Pages related to the various package (software) managers – RPM, yum apt-get, pkg-config…
This issue looks very much like a bug to me: You start a brand new Linux installation You select wired Internet connection during install Your brand new Linux has no wireless connectivity (not even the drivers!) upon first boot. This is what I did to fix it (on my Toshiba satellite with Fedora 24 and […]
Best article on the net on the topic of installing codecs in Fedora (includes rpmfusion repo setup)! 🙂 How to install multimedia codecs on Fedora 22/23
Getting DB_RUNRECOVERY error from yum/rpm, what can you do to fix it? The error messages look something like this: $ sudo yum install google-chrome-stable error: rpmdb: Thread/process 9662/3077695168 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library error: db4 error(-30974) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: cannot open Packages index using db4 – (-30974) […]
Here’s how to list all packages whose names start with ‘nss’ yum info -v nss* | grep -v Committer | grep -w ‘Name\|Version\|Release\|Description\|Repo’ Here’s how to list all INSTALLED packages whose names start with ‘nss’ yum info -v nss* | grep -A12 -B5 -w ‘installed’ | grep -v Committer | grep -w ‘Name\|Version\|Release\|Description\|Repo\|installed’ And since […]
DON’T: yum install python-somePackage .. or apt-get install python-somePackage DO: pip-python install somePackage
You will need the following installed and started: libccid opensc pcsc-tools – can do without this but it has nice troubleshooting tools in case you get stuck pcscd – this is a daemon, make sure your distro enables it after installation. It must be running in order for the libccid to be able to communicate […]
The yum repos are described in files which are stored in /etc/yum.repos.d/ . So if you want to remove a yum repo you just gotta go to that dir and remove the file in question. It’s more or less obvious why one would want to add a new repo (to get stuff from it!) but […]
Sometimes a yum/RPM package would get “stuck” and just won’t go away. Actually usually the package is already gone but yum/rpm fails to update it’s internal DB and still thinks it is there. The error one usually sees in such cases is something like: Error in PREUN scriptlet in rpm package stlinux23-sh4_uclibc-which stlinux23-sh4_uclibc-which-2.16-5.sh4_uclibc was supposed […]
How can we remove the unused linux kernels and at the same time have our boot configuration (grub’s entries in the grub cfg menu) updated? First we want to list all the kernel-related packages, like linux-image and linux-headers, linux-generic, etc: $ dpkg -l linux-* On my 10.04 Ubuntu system the above command results in the […]
To enable a new RPM (yum) repository add a new .repo file for it under /etc/yum.repos.d. For example, to add a repository to install google’s Chrome browser add a file (e.g. google.repo) in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory and copy the following into it: [google-chrome] name=google-chrome – 64-bit baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub You may also append the […]