How to know from which yum repository a package has been installed?

With yum-utils installed, repoquery will provide the information you seek (here ‘epel’ being the repository). $ repoquery -i cherokee Name : cherokee Version : 0.99.49 Release : 1.el5 Architecture: i386 Size : 8495964 Packager : Fedora Project Group : Applications/Internet URL : http://www.cherokee-project.com/ Repository : epel Summary : Flexible and Fast Webserver Description : Cherokee … Read more

How to make rpm auto install dependencies

Create a (local) repository and use yum to have it resolve the dependencies for you. The CentOS wiki has a nice page providing a how-to on this. CentOS wiki HowTos/CreateLocalRepos. Summarized and further minimized (not ideal, but quickest): Create a directory for you local repository, e.g. /home/user/repo. Move the RPMs into that directory. Fix some … Read more

Yum fails with – There are no enabled repos.

ok, so my problem was that I tried to install the package with yum which is the primary tool for getting, installing, deleting, querying, and managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux RPM software packages from official Red Hat software repositories, as well as other third-party repositories. But I’m using ubuntu and The usual way to install … Read more