Posts Tagged "yum"

How to install an rpm file on CentOS

Posted on Sep 20, 2020

On extremely rare occasions (LOL) we get precompiled binaires we can install on our Linux systems. Depending on the distributions, we may end up with an rpm file. I always forget how to install them when this...

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Removing the latest Kernel in CentOS

Posted on Apr 14, 2020

I’ve had a power cut recently, which seems to have corrupted the latest Kernel I have installed on my CentOS 6 server. I can boot into the previous one just fine, but of course if I forget to make a...

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How to revert a yum update on CentOS

Posted on Jul 12, 2019

Every so often, a yum update brings unexpected results with it, like services no longer working due to spurious error messages that don’t tell you what’s actually wrong. This only very rarely...

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How to remove duplicate packages with yum

Posted on May 4, 2017

I’m working on a handful of servers that all have the same problem: when running yum, an error message appears that tells me a package called ntpupdate needs to be upgraded, but somehow this...

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How to fix duplicate packages in yum

Posted on Jan 7, 2017

From time to time, the yum package manager may encounter issues with duplicate packages that are erroneously installed on a system. This manifests in a yum update going awry, telling us something along the...

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