While installing the yum-utils to help trouble-shoot my ailing server, a message said
Quote: * updates: mirror.team-cymru.org
Checking for new repos for mirrors
There are 1 outstanding transactions to complete. Finishing the most recent one
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There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them.
after aptitude udpate i got:
Current status: 542 updates [+470], 28356 new [+1469].
There are 18 newly obsolete packages: devicekit-disks, gcj-4.3-base, libcelt0, libdirectfb-1.2-0, libgcj9-0, libgcj9-jar,
libgraphviz4, liblzma1, libmagickcore2, libmagickcore2-extra, libmagickwand2,
libmenu-cache0, libntfs-3g54, libx264-79, libxmmsclient5, libxxf86misc1, w32codecs,
xserver-xorg-video-v4l
How would i delete/remove obsolete packages? And why are they obsolete?
I have slow internet connection so i keep each .deb package i download in my local archive for next installations, now there is a collection of some older and new versions of the same packages in my local archive, is there any way to delete the older versions and keep the latest one in my local archive.
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View 5 Replies View Relatedi read somewhere (I think an article by AlienBob) that you needed to make sure .tgz packages where located in a safe place as opposed to the home directory so as to prevent accidental deletion.
I have a number of .tgz packages that I have already installed and moved to the /bin/ directory for safe keeping, but its not very orderly, ya' know?
Is it safe to delete/rm these .tgz files? Im assuming that the installpkg command extracts the creamy nougat inside and puts it somewhere useful.
Also, even if it is safe to delete, what is best practice in this case? keep them forever in some isolated directory?
how to audit and delete unwanted rpm packages. how to back up repository list from YaST2.
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Additionally, what does "no longer needed" mean? Is it going to delete those packages too?
I ran into this bug: [URL]...I checked that overwrite-local was set to 1. So I want to delete all python packages that were installed by checkinstall with the /usr prefix.
Now it has been some time since I did this and I dont really remember. Does anyone using checkinstall know how to spot packages installed via checkinstall? I already checked the FAQ and doc of checkinstall, but no info on this.
3 partitions (in order): Windows 7, CentOS and shared data partition.
I need to increase the size of the Windows 7 partition (c:windowswinsxs seems to be something not easily remedied).
GParted didn't work in moving things around (bad sector) so I wiped out its partition (# 2 out of 3) and I was able to increase the size of the Windows 7 partition (I can reinstall CentOS easily and not much work lost).
Except ... no more grub menu (unsurprising). This incantation does allow me to boot into Windows 7.
Is there any way of rebuilding the grub menu short of reinstalling CentOS (5.5)?
I have a copy of the DVD Iso for centos 5.3. I downloaded the updated packages to the Centos directory and then ran the repomanage perl script to remove the old files from the directory. I then ran the createrepo and the new iso image with the script code below.
baseDir=`pwd`
rhelBuild=`pwd`/dvd-iso-contents
rm -f CentOS_1.0.0.iso
echo "Updating repository"
dvd_discinfo=`head -1 $rhelBuild/.discinfo`
echo "$dvd_discinfo
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I am using VMWare to test the build, so I have the cd pointing to the iso image. I get the CentOS to start up find and dandy asking the questions for the interactive boot. It gets thru the stage of checking dependencies and then when it starts to copy down the image to the "harddrive" that is when the problem occurs.
One of the updated files is file-4.17-15.el5_3.1.i386.rpm (file-4.17-15.el5.i386.rpm was removed using repomanage), but the loader is looking for the removed file. I've looked thru any dependencies, but nothing specific for the removed file, all are asking for /usr/bin/file with no specific version numbers. I have run a rpm -test on all the rpms, but haven't been able to look thru that to see if there is a specific request for the version.
I did try this, but it just moved on to the next file. I did not replace the file version, but then it found another problem that was the same as this, the updated file is in the repo, but it is requesting the old version. I looked thru the fileslist and others to see if maybe that was the problem, but they were updated to the new versions.
I've noticed this happen with every CentOS installation I've done in the past and it's confusing me. On the software template screen select, I always select "Server" and leave the extras option unchecked, I also check "Customise now". The only things I choose are the editors (to get vi), Web server and server configuration tools (and this time also Java). I didn't select any GUI programs, yet it still installs things like X, GNOME components and also samba. Why does it do that? There no way they're needed for dependencies. Is there something I'm missing when selecting the software components? Why does it still install samba when I didn't select it from under "Servers" components? Or have I misunderstood what software selection does and it installs all those components regardless but doesn't automatically turn the services on?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have created a number of network block devices that I would like to delete, but I have been unable to find any information to do this.
I am using Centos 5.6 and my kernel is 2.6.18-238.el5.
