If you’ve never heard of yum, your probably overwork, and you should be. Installing programs on linux can sometimes be a huge undertaking. Whether you install from source code or you install using some fancy rpms, your going to run into dependencies, and requirements. Thats were yum comes in handy, you say install and it [...]
The Prefix
So heres the deal, over 18 months ago I threw my name in a hat for the domain registration of pastebin.org. After a couple of months I completely forgot about it. 2 weeks ago I got a email saying it was mine, so now for the fun part. I’m playing on building off the [...]
Recently, at SMG, we had to upgrade are development servers from an older fedora distro to RHEL5, I orignially thought this to be either tedious or difficult, I was happily suprised. found a good blog post out their on how to do this.
First off login to your current repo box, and then run the svnadmin [...]
Anybody who has installed a application that has 30-50 dependencies with yum will say it was as easy as saying yes, trying to install the same without yum and just the rpm files is a more tedious of a task but still easy, and if you installed the same from source your in for [...]