packages

Yum Check Update

July 9, 2021 by Ulysses

To check which packages are available for an update.

yum check-update

Ubuntu Packages Kept Back

June 4, 2020 by Ulysses

If you see packages are being kept back in Ubuntu, you can run the following to force an update.

sudo apt-get --with-new-pkgs upgrade

Local RPM Install

March 11, 2019 by Ulysses

Steps for creating a local RPM package installation.

# download plugin
yum install yum-plugin-downloadonly
# download package and dependencies
yum install --downloadonly reiserfs
# download package and dependencies to a specific directory
yum install --downloadonly --downloaddir=/home/ec2-user package
# download multiple packages
yum install --downloadonly --downloaddir=/root/mypackages/ package1 package2
# finally install package
rpm -ivh -r /home/ec2-user package.rpm

One way to speed up the Linux package updates is to use a package mirror made available by Linode. They are hosted in all six of their data centers. Just pick a data center where your data is Linode server is located by doing the following.

Edit your sources list

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Search and replace

# Replace this address 
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ 
 
# with the new address 
http://fremont.mirrors.linode.com/ubuntu/
 
# you can also use this - returns round robin of all locations
http://mirrors.linode.com/ubuntu/

The next time you run a Linux update, it will be significantly faster.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade