searching for installed rpms by vendor
lorrie82 asked: I am trying to figure out the syntax to use to search installed rpms by a specific Vendor in Linux. I was ideally just trying to use the …
How to make my RPM abort install based on outcome of %pre scriptlet
Ishpeck asked: I am creating an RPM package that installs some tools on a system. I want to check some machine state before installing my RPM package. My initial instinct …
yum install sshpass dependency issue
Blake asked: I am running centos 6.10 and I am trying to install sshpass. It is telling me that I am missing a dependency, but when I try to install …
How to remove package from rpm database
Roy Hinkley asked: I have a Centos 6 server that I accidentally added a RHEL 7 package to it’s rpm database. Added wrong package sudo rpm -ivh http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.0/rhel/7/x86_64/zabbix-release-3.0-1.el7.noarch.rpm So when …
What's the difference between `yum install <local path>` and `yum localinstall <local path>`
boardrider asked: If I have an RPM located on a local disk – what is the diffrefence between the following yum commands? sudo yum install /tmp/rpm_name.rpm sudo yum localinstall /tmp/rpm_name.rpm …
rhel7 yum repository metadata GPG signatures
Steve Button asked: I’m trying to sign yum repo metadata using GPG, as part of a Jenkins job. This is proving more difficult than I first imagined, but I’m sure …
"is allowed multiple installs, skipping" prevents downgrade of kernel on Centos6
Peter Kahn asked: I have 2.6.32-696.23.1.el6.x86_64 installed and would like to downgrade to 2.6.32-696.10.3.el6.x86_64 but the following command results in a skipping message: yum downgrade -y –disableexcludes=all kernel-2.6.32-696.10.3.el6.x86_64 Loaded plugins: …
redhat 6 | how-to install libpcap-devel
iamsterdam asked: the server is running: # cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 ([email protected]) (gcc version 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Sun Nov 10 22:19:54 EST 2013 …
Why are some RPM's "not relocatable"?
Matthew Moisen asked: An RPM is relocatable if you can install it like this: rpm -ivh –prefix=/path/to/non/default/dir package-name.rpm Without getting the following error message: error: package package-name is not relocatable …
How to ensure integrity and security enforcing signed unmodified RPM package?
uvsmtid asked: There is a way to verify files related to specific package against original RPM content: # Verify `vsftpd` package. rpm -V vsftpd How to complete the chain and …