epel

NTFS Support on CentOS 7 1

 in GNU/Linux  tagged CentOS / epel / ntfs / ntfs-3g by

Solution


sudo yum --enablerepo=extras install epel-release;
sudo yum install ntfs-3g -y;

Background – Explanation of commands

By default, CentOS does not have installed the necessary drivers to mount ntfs drives.

sudo yum --enablerepo=extras install epel-release;

To install them, you need to enable the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL).

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS and Scientific Linux (SL), Oracle Linux (OL).

EPEL packages are usually based on their Fedora counterparts and will never conflict with or replace packages in the base Enterprise Linux distributions. EPEL uses much of the same infrastructure as Fedora, including buildsystem, bugzilla instance, updates manager, mirror manager and more.

From: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

You can install EPEL by running yum --enablerepo=extras install epel-release. The epel-release package is included in the CentOS Extras repository that is enabled by default. The package includes gpg keys for package signing and repository information. Installing this package for your Enterprise Linux version should allow you to use normal tools such as yum to install packages and their dependencies.

sudo yum install ntfs-3g -y;

After you’ve enabled the repository, you should be able to install the Linux NTFS userspace driver packaged in ntfs-3g. ntfs-3g is a stable, open source, GPL licensed, POSIX, read/write NTFS driver for Linux and many other operating systems. It provides safe handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 NTFS file systems. NTFS-3G can create, remove, rename, move files, directories, hard links, and streams; it can read and write normal and transparently compressed files, including streams and sparse files; it can handle special files like symbolic links, devices, and FIFOs, ACL, extended attributes; moreover it provides full file access right and ownership support.

To install it, we used the following command: yum install ntfs-3g -y.

Install terminator in CentOS 7 (64bit) 2

 in GNU/Linux  tagged CentOS / epel / terminator by

We installed CentOS 7 (64bit) using this ISO, which we downloaded from http://vault.centos.org/7.1.1503/isos/x86_64/

Once we got the OS started, we executed yum update -y to update all installed packages that were older than the versions in the repositories.
After the update process was complete, we then tried to install terminator using yum.

The Problem

Executing yum install -y terminator resulted in an error:

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
Setting up Install Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.us.leaseweb.net
* extras: mirror.us.leaseweb.net
* updates: mirror.us.leaseweb.net
No package terminator available.
Error: Nothing to do

Solution

To solve the problem we needed to install the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository using yum install -y epel-release.

After the installation was done, we executed yum install -y terminator once more and the installation of terminator succeeded.

Example Logs

Following is the full log from the terminal, showing the correct completion of the installation

[root@localhost bytefreaks]# yum install terminator
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirror.us.leaseweb.net
 * extras: mirror.us.leaseweb.net
 * updates: mirror.us.leaseweb.net
No package terminator available.
Error: Nothing to do
[root@localhost bytefreaks]# yum install -y epel-release
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirror.us.leaseweb.net
 * extras: mirror.us.leaseweb.net
 * updates: mirror.us.leaseweb.net
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package epel-release.noarch 0:7-6 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================================================
 Package                        Arch                     Version                 Repository                Size
================================================================================================================
Installing:
 epel-release                   noarch                   7-6                     extras                    14 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total download size: 14 k
Installed size: 24 k
Downloading packages:
epel-release-7-6.noarch.rpm                                                              |  14 kB  00:00:00     
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
  Installing : epel-release-7-6.noarch                                                                      1/1 
  Verifying  : epel-release-7-6.noarch                                                                      1/1 

Installed:
  epel-release.noarch 0:7-6                                                                                     

Complete!
[root@localhost bytefreaks]# yum install terminator -y
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
epel/x86_64/metalink                                                                     |  23 kB  00:00:00     
epel                                                                                     | 4.3 kB  00:00:00     
(1/3): epel/x86_64/group_gz                                                              | 170 kB  00:00:01     
epel/x86_64/primary_db         FAILED                                          
https://ftp.fau.de/epel/7/x86_64/repodata/e11482622ec75721199897552409e0b0b1d6fd798be905c88014f539d027efec-primary.sqlite.xz: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found
Trying other mirror.
To address this issue please refer to the below knowledge base article 

https://access.redhat.com/articles/1320623

If above article doesn't help to resolve this issue please create a bug on https://bugs.centos.org/

