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Why yum install is giving me this "Could not retrieve mirrorlist" error trying to install a software?
I am not a system engineer (I am more a software developer).
I am trying to install Zabbix agent on a CentOS 7 system and I am finding the following problem with yum (I have done the same process on ...
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Centos 7 yum update issue
I am getting the below error while doing the "yum update" in centos7. I tried all other ways to fix but nothing is working. Please find the below full error for your information.
Please find ...
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Centos 8 running as a LXD container fails to install packages: yum ailed to connect to mirrorlist.centos.org port 80: Connection timed out
Under Ubuntu, I created a Centos 8 LXD container:
lxc launch images:centos/8 centoscontainer
Then, I log into the container with lxc exec centoscontainer /bin/bash.
I'm root, and I can access network ...
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CentOS 7 Yum not seeing available package updates
This weekend it occurred to me that I likely have several out-of-date packages on my server, so I set about updating them. Two packages require an update: Redis and Git. When I check versions on the ...
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Remove content from /var/lib/yum/plugins/local in Centos
The /var/lib/yum/plugins/local folder seems to store installed rpm packages:
$ ls /var/lib/yum/plugins/local
389-ds-base-1.2.11.15-95.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
389-ds-base-devel-1.2.11.15-95.el6_9.i686.rpm
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Metadata file does not match checksum after yum install
I'm trying to install elasticsearch using YUM repo on centos.
I configured the yum repo as described here :
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/setup-repositories.html
but after the ...
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Why does `dnf updateinfo` just output the "Last metadata expiration check"
I am writing a program to control dnf, and it needs a list of available updates for further processing.
The command dnf updateinfo seems what I want, I tried it on CentOS 8 Stream, but it just outputs ...
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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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interpretation of yum error messages
I tried to upgrade php 5 to php 7 on CentOS6 but failed with errors like this:
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: php-mcrypt-5.3.3-5.el6.x86_64 (epel)
Requires: php(api) ...
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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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I set the proxy for yum in Linux CentOS and it gives me error when I try to download
I installed Linux CentOS on VMWare Workstation, I am behind a proxy, I modified the yum.conf file and addres the proxy port user and password and when I try yum install xxx it gives me this message : ...
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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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How can I get a list of installed centos packages by only reading from the filesystem?
I am writing a tool for analyzing images and have full access to an image's filesystem.
I want to produce a list of all installed packages with name and version info. However, I do not want to ...
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Yum DuplicateOptionError Proxy
I don't know exactly what I am doing :(. I try to patch CentOS using BigFix. Somehow there is an error log from the target. Here's the part of log:
47790 : 2019-06-13 23:06:46 : INFO : 01 ...
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How do I prevent YUM installing a dependency?
I am trying to setup a CentOS server with multiple php versions.
I've managed to do this so far by installing the REMI software collections of php56 and php70 and I got Apache running with different ...
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Install packages on centos 7.2 based on packages installed on other centos
I have a centos 7.2 installed on virtualbox, and my customer have a centos 7.2 too. I written a program fir customer and for technical reasons they can not build source on their system. For that I ...
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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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My package's new updateinfo.xml shows up in the yum cache, but isn't displayed as a security update by yum update
I have a package I want to release a security update for. So I added an updateinfo.xml and used modifyrepo to add it to the files listed by repomd.xml. When I test with the baseurl of the yum repo ...
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yum broken when I interrupt updating nss-softokn-freebl-3.36.0-5.el7_5.x86_64
My system is centos7.
[root@centos7 caiyiheng]# uname -a
Linux centos7 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 6 11:36:42 UTC 2015
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
My system run in a virtualbox.
When I ...
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Yum Repo issues
My CentOS-Base.repo has the following mirrors:
[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-...
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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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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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/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/rpm/_rpm.so: undefined symbol: rpmpkgVerifySigs
My first time here to ask question.
Hope my question could help more friends after solved.
Base:
System Version: CentOS 7.2 64 bit
Problem:
Wrongly remove python that comes with the system. And ...
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slappasswd: symbol lookup error undefined symbol ber_sockbuf_io_udp
I have CentOS 7 (3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64) from Pivotal Greenplum Sandbox VM.
I tried to install OpenLDAP:
sudo yum install openldap openldap-servers openldap-clients -y
But when I run slappasswd -s ...
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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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CentOS - Yum not installing postfix - No obvious errors
When trying to install PostFIX on CentOS 7 using yum:
yum install postfix
It provides the following feedback and is not installed:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, universal-hooks
Loading mirror ...
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How to check what package was updated using yum history?
OK let's do a little experiment:
on a fresh installed CentOS, when I type yum history list, output is:
[user@machine ~]# yum history list
Loaded plugins: security
ID | Login user | Date ...
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How do I tell yum not to remove itself?
When I run this command
$ sudo yum erase git make gcc g++ zlib1g-dev libssl-dev wget subversion file python apt-utils binfmt-support vim apt-file xz-utils sudo subversion zlib1g-dev gawk flex unzip ...
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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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What does "from updates excluded (updateinfo)" mean on "yum check-update --security"
I've got an CentOS 7.3 installation running with automated security updates. Sometimes i check if there are available security updates. I noticed that many updates are excluded.
The function i ran is ...
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