Usually, a user installs packages using the yum command line utility. The official CentOS repositories contain thousands of RPM packages, but in some cases, you may come across an RPM file that is not in any repository. Some software authors [...]
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RPM Commands in Linux with Examples
RPM(Redhat Package Manager) is a command line package management utility used for installing, uninstalling, updating, querying and verifying software packages. This tutorial I will explain some of the most common Linux rpm commands for a system admin. Some of the [...]
How to List Installed Packages by Size on CentOS/Fedora/Arch Linux
Sometimes, you may need to keep track of your system's hard drive space especially if it's a cloud instance that's hosted on Amazon EC2, Linode, Digital Ocean or on your physical server. You may be tempted to think that it's only [...]
How to Install Specific Version of Package on CentOS & RHEL 7
Sometimes, you may need to have a certain version of a package installed on your system to conform to a certain requirement. In this article, we are going to see how we can install specific versions of packages using yum package [...]
How to List Installed Packages by Date on Linux
Sometimes you want to know when a package was installed on your operating system, maybe for auditing purposes mostly if you're a Linux System Administrator. In this blog post, I'll show you how to list installed packages by date on [...]
How to Download Packages Using Yum/DNF without Installing on Linux
Today, we’ll take a look at how we can use package managers to download only rpm packages(offline) without installing them with all dependencies on Linux. Yum and Dnf package managers are used in RedHat distributions namely RedHat, CentOS and Fedora [...]
How to List Installed RPM Packages on Linux
The rpm commands are used rpm based distros like CentOS, Fedora, Opensuse and RHEL. Modern Linux distros use yum and DNF package manager which has more features. This tutorial explains the options that can be added to the rpm command [...]
Install RPM to a Different Directory (relocatable)
In this tutorial, we learn how to install rpm installation into a specific directory. For that to happen, rpm package should be relocatable. If that package is not flexible enough (--prefix path can't be set) to be installed in to [...]
Install and Update Redhat Kernel RPM
Kernel is the central component of an Operating System that is responsible for memory, process, and task and disk management. The first thing you need to think about updating a kernel is that “why do you need a kernel update”. [...]