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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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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I was updating a slightly out of date server with yum update and ran into memory issues.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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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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uninstalling vim-minimal also uninstalls sudo in Centos 7.4

Setting up a new CentOS 7.4 machine. I installed vim using sudo yum install vim, and then I uninstalled vim-minimal with sudo yum remove vim-minimal. Now sudo has been uninstalled: $ sudo -bash: /...
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Download yum packages on Debian for an offline fedora20 system

I need to download YUM packages (namely java-1.7.0-openjdk, gstreamer-plugins-good, gstreamer-plugins-bad and gstreamer-plugins-ugly) for an offline Fedora 20 machine, and I'm working on a Debian 7. ...
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Which package contains the `most` command

I feel extremely dumb for asking this, but: On CentOS, which package should I install to have the most command (a really nice pager)? A google search turns up way too many irrelevant results. A ...
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is it possible to install boost 1.55 on fedora 20 without breaking dependencies to existing boost 1.54?

I must switch from boost and boost-devel 1.54 to 1.55 due to a bug in 1.54 on a fedora 20 x86_64 machine and I wonder what's the preferred way. There are some packages that rely on boost (source-...
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Yum hangs on setting up package sacks

I'm having trouble with Yum installing postfix. I'm using yum on a trixbox/freepbx system and trying to get voicemail-to-email setup for VOIP Cisco phones in an office environment. Anyways I try ...
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How to force `yum reinstall` to overwrite changed files in a `/var` sub-directory?

I have a software package[1] that is already being used by multiple users. Its RPM is created with Cmake. For historical reasons, the software package installs some files in a subdirectory of /...
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Query packages installed after action

I'm trying to find out which packages have been installed by a script on CentOS7 which uses yum, so I can later download as rpms to install it on a similar machine offline. I've come up with some ...
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Add tool compiled from source to yum

I'm using CentOS(7.2) and I need to compile some tools from source to get some new features on the server. I'm OK with compiling from source, but I have problem with yum. Let's take a look at the ...
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Automatic updates for Oracle Java Runtime on CentOS

I'm a longtime user of Ubuntu and use webupd8 repository to install and automatically update my Oracle JRE on Ubuntu. Is there something similar that enables me to do the same on CentOS 7 (or RHEL)? ...
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How to tell yum I've moved countries?

I run a centos7 in a virtual machine on my laptop. I was working abroad for a month, and yum figured that out and changed the repositories that it checks (I don't know how that happened! Maybe I ...
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force yum to install package with broken dependency

I want to install a package with yum, but get: $ sudo yum install python-Kivy-examples Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, refresh-packagekit Setopt argument has no value: nodeps ...
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Add a file to /etc/yum.repos.d to install Oracle JDK 1.6.0-45 from yum?

I have a fresh RedHat 6.5 virtual machine on Amazon Web Services (EC2), its repos look like this currently: [root@ip-172-31-11-112 tmp]# ls -1 /etc/yum.repos.d/ redhat-rhui-client-config.repo redhat-...
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rpm/yum: require minimum version of optional package

I have two packages, python-modules and python-modules-foo. python-modules-foo does not require python-modules to be installed, but if python-modules is installed, it must be at least version X. In ...
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My Fedora Setup is gone due to accidental "yum upgrade"

How to roll back? I tried yum history undo 143 and yum --skip-broken history undo 143 and get the following errors. Important: All I care about is getting my kernel and custom graphics driver back to ...
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Could not open log file "pg_log/postgresql-Sun.log": No such file or directory

After installing postgresql on fedora 17 using the yum package manager. When I try to start it I get the error message. [vagrant@example ~]$ sudo /sbin/service postgresql status Redirecting to /bin/...
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Tell yum update to given date, no later

I need to tell yum to update to a certain date's patches. For instance, let's say a test box gets updated last Thursday. The owner beats on the machine and determines the patch set is good, so I want ...
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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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PHP 5.4 yum dependency issue on AWS Linux 2

I am running PHP 8.1 on AWS Linux 2. When I run yum updates I get the following error: > Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package php.x86_64 0:5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.3 ...
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Command `yum history package-list` not finding expected matches

On a server of Red Hat 7.9 (Maipo), we got an estimate that we removed the DSMC application from about five months ago. As a due diligence, we need to find more details including exactly when and who. ...
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Implementing the right conditions for a yum command for centos5 in Ansible

I'm currently working with a centos5 host and I have to install some packages with yum.. unfortunately, as far as I know, centos5 doesn't support Ansible's yum module so I have to use the 'command' or ...
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Yum nothing provides libraries

I'm trying to resolve a library dependency issue with a few packages (our code). We have one package, let's say package A, which has a dependency on two libraries provided by package B. Package A's ...
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How To Setup ostree and rpm-ostree on openEuler?

I have a task which is to test the rpm-ostree on openEuler. It seems not set up correctly, simply installing it with yum may not enable it. > rpm-ostree status error: This system was not booted via ...
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How to get some kind of progress meter on Yum downloads?

