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  • How to create your personalized Linux OS using SUSE Studio


    Computer Borders — Authority Authority: 112
    This week, in our Linux Page (in Spanish) we uploaded a brief post about SUSE Studio an online service which allows you to create new distribution based on openSUSE 11.2. The online OS builder allows you to choose between 32 bit or 64 bit system based on SUSE, GNOME, KDE, Minimal X or text only Server. In the next ...
    1 week ago

  • Cleaning up space used by the OpenSolaris pkg utility


    Blog O' Matty — Authority Authority: 125
    I’ve been experimenting with the new OpenSolaris package manager (pkg), and ran into an odd issue last weekend. The flash drive I was running image-update on filled up, and after poking around I noticed that /var/pkg had some large directories:$ cd /var/pkg$ du -sh *4.6M catalog1.5K cfg_cache892M [...]
    2 weeks ago

  • Introducing Shaman, a new universal package management frontend


    A Quiet Place — Authority Authority: 99
    Hello people, yes, you can shiver at the title: we have (are still, actually) done a new package management frontend. Why? Because KDE missed a great one. Maybe some of you using Arch Linux will recognize the name Shaman: it is the default package manager frontend in Chakra, and my very first project with Qt. As ...
    3 weeks ago

  • Configuring yum to use an HTTP or FTP proxy


    Blog O' Matty — Authority Authority: 125
    I have been experimenting with squid at home, and recently configured yum to use the squid proxy server I set up. There are two ways you can get yum to use an HTTP or FTP proxy. First, you can make yum use a proxy for a single session by setting the http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment [...]
    3 weeks ago

  • Adding 3rd party package repositories to CentOS Linux


    Blog O' Matty — Authority Authority: 125
    As a long time CentOS user, I have grown accustomed to firing up yum to install my favorite packages. Periodically a package I’m looking for isn’t available, and I need to go out to a 3rd party repository to snag it. One awesome source for 3rd party repositories is the repositories section of the [...]
    3 weeks ago

  • Adding 3rd party package repositories to CentOS


    Blog O' Matty — Authority Authority: 125
    As a long time CentOS user, I have grown accustomed to firing up yum to install my favorite packages. Periodically a package I’m looking for isn’t available, and I need to go out to a 3rd party repository to snag it. One awesome source for 3rd party repositories is the repositories section of the [...]
    3 weeks ago

  • Dealing with yum checksum errors


    Blog O' Matty — Authority Authority: 125
    I support a couple of yum repositories, and use the yum repository build instructions documented in my previous post to create my repositories. When I tried to apply the latest CentOS 5.3 updates to one of my servers last week, I noticed that I was getting a number of “Error performing checksum” errors:$ yum ...
    3 weeks ago

  • Creating yum repositories on CentOS and Fedora Linux hosts


    Blog O' Matty — Authority Authority: 125
    I have written about the yum package manager in the past, and it’s one of the main reasons I use CentOS and Fedora Linux. Various 3rd party yum repositories are also available, allowing you to gain access to numerous packages that aren’t available in the stock distributions. This is great, but sometimes you want ...
    3 weeks ago

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