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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This weekend it occurred to me that I likely have several out-of-date packages on my server, so I set about updating them.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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