DNF or Dandified Yum is the next generation version of the Yellowdog Updater, Modified (yum), a package manager for RPM-based distributions.
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Failing to download metadata with DNF upgrade playbook
i'm trying to learn something about ansible and the automation, unfortunately I'm getting frustrated at the early step. I just tried from debian 10 machine with ansible to write a yaml to upgrade 2 Oracle linux hosts, following a guide. What I've…
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Broken Dnf update on centos 8
I am getting the following error while doing a dnf update on a centos 8 server.
I have already tried the following:
dnf clean all
dnf distro-sync
dnf update --best --allowerasing
Last metadata expiration check: 0:02:15 ago on Sun 27 Dec 2020…
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CentOS 8 yum/dnf update fails over internet connection
I have a squid proxy server on CentOS 8 and whenever I install a package it returns lines along the following:
[MIRROR] git-core-doc-2.27.0-1.el8.noarch.rpm: Curl error (3): URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL for //Unfocus the…
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CentOS upgrade hosed
I decided to upgrade a remote 'live' server from CentOS 7 to 8. I followed the instructions here https://www.tecmint.com/upgrade-centos-7-to-centos-8/ and got into an endless loop of failures.
# dnf upgrade [or --refresh]
Error: Transaction check…
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New to RHEL; Coming from Fedora; Different repo managers?
I'm coming from fedora. Just testing the waters in RHEL 8.2
None of my standard dnf packages are available. For instance:
$ sudo dnf install powerline powerline-fonts
[sudo] password for adamhanna:
Updating Subscription Management…
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certbot installation on CentOS 8 fails
Trying to install certbot on CentOS 8 with sudo dnf install certbot python3-certbot-nginx, as suggested at certbot's website fails with the following error
Error:
Problem 1: package python3-certbot-nginx-1.3.0-1.el8.noarch requires…
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How to install Node.js 12 on CentOS 8?
I tried the following this post which states
Application Streams are typically named for the version of the software that is included, e.g. nodejs:8 or nodejs:10 [...]
... but as you can see below: It's not working.
$ dnf module list nodejs
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Will dnf-automatic update packages in yum.repos.d even though that's a yum directory?
Environment: CentOS 8
Package: NGINX 1.16
I installed, enabled and confirmed dnf-automatic with the following commands.
$ sudo dnf install dnf-automatic
$ sudo systemctl enable --now dnf-automatic.timer
$ systemctl list-timers *dnf-*
I installed…
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Linode / Nanode - Out of memory, when running yum update
I rented a nanode from linode which is the smallest model. I tried to install powershell core which caused some issues.
Now I got the memory allocation error:
[codingsafari@centosbox ~]$ sudo yum update
CentOS-8 - AppStream …
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Unable to run dnf update, after adding packages-microsoft-com-prod
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I tried to install power shell core on a CentOS 8 sever. It didnt work so I tried a couple solutions from the web. It seems like I have added a repository twice. On dnf update I get this output:
[codingsafari@centosbox ~]$ sudo dnf…
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