Have you ever come across situation where you need to keep Fedora upto date without even connecting to internet or using shared storage? this is where following will fit in. /etc/yum.conf changes keepcache=0 to keepcache=1 run yum updates yum update -y copy packages to another location cp /var/cache/yum/* STORAGE -rfva (here, storage is backup folder [...]
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In previous post we have covered openoffice-3.2 installation, by mow many must have noticed while running yum update, yum is trying to upgrade openoffice.org-ure-1.6.0-9483.i586.rpm which belongs to openoffice-3.2 installation. This package is being replaced by openoffice.org-ure-3.1.1-19.14.fc12.i686 as a result openoffice does not work, to fix you need to reinstall openoffice.org-ure-1.6.0-9483.i586.rpm. To avoid it further, you [...]
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