similar to: proper protocol for installing a *really* new package?

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I found a thread here about this problem, but no answer or resolution as to whether it's a bug, or even something that can be fixed. <http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=12114&forum=38> I'm trying to get PDF support under DocMGR to work correctly and it's complaining about pdftoppm being missing. A bit

i may be in the position of recommending that a sizable client take a look at centos as a supported platform in the near future, but if one goes to the "Support" -> "Commercial Support" page, it reads: This Section or Page is coming soon. that is *not* going to give this client any warm fuzzies. from a promotion perspective, either that page should get some actual

Hi Francois, Thanks for your quick response. Actually, I had already done that... sudo apt-get install libpoppler-cpp-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done libpoppler-cpp-dev is already the newest version (0.41.0-0ubuntu1.1). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 107 not upgraded. Therefore, I assume I have this installed. Best

Hi, I am trying to install pdftools package on R 3.3.1 (Ubuntu 16.04), but the following issue occurs: ------------------------- ANTICONF ERROR --------------------------- Configuration failed because poppler-cpp was not found. Try installing: * deb: libpoppler-cpp-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, etc) * rpm: poppler-cpp-devel (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL) * csw: poppler_dev (Solaris) * brew: poppler (Mac OSX)

does anyone here have pointers or access to courseware that could be used to teach centos (5.4, i believe)? publicly-available, free C/W would, of course, be ideal, but if you have some decent training manuals that you're willing to license on a per-manual basis, i'm still willing to chat. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day

a couple folks on the local mailing list were asking about the mechanics of building a kernel for a centos system, and they seemed to suggest that there were some intricacies involved as opposed to other distros. i've never tried it -- is there a trick or something? got a pointer to the canonical web page that has the directions? thanks. rday --

it's been a while since i've played with filesystem encryption so, on centos 5.4 (and other linux distros), is dm-crypt/LUKS considered to be the state of the art WRT encryption? i remember other solutions like loop-aes and others, but what's considered the gold standard these days? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day

For about a week a biug stack of updates have been pending for CENTOS but I can't install them. The yum update command leads to dependency resolution in the usual way but it always ends in this: ---> Package poppler-utils.i386 0:0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11 set to be updated ---> Package xorg-x11-drv-qxl.i386 0:0.0.12-1.2.el5 set to be updated --> Running transaction check -->

it's all about the open source, baby. http://candyandaspirin.blogspot.com/2009/09/next-adventure-in-ecm-begins.html DISCLAIMER: the lady in question is a good friend of mine. but don't let that scare you off. :-) rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux

no, no, just kidding, but this is interesting: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10376762-16.html rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca

i zipped over to centos.org to check out the 5.4 manuals, and what i found was: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/ which stops at 5.2. now, i don't really see this as a problem since i can always get what i need here: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/ i'm just curious as to whether centos is just not bothering to rebrand the manuals since it's just as easy to get that info

i was looking at options for backing up mysql databases across the net, and ran across this: http://www.zmanda.com/download-zrm.php clearly, there are two rpms for linux: * MySQL-zrm-2.2.0-1.noarch.rpm * MySQL-zrm-client-2.2.0-1.noarch.rpm but on a centos 5.4 system, if i do # yum search zrm i see only "MySQL-zrm.noarch". anyone know why the centos repo would only know about

being used to mysql 5.1 on my fedora system, i'm suddenly looking after a centos 5.4 box with mysql 5.0.77. before i start digging into the mysql 5.0-5.1 changelog, do i have a lot to worry about in terms of mentally backing up one version? or is simply upgrading the centos box to mysql 5.1 an option? (i realize that mysql 5.1 is *not* officially supported in centos 5.4.) rday --

perhaps an open-ended request, but i'm looking for (if it even exists) some centos 5.4 software that will let me completely simulate the sending and reception of MMS messages on a local network which (AFAICT) would require the simulation of the MMS centre as well (MMSC). so far, i've run across (yum-installable) gammu and i'm just starting to take a look at it. but if anyone out

(sorry, i'm not *trying* to be a pain, i am merely succeeding.) once again, here: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories there's a reference to "The SerNet Samba 3 Repository" -- that link is broken, the directory structure over at http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/ has changed somewhat. also, the current dirs over there go up to samba 3.4 but, as of today,

at the risk of picking at that scab a bit longer, i'm going to toss out a comment regarding people still waiting for the public availability of centos 5.4. here: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/083743.html we read: "The last status (from twitter) is 2 days old with the '5.4 is baked! centos internal network will start syncing up today. Release ~ soon!'.

i'm prepping to teach a 5-day intro class in linux starting in about 3 hours, and the courseware is clearly designed around RHEL (apparently 5.1). but since i'm not being provided with RHEL DVDs, i'm just going to hand everyone a centos 5.4 DVD and take it from there. as part of the intro, i want to briefly discuss the varieties of linux related to RHEL, so obviously i want to

----- "Ben M." <centos at rivint.com> wrote: > Gack. I added an additional Raid1 pair to my machine just before I > planned to bring it over to the office and I did something dumb and > locked out. > > I have the pv's, vg's and lv's cleared. All I need to do is get on > root > and remove a line from fstab, but I can't get it out of read

someone just pointed out to me that there is a distro called "oracle enterprise linux" which is effectively a re-branded RHEL, so i'm curious -- has anyone here used both centos and OEL and would there be any differences that would be worth caring about? the only thing i can think of that might be worthwhile is that OEL might change some of the default kernel parms thru

just to follow on my earlier post, i have pointers to a couple commercial C/W manuals for RHEL administration, but both of them use an entire chapter discussing virtualization using Xen. i'm under the impression that RH is firmly in the KVM camp (at least for now), and that learning Xen on red hat/centos wouldn't be as useful as learning KVM. thoughts? rday --