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How-To: Update all system packages with yum

May.02, 2008 in How To

This might sound like a really really simple thing to do, but it actually took me a little while to work out how to do this. To list all the available packages available for update, use the command: yum list available To update all packages on your system to the latest version, use the command: [...]

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How-To: Install GD on CentOS

Apr.18, 2008 in How To

Installing the GD library is easy on CentOS thanks to yum.  Simply type: yum install gd gd-devel php-gd And all your GD fun is installed and ready to go.  I was trying to install the Perl module GD::Graph and it wouldn’t compile, complaining: GD.xs:7:16: error: gd.h: No such file or directory After installing the GD-Devel [...]

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