Is it possible to use RPM or YUM or any other package manager in Linux, specifically CentOS, to install a package either already downloaded or from repo to a custom location without admin/root access?

I tried building from sources, using cmake, configure, make, make install etc, but, it ended up having so many dependencies one after other.

Or are there any better alternatives?

How to install packages in Linux (CentOS) without root user with automatic dependency handling?

I&#39;ve seen the writeup on using yum to install the dependencies, and then installing Node.JS &amp; NPM from source.  While this does work, I feel like Node.JS and NPM should both be in a public repo somewhere.

How can I install Node.JS and NPM in one command on AWS Amazon Linux?

How to yum install Node.JS on Amazon Linux

I am unable to run any yum commands inside my Docker container without getting the following error:

    ovl: Error while doing RPMdb copy-up:
    [Errno 13] Permission denied: &#39;/var/lib/rpm/Group&#39;
    You need to be root to perform this command.

I&#39;m confused because I&#39;m pretty sure docker containers are run with the default user root.  Still, if I try putting sudo in front of a `yum install -y &lt;package&gt;` or `yum update -y` command I get:

    /bin/sh: sudo: command not found

I&#39;m using the following base image so I can easily run a Java Wildfly application inside Docker: https://hub.docker.com/r/jboss/wildfly/

The underlying distro is `CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)`


Can&#39;t use yum inside Docker container running on CentOS

Note: When originally posted I was trying to install maven2. Since the main answer is for maven3 I have updated the title. The rest of the question remains as it was originally posted.

I&#39;m trying to install maven2 on a redhat linux box using the command

     yum install maven2

but yum doesn&#39;t seem to be able to find maven2.

    No package maven2 available

 I&#39;ve run across other posts about this topic, but the answer to the following post suggests to add repos. I add said repos, but run into errors after adding them.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6298865/how-to-install-maven-into-red-hat-linux-enterprise-addition-6

I can only access this box via command line so simply downloading maven from their website is difficult for me.

How to install maven on redhat linux

Can&#39;t install python-dev on centos 6.5. Yum says &quot;No package python-dev available.&quot;. No graphical solutions please.

Can&#39;t install python-dev on centos 6.5

I used the usual: 

    yum install git

It did not install the latest version of git on my CentOS 6. How can I update to the latest version of git for CentOS 6? The solution can be applicable to newer versions of CentOS such as CentOS 7.

How to install latest version of git on CentOS 8.x/7.x/6.x

As an example, I am looking for a `mod_files.sh` file which presumably would come with the `php-devel` package. I guessed that `yum` would install the `mod_files.sh` file with the `php-devel x86_64 5.1.6-23.2.el5_3` package, but the file appears to not to be installed on my filesystem.

How do I find out which package installs a specific file? I&#39;m looking for where I have not necessarily already locally downloaded the package which may include the file that I&#39;m looking for.

I&#39;m using CentOS 5.

How do I find which rpm package supplies a file I&#39;m looking for?

I&#39;ve installed ffmpeg using yum under Redhat, and I&#39;m having difficulty figuring out where (what path) it installed the package to. Is there an easy way of determining this without resorting to finding it myself manually?

Determining the path that a yum package installed to

I have built two RPM packages

 - `proj1-1.0-1.x86_64.rpm`
 - `libtest1-1.0-1.x86_64.rpm`

`proj1` depends on the file `libtest1.so` being present and it is reflected correctly in the RPM packages as seen here:

    user@my-pc:~$ rpm -qp --requires proj1-1.0-1.x86_64.rpm
    libtest1.so()(64bit)

    user@my-pc:~$ rpm -qp --provides libtest1-1.0-1.x86_64.rpm
    libtest1.so()(64bit)

The installation of `proj1` fails due to a missing dependency.

    user@my-pc:~$ rpm -ivh proj1-1.0-1.x86_64.rpm
    error: Failed dependencies:
	libtest1.so()(64bit) is needed by proj1-1.0-1.x86_64.rpm

How do I ensure that `libtest1-1.0-1.x86_64.rpm` is installed automatically during
the installation of `proj1-1.0-1.x86_64.rpm`?

I did try the `--aid` option with `rpm -i` as described [here](http://www.redhat.com/advice/tips/rhce/rpm.html) but it didn&#39;t work for me.

Is there any other way?

Thanks for any help.

How to make rpm auto install dependencies

I&#39;m trying *not* to learn much about either yum or maven.  I&#39;ve inherited this code and I don&#39;t want to spend more time than I have to in this environment.

I&#39;ve got yum.  My installation &quot;has&quot; (&quot;is attached too&quot;? &quot;knows about&quot;?) two repos: the Amazon one and JPackage, which I understand is something of a standard.  (Actually, each of those repositories consists of two sub-repositories, but I don&#39;t think that&#39;s causing the problem.)

When I asked yum to install maven2, it declined, saying it had never heard of maven2.

When I asked yum to install maven2 *ignoring Amazon*, it does so, but it installs Maven 2.0.9, which is fairly old.  The actual pom.xml I have requires a higher version.

When I Google for Maven repositories I get repositories that Maven can use to build other things, not repositories that Yum can use to install Maven.  (I did find a repository containing thing that let Maven build Yum.  I think Google is mocking me at this point.)

So, all I need is the repo *file* that points to a repo that contains whatever I need to install Maven 2.2.1. 

If it weren&#39;t for all these labor-saving devices, I could probably get some work done.

How do I install Maven with Yum?

