Tag Archives: CentOS

Cacti Install on RHEL 5 or CentOS 5

Introduction Cacti is a great tool to graph performance of the various hardware components of a network. With the use of the yum repository manager, it is very simple to install on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or CentOS 5. … Continue reading

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Setting up shared VMWare Fusion host folders on CentOS and RHEL guest

Problem How to view folders from the Mac that hosts the VMWare Fusion guest operating system CentOS or Red Hat Linux? Solution First, make sure that the VMWare Tools are installed. That always helps. Next, in the WMWare configuration menu … Continue reading

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Fixing Yum dependency problems on RedHat Linux and CentOS

Yum update fails I see the question of failed dependencies come up on forums quite a bit. Users post errors like: Missing Dependency: bind-utils = 9.3.4-10.P1.el5_3.1 is needed bind-sdb-9.3.4-10.P1.el5_3.1 or ImageMagick-perl-6.2.8.0-4.el5_1.1.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems –> Missing Dependency: /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi … Continue reading

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