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>I did a "yum provides xbindkeys" and it does not find the package? >Where can I find xbindkeys? >Thanks >Jerry I found it... I was expecting it to be in that big yum repository in the sky but it wasnt. binding keys works like a champ with this. Jerry

I am following directions in http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/KVM#head-c02a0b33e7949b0bc3b151ac6e0bdfb91b6bbd1c it says do yum install bridge-utils - works fine, they yum install tunctl does not find anything. yum provides "*/tunctl" does not find anything I am using 5.4 x86_64. Is this howto out of date? How do I get tunctl? Thanks, Jerry

Hi all, How do you trap key strobes in centos before they are handed off to an application? In X windows I dont care what app is running or which app has focus. I need to know what key is pressed. The key can still go on to the application that is fine. I just need to know what keys are being pressed. I have tried xbindkeys but depending on which app is running I may or may not get my

I am doing a yum install netconfig on the new 5.1 and nothing gets installed. Was it removed? replaced with something else? yum provides netconfig does not show a "bin" command just false matches. Is there a new command? Thanks, Jerry

I am wanting to use the mkfs.hfsplus as mentioned here http://www.oli.id.au/createosxdmgdiskimagesinlinux but I dont have the command. yum provides "*/mkfs.hfsplus" returns no packages found. Where do I find this command? Thanks. Jerry

Is there a cisco vpn client for linux centso 5 AMD 64 bit? Using google it talks about cisco vpn client but everyplace to download is blocked. I then found a vpnc reference but did not find a 64 bit version. yum install vpnc did nothing.... What is my next step? Jerry

Hi all, Hey I'm trying to do some web cam stuff, and I found this link: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libv4l/releases/333037 I was doing the "rpm -qa | grep v4l" and nothing comes up, I did "ls path_to_centos/RPMS/* | grep v4l " and nothing comes up, I did 'yum provides "*/libv4l*"' and nothing comes up. Is the CentOS library for v4l named something

I tried to do a "yum install bind" and it said no packages found I then tried up2date bind and it installed bind for me. Is yum not completely setup correctly? Just thought th yum install bind would have worked also. I am using centos 4.3 x86_64. DNS was not selected as package to install when my system was built. Jerry

I used xview in 5.2 from package xloadimage. This doesnt seem to be present in 5.3 Has it moved to a different package? yum provides "*/xview" didnt return anything. Jerry

When I do the following: yum install perl-XML-Parser I get all these errors. Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * addons: mirror.sanctuaryhost.com * base: centos.cs.wisc.edu * extras: mirror.trouble-free.net * updates: mirrors.serveraxis.net Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?

What are the chances that a package such as vlc from http://videolan.org/vlc would become included in extras? so a yum install vlc would work. Thanks, Jerry

I am trying to setup a centos 7.1 vncserver I cannot believe they went from a relatively easy process in 6 to the "crazyness" that is 7. I did the following: yum install tigervnc-server cp /lib/systemd/system/vncserver at .service /etc/systemd/system systemctl daemon-reload edit /etc/systemd.system/vncserver at .service

I installed a gcvs package today. I tried to then run gcvs and I get this error: gcvs: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory rpm -qa | grep libgtk returns nothing. yum install libgtk returns Nothing to do. What am I missing? Jerry

On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 8:06 AM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote: > | What is your graphics card model? > NVIDIA Corporation GK208 [GeForce GT 720] This does 4K > > | Which driver are you using? > I am using the NOUVEAU at this time > I would suggest trying the NVIDIA proprietary driver from the ELRepo rpm --import

Hey on Centos 5 hfsplus.ko is part of the Kernel: kernel-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.x86_64 : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system) Repo : installed Matched from: Filename : /lib/modules/2.6.18-238.12.1.el5/kernel/fs/hfsplus/hfsplus.ko doing a yum provides "*/hfsplus.ko" on CentOS 6 finds nothing. What happened to hfsplus.ko on Centos 6? Thanks, Jerry

Hi all. I am looking for some command line programs (pre made) that will connect to an ldap server and list out the users in question provided by the search argument given. I found some mention of it from oracle but I did not see where they can be downloaded. Is something like this available and I just havent found them? Thanks, Jerry

I am testing the likelyhood of updating a couple RH9 systems to centos 5 386. I found at document that talked about updating to centos 4. steps being: 1.) backup 2.) rpm --import http://pubmirrors.reflected.net/centos/5/os/i386/RPM-GPG-KEY-centOS-5 rpm -Uvh --nodeps http://pubmirrors.reflected.net/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/yum-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.5.noarch.rpm

I was doing a yum update today. It downloaded all the packages. was doing the next part and my remote connection was lost. so ssh session was killed. When I logged back in I am not sure if the update is done or not. I presume not. I presume it died with my remote session. I do a yum update now and it returns as if there is nothing to update. last I saw it was 30 out of 312 in the installation

I was just wondering if there are special tricks people do that compile A LOT on centos? Do RAM disks help or something else I dont about that minimizes your compile time? I presently have and AMD x2 4800+ with 2GIG ram. Just curious if I can reduce any more time out of my compiles. Jerry

Hi all, When I am installing I use kickstart and have a line like: repo --name=Updates --baseurl=http://192.168.1.14/centos/5.6/updates/x86_64/ and that works great for installing the OS. After that the machine reboots and I have it automatically go into additional installations running scripts. These installations do "yum install XXX". However, its no longer using my above repo