[cs615asa] Errors using package manager for Fedora

[smehta14]

Yep Avineshwar is right.Thanks for adding that point.

On 02/21/2016 6:21 PM, Avineshwar Singh wrote:
> Avoid yum as much as possible from now on. It's a deprecated utility,
> however, certain things are still only possible using yum so using it
> is justified.
> On Feb 21, 2016 18:19, "smehta14" <smehta14 at stevens.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Michael,
>> 
>> As this is a testing phase and only you are using the box you can
>> find out the PID by using the command ps -e and kill it. But this is
>> not advisable when it comes down to production because you will not
>> be the only user on the box and there will be many processes running
>> in the background which we do not want to kill and it even depends
>> on the case specific basis if the process is stuck it is advisable
>> to kill it.
>> 
>> Try using rpm and yum commands, explore them you will find various
>> options which will help you to achieve what you want.
>> 
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> Sonal Mehta
>> 
>>  On 02/21/2016 5:54 PM, Michael Kovalski wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I'm working on using the package manager for fedora (dnf) and it
>>> ends
>>> up freezing when trying to run the command, giving me the below
>>> output.
>>> 
>>> Fedora 23 - x86_64 - Updates                        
>>>    
>>>              23 MB/s |  19 MB     00:00 
>>> 
>>> This is all I am getting as output and then the screen is blank
>>> for
>>> the remainder until I kill the process. Here are some things that
>>> I've
>>> tried to fix the issue, with no success:
>>> 
>>> dnf clean all
>>> vi /etc/dnf/dnf.conf  -> setting fastestmirror=true
>>> 
>>> Neither of these helped. I do not believe I am using the EPEL
>>> repo
>>> since this is only for Centos but looking at results online,
>>> those are
>>> the errors I am running into. 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Michael
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