I have been searching the internet for two days now and have noticed some other UNIX systems do have utilities for deleting unwanted devices but nothing for linux.
I created these devices with the vmware supplied PERL script vmware-mount.pl which in turn calls mknod.
The commands would look like:
mknod /dev/nbd0 b 43 0
mknod /dev/nbd1 b 43 1
......
I have tried deleting them from /dev which works temporarily but they come back when I reload the nbd module i.e.
modprobe -r nbd
modprobe nbd
and also if I reboot.
There is a directory tree for each device under /sys/block and I'm guessing this is how /dev is getting repopulated. I cannot remove the directory trees from /sys/block. I get this when I try:
rm: cannot remove `nbd15/queue/iosched/slice_idle': Operation not permitted
rm: cannot remove `nbd15/queue/iosched/slice_async_rq': Operation not permitted
...... there are 25 lines like this ....
When I do a vgsan I see this:Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
/dev/nbd0: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
/dev/nbd0: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 2199022141440: Input/output error
and in the messages log I see this:
Aug 15 21:04:06 udon-desktop kernel: nbd15: Attempted send on closed socket
Aug 15 21:04:06 udon-desktop kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev nbd15, sector 0
How can i delete a ftp user on linux server centos 5 ?
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find /temp1/* -mtime +7 -exec rm rf
find . -mtime +7 -exec rm rf
find /temp1/* -mtime +7 -print -exec rm{}
It seems to me that the /tmp folder is currently crowded with old stuff. How can I tell CentOS to always automatically delete all /tmp folder content just before shutdown?
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[root@hp-p6130y ~]# yum list installed | grep xen
kernel-xen.x86_64 2.6.18-194.11.4.el5 installed
xen.x86_64 3.0.3-105.el5_5.5 installed
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I am trying to add a command to my backup script to delete the oldest file in the destination folder before adding a new .tar.gz file.I found this information at .html which I thought would work fine and added the following line to my backup script:ls -t -r -l /backups/Scalix_Backup* | head --lines 1 | xargs rmHowever when I tried this I get an error:rm: invalid option -- wTry `rm --help' for more information
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# rm d91c6a6e_2a2d7_out.xml
rm: remove regular file `d91c6a6e_2a2d7_out.xml'? y
rm: cannot remove `d91c6a6e_2a2d7_out.xml': Operation not permitted
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---------------------------------------------------------------------
SYSTEM_INCLUDE = -I/usr/X11R6/Include
-I/usr/include/cairo
[code]....
Back to my issue. Yesterday when I wanted to update packages...
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If I do a fresh 'netinst' of CentOS 5.4 x64 on a server, what is the correct way to verify that no 32-bit packages were installed or mixed in with x64? Also can someone tell me if it is safe to remove those 32-bit RPM packages?
I searched the Wiki for 'Post Install Tips' and could not find anything there or on Google.
I'd like to install a package named "pppoeconf" on my CentOS system. I try with "yum install pppoeconf" but the result is "nothing to do" (see below):
It seems that I have missing repositories and I don't know which repositories are good for CentOS. How to fix my repos?
[trixbox1.localdomain yum.repos.d]# yum install pppoeconf
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
epel 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
kbs-CentOS-Misc 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
atrpms-testing 100% |=========================| 2.2 kB 00:00
trixbox 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
trixboxaddons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
kbs-CentOS-Extras 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
atrpms-stable 100% |=========================| 2.2 kB 00:00
addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 98 kB 00:03 148/148
Reducing RHEL 4 5 - i386 - ATrpms to included packages only
Finished
Reducing RHEL 4 5 - i386 - ATrpms to included packages only
Finished
Parsing package install arguments
Nothing to do
[trixbox1.localdomain yum.repos.d]#
way of updating only the security packages on CentOS?
If I do a yum update. It updates everything and creates a new version which will unnecessarily uses space along with the old version. I don't want this to happen. way of updating only the security packages and keeping my old version of CentOS?
When configure packages bundled with CentOS, I have difficulty locating the installed directories. Anyway to locate those? I first worked on MySQL and now Firefox. They are not at the standard locations (or the ones refered in the manuals).
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I went into /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
and added priority=1 to [extras] [updates] and [addons].
Then, when I run 'yum check-update' it says there are packages being excluded. I would have thought that before I had installed the 3rd party repo - that nothing should be excluded? Especially with everything set to the same priority. On a side note - this is a Xen VPS that we are renting... and the providors have commented out the [base] section (#[base])... I'm assuming this is is OK and is for my own protection.
I've tried to install mysql-server using yum, but the other mysql-packages that needs to be upgraded cannot be found on any of the mirrors that yum tries.
This is the output:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* epel: mirrors.se.eu.kernel.org
* base: ftp.crc.dk
* updates: ftp.crc.dk
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