Centos – Is subscription-manager available for CentOS

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I'm trying to fix my updater to point to a specific release. Is the subscription-manager for RedHat only? I don't see it in my CentOS 6.3 (yum) repository.

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The subscription-manager tool is Red Hat-specific, allowing you to manage Red Hat subscriptions. Since CentOS doesn't have subscriptions, CentOS 6 omitted this tool.

CentOS 7 now includes subscription-manager, which you can use with Red Hat Satellite or its open source versions Spacewalk or Foreman/Katello.

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Centos – log4cxx for CentOS 6

In these cases, I perform a quick check for the package on RPMFind.net and rpm.pbone.net. If neither return a result for my distribution, chances are that a precompiled RPM is not available.

You can compile log4cxx from the Fedora source repository, though.

In order to build an SRPM, you'll pretty much need to download the .srpm or .src.rpm file. From there, you can run rpmbuild --rebuild filename.src.rpm and the compilation process should result in a usable binary package.

I took a spare CentOS 6 system and ran the download using this log4cxx source RPM package and compiled:

There was a dependency on apr-devel and apr-util-devel, but aside from that, the log4cxx built without incident.

# rpmbuild  --rebuild log4cxx-0.10.0-13.fc18.src.rpm 
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...fancy compilation output...
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Wrote: /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/log4cxx-0.10.0-13.el6.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/log4cxx-debuginfo-0.10.0-13.el6.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/log4cxx-devel-0.10.0-13.el6.x86_64.rpm

From there, install the resultant RPM's and you're good to go.

Centos – How to update Tomcat on Centos 6.3

Your yum info command is the best way to see what version is in the Centos repos.
Just because there is a Tomcat update may not mean there is one available in the repos. It will need to be added to the repo first before you can update it.
You could see about adding Centos-Fasttrack or Testing repos, however it will update everything it has available. So if you just want to keep tomcat up to date you may want to search the repos http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.3/ or get the binary straight from Apache http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi

Overall it may be best to wait until it is in the Centos Repo. Building from the source or binary means you are on the bleeding edge and an issue may creep up for your distro.

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