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Setup Redhat 7.3 Legacy Updates |
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Redhat 7.3 has reached End of Life officially with Red Hat.
The Fedora Legacy Project still releases security patches and bug fixes due to community interest.
The instructions below show how to configure Redhat 7.3 to make use of the Fedora Legacy repository and install yum for updating the system.
Note Instrucitons for Rehdat 9 are also available here Instructions for Fedora Core 1 are available here
Instructions for Fedora Core 2 are available here Instructions for Fedora Core 3 are available here
# service rhnsd stop
# chkconfig rhnsd off
(Note check no rpm processes running, kill if necessary)
# ps -ef |grep rpm
# cd /tmp
# wget http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/7.3/os/i386/popt-1.6.4-7x.18.i386.rpm
# wget http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/7.3/os/i386/rpm-4.0.4-7x.18.i386.rpm
# wget http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/7.3/os/i386/rpm-build-4.0.4-7x.18.i386.rpm
#wget http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/7.3/os/i386/rpm-devel-4.0.4-7x.18.i386.rpm
#wget http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/7.3/os/i386/rpm-python-4.0.4-7x.18.i386.rpm
# rpm -Fvh rpm*i386.rpm popt*i386.rpm
# wget http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/7.3/legacy-utils/i386/yum-1.0.3-6.0.7.x.legacy.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh yum-1.0.3-6.0.7.x.legacy.noarch.rpm
# wget http://www.fedoralegacy.org/FEDORA-LEGACY-GPG-KEY
# gpg --import FEDORA-LEGACY-GPG-KEY
# cp /etc/yum.conf /etc/yum.conf.listall
# vi /etc/yum.conf.listall
change exclude=kernel* to exclude=
If you are game download this script and it will perform the above commands for you automatically.
Yum Notes:
to check all packages including kernel....
# yum -c /etc/yum.conf.listall list updates
to update packages....
# yum update
to clean package cache....
# yum clean packages
to search for a package....
# yum search <packagename>
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