Yum is an automatic updater and package installer/remover for rpm-based systems. It automatically computes dependencies and figures out what things should occur in order to safely install, remove, and update rpm packages. Yum also efficiently and easily retrieves information on any package installed or available in a repository to the installer. When trying to update
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No Comments » After installing CentOS we sometimes see that the date is not in our desired timezone, instead it defaulted to the PST timezone. Correcting your timezone is an easy operation, so here is a quick guide to change your CentOS timezone configuration file. Firstly you’ll need to know your timezone and/or country, a list can be
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A quick solution to duplicate packet installation. This tutorial will show you how to remove all i386 packages from CentOS 5 x86_64 server # yum remove \*.i\?86
You can update your CentOS 6 system to the latest version or to a specific version of the BIOS and firmware available in the Dell Linux online repository. You can inventory your CentOS 6 system, scan the repository for matching firmware with newer version using repository management software such as yum. Firmware-tools are used to
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