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Update CentOS 4 to CentOS 5 remotely

December 31st, 2009

I just successfully updated my Dell PowerEdge 1850 from CentOS 4.8 to CentOS 5.4, luckily the issues I faced were not so rare. The steps I used are listed below, may it helpful for you as well! Although this post is mainly intended for CentOS it should work on RHEL systems as well.

Before you start, A word of advice i believe most experienced RHEL/CentOS users will show you regarding what you’re thinking:

Upgrade between minor versions (i.e. CentOS 5.2 -> 5.3 -> 5.4, or even 5.0 -> 5.4) YES
Upgrade between major system versions (i.e. CentOS 4.8 to CentOS 5.4) NO » Read more: Update CentOS 4 to CentOS 5 remotely

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Prepare the RPM Building Environment

November 9th, 2009

Some days ago, I posted some examples on the common usage of RPM. Now, this post describes a manual preparation of a RPM building environment. With the help of this environment, you can generate upated RPM packages and patch your RPM-based system from source code.
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RPM Common Usage Examples

September 15th, 2009

The Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) has establised itself as one of the most popular distrubution formats for linux software today. A first time user may feel overwhelmed by a vast number of options available and this article will help a newhand to get familiar with RPM.

The traditional way to install a package was to retrival an archive and then extract its files into the system wide directories. This worked fine but system administrator may face lots of problems like how to update the packages without breaking former settings, how to uninstall the files smoothly and completely, and how to deal with the dependency issues, etc. » Read more: RPM Common Usage Examples

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How to skip broken dependencies when Upgrading System

September 11th, 2009

I made a mistake and added additional repo under CentOS / RHEL 5.x server. Now when I try to upgrade packages it gives me out broken ependencies / missing dependency error. How do I skip broken packages and apply updates to other installed software’s? » Read more: How to skip broken dependencies when Upgrading System

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