I&#39;m trying to update Orion ContextBroker using the command yum install contextBroker. Unfortunatelly I get the following error: 

&gt; Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security Loading
&gt; 
&gt; mirror speeds from cached hostfile
&gt;
&gt; Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel. Please verify
&gt; its path and try again

What could be going wrong ?





yum error &quot;Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel. Please verify its path and try again&quot; updating ContextBroker

I am using CentOS 7.2

When I use `yum groupinstall &quot;Development Tools&quot;`, gcc version is 4.8.5, like this:   
   
[![enter image description here][1]][1]   

I would like to install gcc 5.3

How to approach this with `yum`?


  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/AdvlD.png

How to Install gcc 5.3 with yum on CentOS 7.2?

I installed the newer version of python (3.2.3) than the one available in Fedora16 (python2.7)

And now `yum` stops working. It shows the following error.

    [root@localhost yum-3.4.3]# yum
      File &quot;/usr/bin/yum&quot;, line 30
       except KeyboardInterrupt, e:
                               ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Please advice as how to resolve the error. It would be helpful as I am not able to update or install any package.


Yum crashed with Keyboard Interrupt error

I want to list all packages I have installed on a system from a given repo using yum. Usually to do this I use `yum list installed | grep &quot;something&quot;`. But now I am faced with a problem. The repo I am interested in does not have that &quot;something&quot; for me to grep. The packages from that repo do not have any distinctive characteristics. How do I list them? 

I looked through yum man pages but did not find anything. I wonder if there are other commands I could use.


How to list installed packages from a given repo using yum

I am using Amazon&#39;s tutorial for [installing a LAMP server][1]. The first several instructions involve using `yum`, but every single way I have tried to do it has resulted in the same message. I have found a few other recent questions about the same issue, none of which change anything on my setup.

Here is the message:

    Loaded plugins: priorities, update-motd, upgrade-helper
    Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://repo.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/latest/main/mirror.list error was
    12: Timeout on http://repo.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/latest/main/mirror.list: (28, &#39;Connection timed out after 10001 milliseconds&#39;)


    One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown),
    and yum doesn&#39;t have enough cached data to continue. At this point the only
    safe thing yum can do is fail. There are a few ways to work &quot;fix&quot; this:

     1. Contact the upstream for the repository and get them to fix the problem.

     2. Reconfigure the baseurl/etc. for the repository, to point to a working
        upstream. This is most often useful if you are using a newer
        distribution release than is supported by the repository (and the
        packages for the previous distribution release still work).

     3. Disable the repository, so yum won&#39;t use it by default. Yum will then
        just ignore the repository until you permanently enable it again or use
        --enablerepo for temporary usage:

            yum-config-manager --disable &lt;repoid&gt;

     4. Configure the failing repository to be skipped, if it is unavailable.
        Note that yum will try to contact the repo. when it runs most commands,
        so will have to try and fail each time (and thus. yum will be be much
        slower). If it is a very temporary problem though, this is often a nice
        compromise:

            yum-config-manager --save --setopt=&lt;repoid&gt;.skip_if_unavailable=true

     Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: amzn-main/latest

I have done this same thing before without running into any problems, using the same tutorial, but it was several months ago. I don&#39;t know what has changed but my meager experience is keeping me from figuring it out.

  [1]: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/install-LAMP.html

Amazon EC2 instance can&#39;t update or use yum

I&#39;m trying to update my PHP (currently v:5.3.3 to the latest stable PHP build) but it&#39;s not playing ball and it&#39;s saying there is nothing to update.

Any help would be useful.

Keeps saying:

&gt; No Packages marked for Update

Upgrading PHP on CentOS 6.5 (Final)

I know how to use rpm to list the contents of a package (`rpm -qpil package.rpm`). However, this requires knowing the location of the .rpm file on the filesystem. A more elegant solution would be to use the package manager, which in my case is YUM. How can YUM be used to achieve this?

How to list the contents of a package using YUM?

I installed MariaDB on CentOS 7 but I had some problems with some configuration, now it is completely misconfigured. 

Thus, I wanted to remove the MariaDB with “yum remove mariadb mariadb-server”, after that I reinstalled it with “yum install mariadb mariadb-server”.

Unfortunately, the configuration remains. It seems as if yum remove don’t delete all MariaDB Config-Files.

How can I remove MariaDB completely from CentOS 7?


Completely remove MariaDB or MySQL from CentOS 7 or RHEL 7

I recently installed Python 2.7.3 on a CentOS machine by compiling from source. Python 2.7.3 is installed at /opt/python2.7 and when I installed it I just changed /usr/bin/python to point to the new version. This apparently is wrong though because when I did it it broke yum. I would get the following.

    There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
    required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

       No module named yum

    Please install a package which provides this module, or
    verify that the module is installed correctly.

    It&#39;s possible that the above module doesn&#39;t match the
    current version of Python, which is:
    2.7.3 (default, May 15 2012, 17:45:42) 
    [GCC 4.4.4 20100726 (Red Hat 4.4.4-13)]

    If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to 
    the yum faq at:
      http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/Faq


I changed /usr/bin/python to point back to the python 2.6.6 but now 2.6.6 is the default version of python. Any idea how to fix this?

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How to install packages in Linux (CentOS) without root user with automatic dependency handling?

How to yum install Node.JS on Amazon Linux

Can't use yum inside Docker container running on CentOS

How to install maven on redhat linux

Can't install python-dev on centos 6.5