Introduction to Yum
1. Introduction Yum is a tool for automating package maintenance for a network of workstations running any operating system that use the Red Hat Package Management (RPM) system for distributing...
View ArticleInstalling iostat in CentOS with yum
Iostat is a very powerful tool for monitoring the throughput of your storage subsystems. Especially to locate bottle necks and pinpoint possible upgrade scenarios. Not immediately visible here is how...
View ArticleFixing Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum
What does it mean? The yum message “Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum.” or, as the yum message said for a few months, “Warning: RPMDB has been altered since the last yum transaction.” means some...
View ArticleDiscover which repo holds a package in CentOS.
It is sometimes useful not only to know your repo list covers you for all the stack of software you want but also where does a package actually reside. The repoquery command comes to the rescue....
View ArticleQuick How to install tomcat
# yum install yum-priorities # rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm # rpm -Uvh...
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