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

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How can i install figlet and toilet on Centos6

I have yum and rpm, and I really only how to install packages using these commands. When I tried to yum install figlet on a new CentOS6 virtual machine it couldn't find it in the mirrors list. I tried ...
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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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How can Yum tell me the version of depencencies?

I've installed a package with Yum (Varnish 3.0.2). However, a feature I need has been removed so I need to roll back. According to the documentation, the feature was removed in 3.0-Beta, so I wanted ...
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Can I ask yum to tell me what it would delete with a “yum remove” command

Is there a way to tell what yum would do "but not do it" for a given yum command?
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Linux Centos 5.5 yum update command is not working

I have done lots of things to update. yum clean all. yum clean metadata yum clean dbcache then ... yum update but the output is: ...
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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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Package dependency errors while installing mercurial in Fedora

I'm trying to install mercurial in my Fedora 14 using yum and get the following error.help to resolve this. yum --enablerepo=rpmforge --disablerepo=remi --disablerepo=fedora install ...
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How to know the version of RPM during installation

I have created a script for deployment using YUM and RPM. During the pre script, is it possible to know whats the version of the rpm I am deploying. I want to create a backup file with the version ...
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yum install error: protected multilib versions error

I am trying to install the development headers for openssl on a RHEL 6.1 system, but get the following error: $sudo yum install openssl-devel.x86_64 <SNIP> --> Finished Dependency ...
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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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Install GNU-Classpath without Jack/Gnome/Xinerama and other “bloat”

I need (desperately) to install GNU-Classpath on a console-only VPS to run a small java server. Due to incompatibilities with OpenVZ, I can't get the normal java VM to run. I have the normal VM ...
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CentOS 6.0 yum audacity dependency

I'm trying to install audacity on centos using yum and I cant force yum to resolve all dependencies, here's what i got, can someone help me with it (when I download the rpm file and click-installit i ...
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fedora14 yum update issue

I've just installed fedora 14 and added two repositories from rpmforge and dag. When I use yum update I get the following error after some processing. Error: Package: libcurl-7.21.0-10.fc14.i686 ...
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Yum : searching for a package with binary name

Is there a way to search a package using the binary name. for example I want to find rpm package for command "ls" then it should be coreutils-6.9-10.4.i586 for example.
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How to Set up External yum repositories?

I am new to linux, I am trying to download package using yum, but looks like external repositories are not configured. how to setup yum to download packages from external repositories. I am using ...
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How to use yum to reinstall all dependencies of a given package?

So I have a package that I am pretty sure that I removed part of one of its dependencies when removing something(as in rm). Long story. Basically what I want to do is have yum re-install the package ...
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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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How do I get yum to see updates to a local repo without cleaning cache?

I have set up a local yum repository which I use to install test builds. For the testing purposes, my packages are versioned by <svn version number>.<date>.<time> (e.g. ...
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Why do I get “Failed to set locale, defaulting to C” when using yum?

Every time I run yum install or yum update, I get Failed to set locale, defaulting to C and then other information. How can I avoid getting this warning?
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CentOS - How do I find out which repository a package was installed from?

When you use yum info to find details for a selected package, it lists the repo as "installed". That's all well and good, but for installed packages, I want to know which repository it is installed ...
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Yum- disable database update on package install

I'm using Fedora 15 and every time I try to install something with yum, yum tries to update the repository database. For most people this would be great and handy, but I'm stuck behind super slow ...
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Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit

I'm trying to install wireshark on Fedora(latest version with gnome3) and I keep getting the above error. I keep killing the offending process after finding it's pid using "ps aux | grep yum", but ...
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How to update yum in Fedora

I am using Fedora 12 and I have Firefox 3.5, but I want to upgrade it to Firefox 5.0 version using yum. However, when I do that it says that no updates are available because my yum repository is old. ...
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Can't install subversion over yum

How to install using yum ? Because when I tried this : yum install gcc gmake make libcpp libgcc libstdc++ gcc4 \ gcc4-c++ gcc4-gfortran subversion ruby ncurses-devel -y Subversion did not install ...
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How to fix CentOS 5.5 update problem?

It always has this problem. --> Finished Dependency Resolution perl-AnyEvent-5.240-1.el5.rf.noarch from rpmforge has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: perl(Net::SSLeay) >= 1.33 ...
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Amazon Linux AMI release 2010.11.1 corresponds to which RHEL version (4/5/6)?

I am using the default Amazon Linux AMI in an EC2 instance - Amazon Linux AMI release 2010.11.1. I can see that it's a Redhat based system, but after trying many tools (/etc/issues, uname -a, ...
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Alternatives to Gentoo Prefix?

