28May 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 16 Comments

Build-Essentials in CentOS?

CentOS, How to, Linux, Tips and Tricks, Tutorials, Ubuntu
If you are like me, you may be doing this to install essential build libraries to compile something from source [code]# wrong method yum install build-essential[/code] :) Build essential is a Ubuntu / Debian package. On CentOS, you need to do this [code]yum groupinstall "Development Tools"[/code] Warning: This will install all development tools approx 49 packages closing to 65MB
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15May 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 6 Comments

Good bye CentOS! Hello Ubuntu

CentOS, Linux, PHP, Reviews, Tips and Tricks, Ubuntu
Its been about almost more then two years since I have been playing with CentOS on many different platforms etc. Its very stable but on the other hand, PHP/MySQL updates are very hard to get and still PHP is 5.1.6. I tried EPEL repo and it updated PHP to 5.3.1 but still there were conflicts with stuff and many core packages. So, I thought why not move to Ubuntu since it has just announced 10.04LTS (Long Term Support) in April 2010. Folks at iWeb were really nice to do a reinstall without any charges and also process a memory upgrade request at an amazing 50% discount. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Apache 2 version is 2.2.14 PHP version is 5.3.2 MySQL version is 5.1.41-3ubuntu12 SVN (Subversion) version is 1.6.6 As a comparison…
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12Jan 2010 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Fixing Pear ‘unsupported protocal’ error

CentOS, How to, Linux, Tutorials
Are you getting the following error while updating any package in pear? pear.php.net is using a unsupported protocal - This should never happen. I got this error right after I upgraded PHP from 5.2 to 5.9 (using CentOS-Testing repo). To resolve this situation, do this. [code lang="plain"]rm -fr /usr/share/pear/.channels[/code] and then do this [code lang="plain"]pear update-channels[/code] It should now give you the following output [code lang="plain"]Updating channel "doc.php.net" Update of Channel "doc.php.net" succeeded Updating channel "pear.php.net" Update of Channel "pear.php.net" succeeded Updating channel "pecl.php.net" Update of Channel "pecl.php.net" succeeded[/code] That's it, your issue is resolved.
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09Jan 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 2 Comments

To update or not to update?

CentOS, Linux, Thoughts, Ubuntu
All my technical life, I knew and followed this simple rule New updates to any application or component are meant to improve and fix the bugs present in it. Downloading new updates ensures that you system is up-to-update, has fixes to all those bugs you have been getting annoyed with and more stable. Unfortunately not every IT department thinks that, especially the one I am facing at work. According to them, the new updates should only be applied IF and only IF they offer some new functionality (duhh!). Hello! what happened to the bug-fixes that are promised with these updates? (more…)
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07Aug 2009 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

CentOS yum update missing dependency error

CentOS, How to, Linux, OpenSource, Tips and Tricks, Tutorials
If you are using [sourcecode lang="plain"]yum update[/sourcecode] on CentOS and getting the following errors Missing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.4 is needed by package libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.i386 (installed) gamin-python-0.1.7-8.el5.i386 from installed has depsolving problems Missing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.4 is needed by package gamin-python-0.1.7-8.el5.i386 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.4 is needed by package libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.i386 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.4 is needed by package gamin-python-0.1.7-8.el5.i386 (installed) Don't panic, the solution is simple ... just run the following command [sourcecode lang="plain"]yum clean all[/sourcecode] Then do [sourcecode lang="plain"]yum update[/sourcecode]
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