RPM/YUM Tips on OS/2-eCS

This are some RPM/YUM general tips that I need to write somewhere to don't forget them.

List the Content on the RPM Server
yum list

or search something more specifically like the "gcc" available

yum list gcc*

Install something
yum install 

Ex:

yum install libc

Ex. with several packaged:

yum install libc gcc-4.4.4 gcc-4.7.3 openssl curl libjpeg libxslt libicu zlib libxml2 mmap pthread urpo libstdc++6

Reinstall Something
yum install 

Ex: yum reinstall coreutils

Update all the stuff you have installed
yum update

Install YUM/RPM
Sometime RPM did not get automatically updated or installed. You can manually install them again with: yum install rpm

Installing the Netlabs Experimental Repository
There is other repository for netlabs experimental stuff. You can use it under your risk.

This repository can be installed do doing a:

yum install netlabs-exp

It can also be set manually by creating a file under:

x:\etc\yum\repos.d\netlabs-exp.repo

with content:

[netlabs-exp] name=Netlabs experimental repository $releasever - $basearch baseurl=http://rpm.netlabs.org/experimental/$releasever/$basearch/ enabled=1

Clean
yum clean all

Check
This command check is the dependencies of the packaged are installed correctly.

yum check

RebuildDB
If your RPM database got corrupted you can use:

rpm --rebuilddb

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