By default, yum installs the latest version of a package among the all versions available in enabled repositories. Often it is required to install not the latest one, but some specific version or downgrade the already installed package to an older version. In this note i show how to make yum list all available versions […]
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Upgrading CentOS/RHEL from Minimal Installation with YUM
If you have installed CentOS/RHEL Minimal server installation, you may have lots of troubles with not installed packages. There is a way to install all packages, required by a Basic Server, using yum groupinstall command. groupinstall – is used to install all of the individual packages in a group, of the specified types. [groupinstall] – […]
EPEL Repo: CentOS 8/7/6 – Install & Enable – Yum
The EPEL repository (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is an open source and free community based repository project from Fedora team, which provides 100% high quality add-on software packages for Linux distributions. The following article describes how to install and enable the EPEL repository on CentOS-8/7/6, how to verify the EPEL installation and how to […]
Adding RHEL DVD as Repository
Perform the next steps to add RHEL installation DVD as repository. Step 1: Create mount point and mount the DVD $ mkdir /mnt/rhel-dvd && mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt/rhel-dvd Step 2: Create RHEL repo list and call it ‘rhel-dvd.repo’ $ touch /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel-dvd.repo Step 3: Add the following config to ‘rhel-dvd.repo’ [rhel-dvd] name=Red Hat […]