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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I was updating a slightly out of date server with yum update and ran into memory issues.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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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