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Must have Yum Plugin: fastestmirror

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 
Yum always gets stuck on dead mirrors or slow mirrors. Avoid this by installing yum-fastestmirror

yum install yum-fastestmirror
yum clean all
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RPM Package List Without Version Info

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

rpm -qa --qf “%{NAME}\n”  > /tmp/installed-packages.log

To install those packages, run:

yum install -y $(cat /tmp/installed-packages.log)

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