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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a commercially supported Linux distribution.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution targeted towards the commercial market. It is one of the successors of Red Hat Linux, together with the community-maintained Fedora.

Philosophy

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is commercially supported by Red Hat and aimed mainly at the enterprise market. It has a conservative release cycle.

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How to search for official RHEL packages

I'd like to know how to do this via the web, something similar to Debian's official package search page.
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How do I install g++ on RHEL6?

This question seems to have been asked here already. My IT department installed the OS so I don't know how to register it properly but I do have root access. Is there a way to get the same packages using the CentOS repositories maybe? I'd also like…
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What is different between Static hostname and Icon name and Pretty host name in RHEL 7

I am studying RHEL 7 and have some questions. Using hostnamectl command, I am getting information of RHEL 7 hostname and other. If i want to change hostname there are some options using hostnamectl: [root@linux7 ~]# hostnamectl set- set-chassis …
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What does "touch /.autorelabel" do when we reset the root password in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

In RHEL, after we do an rd.break, and all the procedure, and do a touch /.autorelabel, what does the /.autorelabel do?
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How to install epel-release in Red Hat linux 7.8

I am running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.8 (Maipo) and when I try to run. yum install epel-release No package epel-release available. Error: Nothing to do I need to install this for DKMS
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What distro is the most similar to RHEL 5?

I'm trying to get used to work with linux for a new job, where I will be using RHEL 5, but right now don't have $179 to buy the workstation version from Red Hat store. What free distro would be the best for me to start with while I get the money…
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How do I know that my rpm installation of a package was succesful?

I downloaded the rpm for dos2unix and installed (on RHEL 6, 64 bit) like this [root@xilinx Downloads]# rpm -ivh dos2unix-5.3.3-5.ram0.98.src.rpm 1:dos2unix warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root warning: group…
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Making the Spotify Linux client (for Debian) run on RHEL

I'm trying to convince the Spotify Linux client to run from my home directory on a RHEL 6 machine (I don't have root privs, and running the Windows client through Wine results in audio stutter since the only audio driver available is the PulseAudio…
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Packages skipped because of dependency problems:

2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 RHEL 6 Please see at the end I am getting some issues due to dependency: [root@xilinx Downloads]# yum install --skip-broken glibc* Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin There was an error parsing the RHN proxy…
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RH Security Advisory how to interpret

I'm on RHEL 7: [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.9 (Maipo) Since I have yum-plugin-security installed I'm looking for security related patches with severity =important. As per the output there's…
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What happens when RHEL 6 reaches End of Maintenance Support 2 on November 30, 2020?

I have some confusion regarding what kind of packages and updates would be available using RHEL repos on RHEL 6 once it reaches End of Maintenance Support 2 on November 30, 2020. I using the following…
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What version of Red Hat is used for the Red Hat Certified System Administrator Exam?

What version of Red Hat is used for the Red Hat Certified System Administrator Exam? Because I don't have over $3000 to invest in the Red Hat course that prepares you for the exam I am going to install Red Hat and practice all of the listed…
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Using fallocate and mkfs.ext4 can exceed available disk space

Background: We have a computer cluster and on node allocation a job gets its own tmp directory of requested size. I noticed however I could send two jobs to the same machine with total requested disk space greater than what was available. I tracked…
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Red Hat subscription-manager list: consumed and installed give different information

I am facing a subscription issue with Red Hat. The system was already subscribed to Red Hat. On 2016-12-31 that subscription ended and because it was in auto-attach mode, it "picked" some free subscriptions from Red Hat like the developer tool…
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How can I make my home Linux most closely resemble the Linux used at my school?

We have to ssh into our school's server to make sure our programming assignments work on the system that will be used to test them by the teacher. It's running RHEL 6.2. When I test my program on my Mac running RHEL 6.2 in VirtualBox, I get…
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