Category Archives: Yum

Building RPMs and ‘This Week in Fedora’ interview

Posted on September 26, 2011 by herlo

Many of you may have already heard from my good friend Derek Carter about the GoOSe Project. If you haven’t, I’d love to hear your comments on what we are doing. I’d also encourage many of you to come and … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Fedora, GoOSe, LUGs, News, RPM, Tech, Yum | Tagged , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Anaconda is Awesome! How to force a network request with local media using kickstart

Posted on February 18, 2010 by herlo

I sure love it when I solve my own problems, but the internets are a great help to enabling me. Today, I found myself needing to enable the network (using dhcp) from the anaconda command line (the part that says … Continue reading →

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I guess we’ll wait

Posted on April 18, 2008 by herlo

As many of you may already know, Fedora 9 (codename: Sulphur) has been pushed back 2 weeks to May 13.  Being the organizer of the Utah Fedora/Ubuntu Linux Release Party on May 3, its kind of hard to push it … Continue reading →

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Yum Update: 482:07

Posted on February 4, 2008 by herlo

As I usually do while teaching class, I installed a Fedora 8 machine, and ran yum update.  Today I noticed a strange amount of time for one particular download: While this is hilarious, its shouldn’t happen.  Any ideas?  I know … Continue reading →

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Werewolf (Fedora 8) Upgrade in 3 Easy Steps Using yum

Posted on November 10, 2007 by herlo

Recently, there was a request in one of my comments on this post. The request was for an easy way to upgrade from Fedora 7 to Fedora 8. So I took this on as a bit of a challenge. I … Continue reading →

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POW: Yum installation by groups

Posted on October 31, 2007 by herlo

The second in the Program of the Week (POW) is here. Yum, the Yellowdog Updater Modifer, has a very interesting feature. One which you might find useful if you want to install an entire set of packages for say a … Continue reading →

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POW: bash-completion – Bash Auto Completion in Fedora using yum (and more)

Posted on October 24, 2007 by herlo

In an attempt to consistently blog, I am starting a new series here on fedora-tutorials.com. Program of the Week (POW). Hopefully, this will excite and inform all of us about the cool programs available in Fedora. So see you next … Continue reading →

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