I have written about the yum package manager in the past, and it’s one of the main reasons I use CentOS and Fedora Linux. Various 3rd party yum repositories are also available, allowing you to gain access to numerous packages that aren’t available in the stock distributions. This is great, but sometimes you want to [...]
I’ve been a long time reader of arstechnica, and really dig their technology reviews. I just came across their Ars takes a first look under the hood of Fedora 12 article, and was stoked when I read the following: “PackageKit, the package management framework, has also received some intriguing enhancements in Fedora 12. A new [...]
I was reviewing the configuration of a system last week, and needed to find out which packages were added after the initial installation. The rpm utility has a slew of options (you can view the list of options by running `rpm –querytags | more`) to query the package database, including the extremely handy INSTALLTIME option. [...]
Dell has supported Linux on their PowerEdge server line for several years. I just came across the Dell Linux wiki, and more importantly the Dell OMSA Repository. This repository is a one stop shop for Dell-specific drivers and the OpenManage monitoring and reporting software. I’m hoping to fire up my Dell 2850 later this week [...]
Vijay Avarachen posted a great tip on Linux Journal’s website. In the article Vijay posted, he shows how to use rpm along with the verify option to list files that have changed: $ rpm -qa | xargs rpm –verify –nomtime | less S.5…… c /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo ..5…… c /etc/pki/nssdb/secmod.db S.5…… /etc/cron.d/smolt ….L…. c /etc/pam.d/fingerprint-auth ….L…. c [...]
I’ve really like how yum has the “whatprovides” keyword. You can execute # yum whatprovides startkde And yum will search all of the known packages within the installed repositories and return back the package you need to install in order to have the “startkde” binary. At that point, all thats needed is a # yum [...]
