Yum
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- How to use yum command on CentOS/RHEL
- Fix yum errors
- Recover an interrupted yum package installation
HOWTO
Yum
Exclude packages
In /etc/yum.conf:
exclude=package1 package2
Show installed packages
yum list installed
Show installed packages from epel
yum list installed | grep @epel
Show active repositories
yum repolist
or
yum repolist enabled
Disable repository
yum-config-manager --disable reponame
FAQ
Exclamationmarks?
Repository has expired metadata, try
yum clean expire-cache
What provides a certain file
yum whatprovides
Which package does a file belong to?
rpm -qf /bin/bash
Which packages depend on a package
??
what files depend on package??
repoquery --requires --resolve <package>
Show dependencies for a package
yum deplist <packagename>
Installed package x.y.z (from anaconda) not available
Package not found on mirror
Check updates
yum check-update -q
Check security updates
HAHA GOTCHA! no security metadata on CentOS! There is for EPEL though. see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/10021 On CentOS 6 first install
yum install yum-plugin-security
yum list-security -q --errorlevel=0
Which repository is a package from?
repoquery <packagename>
or perhaps better
yum info packagename
Clear cache
yum clean all
or
yum clean all --enablerepo='*'
List files from package
rpm -ql packagename dnf repoquery -l somepackage
Updateinfo file is not valid XML
remove yum-cron
Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum.
Happens when you install something using rpm, what usually works is:
yum history sync
Not using downloaded remi/repomd.xml because it is older than what we have
Try
yum clean all
yum-daily
Yum error messages
Public key for *.rpm is not installed
Some stuff to try:
rpm --checksig -v /var/cache/yum/<channel-name>/packages/device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-34.el5.x86_64.rpm rm -rfv /var/cache/yum/* yum clean all
75 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Try
yum list updates -d3
Error: rpmdb open failed
mkdir /tmp/rpm/ mv /var/lib/rpm/__db* /tmp/rpm yum clean all
and then try again:
yum check-update
Multilib version problems found
Try
package-cleanup --cleandupes
Long version:
yum clean all yum list all --showduplicates
- NOTE: this one takes forever!
yum check yum list all --showduplicates
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.y7ZaM4: line 1: fg: no job control
Try
rpm -e --noscripts <packagename>
