allsimple.net VPS Review

Time certainly does fly… as such this is a three month review of the VPS service at allsimple. I picked up one of their VPS via LEB to host this blog and a few bits and pieces and have been pleasantly surprised with the results.

The closest equivalent retail package would be at a somewhat [...]

Installing Git on CentOS

Git can be found in the EPEL (Fedora Project) complimentary packages repository. The command to install the package will be similar to the following

user@computer:$ rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm

Remember to sanity check this against your RHEL version…

Kubuntu: Rolling back a package

Kubuntu is currently my desktop OS of choice for 40+ hours a week of paid eye strain. It’s a good OS, basically Ubuntu with KDE as the desktop environment, however over the three or four years I’ve been using it the quality of the package management GUI applications has been somewhat variable. What we have [...]

yum update – TypeError: unsubscriptable object

Odd error when running yum update on my slice. This appears to be a currently outstanding bug which can be worked around by issuing a

user@computer:$ yum clean metadata

or

user@computer:$ yum clean all

The former worked fine for me. Original error shown below.

user@computer:$ yum updateSetting up Update ProcessResolving Dependencies–> Running transaction checkTraceback (most [...]

Slicehost CentOS 5.2 to 5.3 Upgrade (or “fun with package management one”)

One of the things about having your own little server, not really used for anything absolutely critical to anyone is that you can install updates as soon as you like. Non critical updates are one of those things that you have to do sooner or later and for non critical systems it can often be [...]