Interrupted Yum Install Processs

I was patching a RedHat server that managed to get itself all confused when it was installing patches. I was able to stop the "yum update" process and restart it from where it virtually left off with following: "yum clean all" "yum update" When you run the "yum update" command, you will likely get some package conflicts. Just use the command below to remove the offending packages and then Yum can reinstall them for you! "rpm -e --justdb --nodeps packagename"

Debian Key Updates

If you are trying to do a Debian "apt-get update" or equiv. and you get a key issue... try the following commands: gpg --keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu --recv-key 9AA38DCD55BE302B gpg -a --export 9AA38DCD55BE302B | sudo apt-key add - Note you might need to change the key identifier to get the particular key you are missing!

Debian Linux and SunFire T2000

Well... with a Friday afternoon to spare, I have taken the plunge and decided to nut out all the implications for installing Linux on a SunFire T2000. Google searching doesn't yield a lot of useful instructions - the most interesting comment I found was that people had google'd for installing Linux on a SunFire T2000 and found no links! Here's hoping this article will be useful to someone else. Ok... first things first... The single biggest issue with getting this to happen turned out ...

RHN and Yum Errors – RedHat

If you get a response similar to this: [root@lxprx025 ~]# yum update Loading "rhnplugin" plugin Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories rhel-i386-server-5 100% |=========================| 1.4 kB 00:00 rhel-i386-server-vt-5 100% |=========================| 1.4 kB 00:00 rhn-tools-rhel-i386-serve 100% |=========================| 1.2 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files primary.xml.gz ...