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yum notes
Some notes I kept when I was learning how to use yum.
Installing a package that has been excluded
The file /etc/yum.conf may contain an ’excludes’ line that will disallow updates of any of packages listed. To bypass this, you can comment out those packages in /etc/yum.conf, or you can one-off it like this:
yum --disableexcludes all install gcc
Finding which repo has the file you need
yum provides '*apxs*'
You may need to add ‘–disableexcludes all’ too.