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Adding cdrom to yum as repo

If you want to be able to install the packages from DVD or CDROM available with you try the following instructions. First take the backup of /etc/yum.repos.d, remove those old repo files and add a new file called local.repo with the following lines: [local] name=Local...

Yum error: md5module.so: invalid ELF header

Are you getting the following error while working with Yum? # yum update There was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: /usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/md5module.so: invalid ELF header Please install...

Yum house keeping

If you use yum for installing packages on your Linux box, you have to clean up few things once the installation is over. Else you will be wasting disk space unnecessarily. Yes, yum does help you with this house keeping work. Just try out yum clean option. FYI: clean...