Are there any package managers that: work without root privileges, and install packages at a custom location (similar to ./configure --prefix), and install stable packages (unlike Gentoo Prefix ...
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how to fix yum errors on my RHEL 5.3 box

I am getting errors when I try to install any package on my RHEL 5.3 linux box. I've previously installed mc(midnight commander) using yum but recently it started failing. How can I fix it ? thank ...
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How to install Ruby on RHEL 5.3

I am trying to install the latest Ruby on RHEL 5.3 with the following: [root@anjanb logs]# yum install ruby-full Repository engineering-update is listed more than once in the configuration Repository ...
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How to get list of dependencies of non-installed RPM package?

apt-cache show <package> shows also it's dependencies. yum info <package> does not show dependencies, but it obviously know them. How to ask yum for dependencies of specified package?
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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 ...
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Can someone explain the kernel\* in this command?

yum list installed kernel\* I don't understand how this would differ from "kernel*", or why the backslash is necessary.
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How do I downgrade packages easily with Yum?

Apparently, Fedora's yum has the ability to downgrade. I find this useful because abhorrently they feel they need to break NetworkManager on a stable upgrade. In multiple ways. How do I downgrade ...
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ionCube - Works on CLI but not with HTTP

-- I've tried this question on server fault without much success, maybe i'll be more lucky here, I'll delete the original if I can get an answer here -- I'm trying to install ionCube loader on a ...
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What are the advantages of a group package in yum over an rpm that depends on everything else?

On our local repository, we'd like to create a "product" install that includes all of our packages. The two ways that seem possible to do this is do create a "blank" package called 'product' that ...
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where is the repository for yum in Fedora 15 (beta)?

I just installed a pre-GA version of Fedora 15 and yum repolist is OK I want to install software via yum. yum can find the desired package, but when downloading, yum reports HTTP Error 404 Not Found ...
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If i use Yum to install a specific version of python, does that overwrite my current python or install an additional version?

I'm trying to install a specific version of python. I will be using yum install python26. My question is, does that upgrade the current python installed on the machine or does it install the new ...
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How to install yum on my centOs 4 that doesn't have any rpm utility or build-essentials?

I am trying to install yum utility on my centos 4 system that doesn't have any rpm utility or build-essentials
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yum install a particular version

I am currently using centOS 5.2 I want to install php 5.3.3. how do I install using yum?
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From where can I install Firefox with all other dependencies?

OS is Fedora Core 3 i368, yum repository is remi. When I try to install Firefox from the above repository, yum install firefox*, the error says that missing dependencies and provides a list of ...
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Where can I find out where a package has been installed to?

Fedora 14 xfce I have installed a package using yum install package-name. However, I can't seen to find out where it has been installed to. Is there any command that will tell me what directory the ...
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How do you Install php-mysql on CentOS

if i try to install php-mysql I get the following error... not sure how to recover from it to get MySQL and the PHP MySQL module up and running [12:51]~> yum install php-mysql Loaded plugins: ...
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yum install php-tidy - no more mirrors

Hi im trying to get the tidy extensions installed on centos running php 5.3 Thanks Downloading Packages: http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/centos/5/x86_64/php-tidy-5.3.5-1.w5.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] HTTP ...
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Install GNU Emacs GUI in Fedora

I've installed the "emacs" package from yum, but typing emacs at the terminal doesn't launch the GUI version. I was under the impression it installed by default, and emacs -nw would be used for the ...
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How do I add a apt-get repository without editing /etc/apt/sources.list?

I want to add a repository to apt-get (without potentially messing up /etc/apt/sources.list) through the user of a script. This script may run multiple times so I can't just append the entry each ...
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Getting the package name that contains a library that I need

Fedora 14 I recently went to install some software using the source files. When I ran the command ./configure I got a message saying that No package gthread-2.0 not found After searching the ...
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Install wine on RHEL with Yum

I'm trying to install Wine on Red Hat Enterprise Linux using Yum, but it's not in the RHEL repository. How can I install RHEL via Yum? I'm pretty sure there may be other repositories out there ...
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Clean up the yum cache after upgrading Fedora 13 to 14

I updated from Fedora 11 to Fedora 13, and then to Fedora 14. My disk space has been decreasing and I've noticed that /var/cache/yum/i386/13/updates occupies 800M I've run the following: yum clean ...
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Fedora 14 update problem

I'm having this problem with Fedora 14 update for last couple of weeks.. when I run yum update I get the following result: > Running rpm_check_debug ERROR with > rpm_check_debug vs depsolve: ...
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How much space do I need to upgrade my desktop from Fedora13 to Fedora14 [closed]

I want to use yum. It will download package from repositories. I know it depends on packages that I have installed. How could I calculate the space needed ?