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Find package name from filename using yum

# yum provides \*/ld-linux-so.2

Upgrade from Fedora Core 7 to Core 8

This is the steps I took to upgrade a running Fedora Core 7 installation to Core 8 using yum from the command line. Please note that live upgrades are not recommended by the Fedora Project. Make a list of the systems current packages for later reference: rpm -qa –qf ‘%{NAME}\n’ | sort | uniq > […]

rpm and yum stop working on Fedora Core 5

yum and rpm stop doing their magic because of corrupt files etc and no updates can be performed on the system. A simple, but maybe not recommended solution is to delete the files located in /var/lib/rpm -rw-r–r– 1 root root 0 Jan 22 10:10 __db.000 -rw-r–r– 1 root root 24576 Jan 19 17:12 __db.001 -rw-r–r– […]