yum – Just another Linux geek

20 January, 201420 January, 2014Korora

Fix problem updating packages in Fedora/Korora due to broken SELinux update

Unfortunately an update to the SELinux policy package in Fedora 20 (and therefore Korora 20) caused RPM scriptlets to fail when updating packages. This bug only affects systems that have […]

27 August, 201127 August, 2011Korora

Jockey device manager port for Fedora (using Yum)

One of the things I wanted to do for Kororaa was make Ubuntu’s Jockey device manager work. This would replace my current dodgy script and provide a mechanism for extending […]

20 February, 20116 March, 2011FOSS, Korora

Kororaa Beta2 bug fixes

If you’re running Kororaa Beta2, there are a few bugs which require fixing. Yum Firstly, the KDE version incorrectly included Yum from Rawhide (development) tree (GNOME version does not have […]

15 November, 201027 September, 2011Fedora, FOSS

How to upgrade Fedora (using PreUpgrade)

Coming from a Debian background, upgrading to new releases is second nature. Unfortunately, Fedora doesn’t seem to have it quite as down pat. Nevertheless, it’s possible and works quite well […]

11 November, 20106 March, 2011Fedora, FOSS

Testing yum’s autoremove orphaned deps feature

Yesterday I wrote about yum’s new feature which can automatically remove unused dependencies when a package is uninstalled. Today I got my hands on a suitable build of yum (add […]

10 November, 20106 March, 2011Fedora, FOSS

Yum gets autoremove dependency feature

Coming from a Gentoo/Debian background, one thing that has constantly bugged me on RPM based platforms like Fedora is the lack of decent, reliable dependency removal. It seems so simple […]

25 October, 20106 March, 2011Fedora, FOSS

Encrypted DVDs and Fedora

The well known RPMFusion repository contains a lot of the useful software which Red Hat doesn’t ship by default (for licensing, patent or legal reasons). It is the amalgamation of […]

3 September, 20093 September, 2009FOSS

Die, yum, die

When running a yum command (such as yum check-update) it doesn’t always seem to capture the CTRL+C signal in order to terminate the process. This means it sits there for […]

2 September, 20096 March, 2011Fedora, FOSS

Groups are yum

Just discovered how I can install grouped packages in Fedora using Yum. First, you can list the groups which are available in your repositories with: yum grouplist This will contact […]

13 July, 20096 March, 2011Fedora, FOSS

Fedora – removing unwanted deps?

OK, so I have Fedora running on my main machine (the default GNOME install), more on that later. First I need to understand some basic principles of Yum. I have […]