Is there a way to get some kind of progress meter when using YUM, for the actual downloading of the RPMs? I'm talking after YUM has done its thing with searching repos, and asking you if you want to ...
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`yum check-update` fails with an error in a CentOS virtual machine

The following error occurred when I enter the following CMD sudo yum check-update complete vm :
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yum + Multilib version problems found

we are installing now docker on rhel 7.2 version during yum install we see the following --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: found. This often means that the root cause is ...
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Not able to install any package in Redhat linux

I'm trying to install php or any other package getting below issue [root@xxxxxx xxxxx]# yum install php Loaded plugins: rhnplugin This system is receiving updates from Spacewalk server. Repository ...
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Unable to apply yum security updates

I've a few FreeIPA servers that were built using the official CentOS repositories and EPEL repo for FreeIPA. [root@freeipa yum.repos.d]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core) [...
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yum + dose yum support resume installing

I want to share the following problem when yum install & download heavy packages , this take time ( couple min ) regarding to that . I want to explain the following problem: when suddenly ...
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Can`t download with yum on Linux CentOS

I installed Linux CentOS on a virtualbox. The internet connection is thru proxy but I understood I have to modifiy resolv.conf. I added the proxy, username and password and then I tested with the ...
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Installing tensorflow-model-server on centos/rhel

After hours of failed attempts I have come here. I need to install tensorflow-model-server on a rhel box but the instructions are lacking and the manual compile failed. These are the instructions for ...
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How to use yumdownloader to download specific version of a source rpm?

by using folloing command: yumdownloader --source 'package-name-without-version' It will only download the newest source rpm of said software. how do I download specified version of source rpm ...
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Install a specific version of Docker CE on Amazon EC2 Linux

Due to a recent vulnerability with Docker CE I need to update our fleet of EC2 instances running Amazon Linux base AMI to the latest version. How do I install a specific version of Docker CE for ...
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Having problems with a local yum repo

I've tried to set up a local repo on a server (alecto) using reposync. This part seems to go OK and the the target directory (/repo) gets populated. I did this so I could update multiple VMs running ...
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yum install php dependency errors

I'm trying to install php 5.4 or 5.6 on an Amazon Linux 2 server using this command: yum install php54 This is the output: Loaded plugins: extras_suggestions, langpacks, priorities, update-motd ...
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Unable to update yum packages using CentOS 7.5

I have been getting the following error while updating yum packages. http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for base: Damaged repomd....
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Mysql 5.7 installation, Repository not getting listed

I am tring to get MYSQL5.7 installed on Linux Server release 6.7 (Santiago). Per instructions I firstly add the repository. This works fine but when I do yum repolist all it doesn't show mysql there. ...
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Cannot use Red Hat Optional channel with yum: repomd.xml not found

I need to install some packages that are in the optional repository channel of RHEL (like libtiff). I followed this instructions, but when I try to yum update I get this error: The issue is similar ...
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Oracle Linux Gnome Installation Black Screen

I want to install a GUI environment (GNOME) to OEL 7 Server. I ran command below to do this: yum group install Server\ with\ GUI But after than starting the installation I got a transaction error ...
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yum + connection refused

I can install the ntp rpm as the following by yum but before yum installation I get the failed lines as the following: yum install ntp Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, search-disabled-repos, ...
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Unable to run any yum command on Redhat 7

I have a new Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3, I am trying to install Ambari Server on this machine by following the steps in the link http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/Ambari-2.1.0....
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Is "yum update" safe?

CentOS 6.6 I have a production server and a test server. I just tried "yum update" on the latter and everything looked fine. It took 14 minutes. Before I repeat the operation on my critical server, I ...
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yum install updates up to a specific date

Is there a way to run yum update, but have it only install packages up to a certain date? An update that took place overnight (as it does everynight), caused issues, and now after reloading CentOS, I ...
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What is the name of the google-chrome package for use with yum?

I’m using the following version of Linux [davea@mydevbox mydir]$ uname -a Linux mydevbox.mydomain.com 1.3.8-18.52.amzn1.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 16 17:15:34 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I’m ...
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Is using protected_multilib with yum a bad thing?

I have a case where I would like to install multiple versions of a package installed side-by-side. The rpms have been crafted such that the paths of the files are different - so there should be no ...
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virtualbox stopped sharing mouse and clipboard between host OS and VM

I have VirtualBox 4.3.28 installed on Windows, with CentOS installed in a VM inside VirtualBox. For some time, I have been able to share the mouse and the clipboard between the host OS and the VM OS. ...
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How to download Fedora Packages on windows?

My Fedora has no internet connection but my Windows has. I want to download some packages and their dependencies on windows and then install those packages on my Fedora. How can this be achieved?
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rpm --ignoreos equivalent in yum

I have created an rpm on OSX that I want to install on CentOS6. I can do that with the following command: rpm -i --ignoreos <some_package>.rpm I'm wondering if there is an equivalent command ...
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can't start biber(bibLaTex Compiler), although it is successful installed (fedora21)

solved Hey, i installed texlive-biblatex* , but strangly i cant start it, using "biber". $ biber bash: biber: Befehl nicht gefunden... Also i cant access the manpage for bibLaTeX: $ man ...
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