Tag Archives: rpm

samba, libidn, and dnf

Posted on May 16, 2016 by The Civilized Cynic

So, I encountered an interesting mystery. My system whose sole purpose in life is to run Plex Media Server (plexmediaserver-0.9.15.2.1663-7efd046.x86_64.rpm at the time this issue was encountered) somehow wound up with an utterly broken dnf package manager.  Now, I have … Continue reading →

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The Glorious rpm –rollback Option

Posted on April 9, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

So, at work, someone (me) might’ve decided to go ahead and apply updates to a development system regardless of the vendor’s slowness in coming up with a patch support plan.  This might’ve caused some (quickly remediated) destruction. So I’m here to discuss the … Continue reading →

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