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Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL),CentOS and Scientific Linux (SL). How do I enable it under CentOS 6 or RHLE 6 server?

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CentOS / RHEL: yum Command Reinstall Package

by Vivek Gite on December 30, 2011 · 1 comment

I accidental deleted the configuration file stored in /etc/ directory and the latest backup were made yesterday. How do I resinstall the package using the yum command under RHEL / CentOS Linux server?

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How do I force yum command to disable certain packages from being installed using certain repos such as EPEL under RHEL or CentOS Linux 6.x server?

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When I run ‘yum install package‘ or ‘yum update‘ commands the yum command works normally until Running Transaction Test and hangs until the yum process is killed manually using the kill command. How do I fix this problem under CentOS Linux 5.x AMD64 running on HP server?

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I want to use my local machine as the X server over ssh. But when I try to run ssh -X -v user@server1.example.com to the remote machine, I get the following error:

debug1: Remote: No xauth program; cannot forward with spoofing

How do I fix this problem and use X over ssh?

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RHEL Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum

by Vivek Gite on June 14, 2011 · 1 comment

When I try to update my server using the yum command I’ve been seeing the following error / warning message:

yum install aide
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package aide.x86_64 0:0.14-3.el6 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
=============================================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                Arch                                     Version                                        Repository                                              Size
=============================================================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
 aide                                   x86_64                                   0.14-3.el6                                     rhel-x86_64-server-6                                   123 k
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================================================================================================================================
Install       1 Package(s)
Total download size: 123 k
Installed size: 0
Is this ok [y/N]:
Downloading Packages:
aide-0.14-3.el6.x86_64.rpm                                                                                                                                            | 123 kB     00:00
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum.
  Installing : aide-0.14-3.el6.x86_64                                                                                                                                                    1/1
Installed:
  aide.x86_64 0:0.14-3.el6

How do I fix this problem?

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How do I verify that the system using correct GPG keys to verify all patches, packages and update installed from RHN or repo under RHEL 5 or 6 server operating systems?

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