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Yum Version Lock

February 21, 2023

How to lock a package or software in RedHat.

# For RHEL 5
yum install yum-versionlock
# For RHEL 6 and 7
yum install yum-plugin-versionlock
# For RHEL 8 and 9
yum install python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock

# For RHEL 5 yum install yum-versionlock # For RHEL 6 and 7 yum install yum-plugin-versionlock # For RHEL 8 and 9 yum install python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock

Locking a package

yum versionlock gcc-*

yum versionlock gcc-*

List locked packages

yum versionlock list

yum versionlock list

Filed Under: Linux Tagged With: install, lock, package, redhat, versionlock, yum

Yum Cache Corruption

February 4, 2022

If you’re getting a “HTTP Error 404 – Not Found” error when trying to run yum update, it could be a corrupted cache. Clear the cache on the system by running the following.

yum clean all
rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*

yum clean all rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*

Run yum update again. The errors should be gone.

Filed Under: Linux Tagged With: 404, cache, clear, corrupted, error, http, update, yum

Lock a Package in Linux

January 7, 2022

Here’s how to lockdown a package to a specific version.

Search for the current package.

$ sudo rpm -qa |  grep sdk
google-cloud-sdk-365.0.1-1.x86_64

$ sudo rpm -qa | grep sdk google-cloud-sdk-365.0.1-1.x86_64

Install versionlock.

yum install yum-plugin-versionlock

yum install yum-plugin-versionlock

Lock a package.

yum versionlock google-cloud-sdk-365.0.1-1.x86_64

yum versionlock google-cloud-sdk-365.0.1-1.x86_64

Display all locked versions.

yum versionlock list

yum versionlock list

Unlock and clear.

yum versionlock clear

yum versionlock clear

Filed Under: Linux Tagged With: lock, redhat, versionlock, yum

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