?

I want to install jdk by yum on Federa 17 and using : su -c 'yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk' But it show "no available package". How can I do to install it ?
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deleting /bin entries in linux

I have installed CentOS. I want to remove bzip2, so I enter this command in the shell: yum remove bzip2 bzip2-libs Then nearly 500 packages were removed and I can't enter any command. For example: ...
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Can we clean yum cache files manually?

I am using Redhat 7 while running yum update I am getting Bus error (core dumped) error. After troubleshooting I found that / was full because of /var/cache/yum/x86_64/7server/rhel-x86_64-server-7/gen ...
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How to get `mail` on a CentOS 6 server (running postfix)

On my old server, and most other devices I have run, there is a provided mail program. On my new CentOS 6 server, running postfix as the MTA, I cannot send command-line email via mail - the tool is ...
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No module named yum after "yum update"

Amazon EC2 Linux AMI Python 2.7.5 yum 3.4.3 I recently did a "yum update" and I'm guessing this lead to my issues. Yum now does this: # yum There was a problem importing one of the Python modules ...
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Node.js from yum on Fedora fails to start with v8 symbol error

I installed the nodejs package on Fedora 16 this way: # yum install nodejs But it crashed on startup when run with no arguments: $ nodejs nodejs: ../src/handle_wrap.cc:65: static v8::Handle<v8::...
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Capturing yum progress bar percentage

I would like to know if it's possible to capture download progress i.e percentage download complete shown by 'yum' while it's downloading a package. Capture, in the sense, could be to a text file or ...
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No Ansible config file or /etc/ansible directory after trying pip and yum install

So I have been trying to install Ansible for some server management however it seems that yum and pip both don't want to co-operate: I tried a yum install which refuses to work because it cant seem ...
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What does the "w" in "yum install -y php56w" stand for?

Following instruction on this page I installed PHP using command: yum install -y php56w My question is: what does the 'w' stand for in php56w?
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What comes after the underscore in an RPM version string?

I'm getting dependency conflicts when trying to run a simple yum update. I notice that in some cases, it's looking for a package called foo w.x-y.z.el6 while the repo only has foo w.x-y.z.el6_a.b, ...
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yum install simplescreenrecorder (No package simplescreenrecorder available.)

yum install simplescreenrecorder Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: centos-hn.viettelidc.com.vn * extras: centos-hcm.viettelidc.com.vn * ...
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Centos Nano Upgrading

I'm having a few issues with the default version of Nano...Its extremely buggy and when I scroll between characters they mysteriously change without my editing. How do I update my nano version? The ...
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Get "timeout" command from GNU coreutils 8 on RHEL 5.7 machine

What is the best way to install the Gnu timeout command on an RHEL 5.7 machine? I would prefer to install with yum, but I can compile from source if that is the only way. timeout was introduced in ...
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What does the @ symbol mean next to a repository when doing 'yum list'

What is the meaning of the @ symbol next to the name of the repository in this output: yum list | grep jdk jdk.x86_64 2000:1.7.0_25-fcs @puppmst-repo This is running ...
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How to find out which app yum installs?

I want to install screen and i think i could do yum install screen but i thought i could be smart and run a search first yum search all screen and here is the problem, this results in a huge list,...
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Using epel in RHEL 7 behind proxy

I am running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7, and I am having some problems getting the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (epel) repo to behave (ultimately I want to install XFCE). I think I have ...
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Determine when reboot required after patching from the command line?

After ssh'ing into a box and using yum or apt-get to patch, I would like to determine when a reboot is required. It would be incredibly helpful to know so we can schedule a reboot in a maintenance ...
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Yum doesn't list a package I'd like, now what?

I'm Linux ignorant. We're using CentOS and I have a need to install something called git-up and I understand that package managers are how you install everything onto Linux. CentOS has yum but the ...
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Why can't yum find inconsolata-fonts package available for install?

On CentOS v6.3 when I type: yum update followed by: yum search inconsolata-fonts or: yum search inconsolata I get no results. However a Google search indicates that a package called inconsolata-...
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What is the last part of rpm package release field?

Example 1: using yum info vim-enhanced I get this: Name : vim-enhanced Arch : x86_64 Epoch : 2 Version : 7.4.629 Release : 5.el6_8.1 Size : 2.2 M Repo : ...
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