Archive for the ‘Yum’ Category

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

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 boot: when you load a CentOS/RHEL/Fedora install disk). I needed this because I was providing [...]

Posted on February 18, 2010 at 5:56 pm by herlo · Permalink · 2 Comments
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I guess we’ll wait

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 back because Ubuntu’s release is still on time. I’m glad though that the major parts [...]

Posted on April 18, 2008 at 4:31 pm by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Community, Fedora, Guru, News, Passion, Releases, Tech, Ubuntu, Yum · Tagged with: , , ,

Yum Update: 482:07

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 it didn’t take 28927 seconds (or about 1/3 of a day) to download that foomatic [...]

Posted on February 4, 2008 at 3:15 pm by herlo · Permalink · One Comment
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Werewolf (Fedora 8) Upgrade in 3 Easy Steps Using yum

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 feel pretty comfortable with yum and I thought it would be a good and easy [...]

Posted on November 10, 2007 at 1:35 am by herlo · Permalink · 15 Comments
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POW: Yum installation by groups

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 new “Windows File Server”. Yum provides this feature right out of the box these days, [...]

Posted on October 31, 2007 at 2:28 pm by herlo · Permalink · One Comment
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POW: bash-completion – Bash Auto Completion in Fedora using yum (and more)

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 Wednesday for another program. Over the past year or so, I’ve been on the hunt [...]

Posted on October 24, 2007 at 9:29 am by herlo · Permalink · 5 Comments
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