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How to completely uninstall a package (including all extra files that came with it) using yum (or rpm)?
When I do yum remove, it sometimes keeps a package's configuration files.
Is there anyway to remove a package completely, without keeping any file that belonged to the package?
I am running CentOS.
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Determining Yum repo URL
If I add a new repo file under /etc/yum.repo.d/ folder. How can I gather all the URL which yum update will go out to fetch updates.
I am asking this because I have a server behind a firewall, which ...
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How do I list all the files not owned by any package in a RPM-based system?
I want to look for files polluting an old CentOS system in my company. Is there an easy way to do that?
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Find where packages have been installed using rpm
CentOS 5.3
I have been installing some packages using
rpm -ivh package
However, I am just wondering what command I can use to find the path of where the packages are installed.
Many thanks,
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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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Uninstall / remove RPM
I've installed CentOS 5 on an old IBM ThinkPad. Everything went fine until I had to make the wireless network connection work.
After searching Google I realise that I need to install RPM. ...
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rpm signing error rpmMkTemp failed
I'm running into this error when signing an rpm file. I've not got a whole lot to go on as you can see, and google seems to have come up empty. I'm stumped !
Does anyone know what causes it ? I'm ...
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RPM `requires` installation order
I'm seeking for help from RPM experts.
Suppose I have an RPM package A which depends on package B.
RPM A's spec has Requires:B with autoprov and autoreq enabled.
When I install RPM A on a centos 6.5 ...
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Wrong RPMforge Installed
I am running CentOS 6.2 and I installed RPMforge EL5 by mistake and I need to uninstall it and install RPMforge for EL6. How can I do that?
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Replace sqlite3.3.6-5 for sqlite3.7.0-1 on centos5
I want to update my sqlite3 version. I'm using centos5 (VPS requeriment), I have a new version downloaded (.rpm) and a previous installed (with the os) I have this error.
Well, I have noob on centos ...
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yum + skip broker or exclude rpms
during yum update on one of our rhel 7.6 server we get the following error
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: libtirpc-devel-0.2.4-0.6.el7.x86_64 (installed)
Requires: ...
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Fix broken rpm on CentOS
I get the following error when I type rpm:
rpm: error while loading shared libraries: librpm-4.3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
How could this library have gone ...
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How to download yum packages on windows (or online in browser)
I am newbie to linux and just started using it at home, but I don't have internet connection at home, and in office I have good internet but using windows,
I just want to download yum packages on my ...
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Offline RPM package install, with Windows
I need to install packages with yum on a CentOS machine I have. This CentOS server is not connected to the Internet because of my organization policy, but I do have a Windows server that is connected ...
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Installing an RPM package on a server without any access to the internet
I have a minimal CentOS server with no access to the internet. Let's call it server A.
My target it to build a shell script file to install a specific version of a local RPM file for an application. ...
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