(2/3): epel/x86_64/primary_db                                                            | 4.3 MB  00:00:12     
(3/3): epel/x86_64/updateinfo                                                            | 674 kB  00:00:18     
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirror.us.leaseweb.net
 * epel: mirror.de.leaseweb.net
 * extras: mirror.us.leaseweb.net
 * updates: mirror.us.leaseweb.net
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package terminator.noarch 0:0.98-3.el7 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: vte for package: terminator-0.98-3.el7.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: python-psutil for package: terminator-0.98-3.el7.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: python-keybinder for package: terminator-0.98-3.el7.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: gnome-python2-gconf for package: terminator-0.98-3.el7.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: gnome-python2-bonobo for package: terminator-0.98-3.el7.noarch
--> Running transaction check
---> Package gnome-python2-bonobo.x86_64 0:2.28.1-14.el7 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: gnome-python2-canvas(x86-64) = 2.28.1-14.el7 for package: gnome-python2-bonobo-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: gnome-python2(x86-64) = 2.28.1-14.el7 for package: gnome-python2-bonobo-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: pyorbit(x86-64) >= 2.0.1 for package: gnome-python2-bonobo-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libbonoboui(x86-64) >= 2.8.0 for package: gnome-python2-bonobo-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libbonobo(x86-64) >= 2.8.0 for package: gnome-python2-bonobo-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libgnomecanvas-2.so.0()(64bit) for package: gnome-python2-bonobo-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libgnome-2.so.0()(64bit) for package: gnome-python2-bonobo-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libbonoboui-2.so.0()(64bit) for package: gnome-python2-bonobo-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libbonobo-activation.so.4()(64bit) for package: gnome-python2-bonobo-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libbonobo-2.so.0()(64bit) for package: gnome-python2-bonobo-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libart_lgpl_2.so.2()(64bit) for package: gnome-python2-bonobo-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libORBit-2.so.0()(64bit) for package: gnome-python2-bonobo-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64
---> Package gnome-python2-gconf.x86_64 0:2.28.1-14.el7 will be installed
---> Package python-keybinder.x86_64 0:0.3.1-1.el7 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: keybinder = 0.3.1-1.el7 for package: python-keybinder-0.3.1-1.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libkeybinder.so.0()(64bit) for package: python-keybinder-0.3.1-1.el7.x86_64
---> Package python-psutil.x86_64 0:2.2.1-1.el7 will be installed
---> Package vte.x86_64 0:0.28.2-10.el7 will be installed
--> Running transaction check
---> Package ORBit2.x86_64 0:2.14.19-13.el7 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libIDL-2.so.0()(64bit) for package: ORBit2-2.14.19-13.el7.x86_64
---> Package gnome-python2.x86_64 0:2.28.1-14.el7 will be installed
---> Package gnome-python2-canvas.x86_64 0:2.28.1-14.el7 will be installed
---> Package keybinder.x86_64 0:0.3.1-1.el7 will be installed
---> Package libart_lgpl.x86_64 0:2.3.21-10.el7 will be installed
---> Package libbonobo.x86_64 0:2.32.1-7.el7 will be installed
---> Package libbonoboui.x86_64 0:2.24.5-7.el7 will be installed
---> Package libgnome.x86_64 0:2.32.1-9.el7 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libgnomevfs-2.so.0()(64bit) for package: libgnome-2.32.1-9.el7.x86_64
---> Package libgnomecanvas.x86_64 0:2.30.3-8.el7 will be installed
---> Package pyorbit.x86_64 0:2.24.0-15.el7 will be installed
--> Running transaction check
---> Package gnome-vfs2.x86_64 0:2.24.4-14.el7 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libfam.so.0()(64bit) for package: gnome-vfs2-2.24.4-14.el7.x86_64
---> Package libIDL.x86_64 0:0.8.14-8.el7 will be installed
--> Running transaction check
---> Package gamin.x86_64 0:0.1.10-16.el7 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================================================
 Package                            Arch                 Version                       Repository          Size
================================================================================================================
Installing:
 terminator                         noarch               0.98-3.el7                    epel               3.4 M
Installing for dependencies:
 ORBit2                             x86_64               2.14.19-13.el7                base               176 k
 gamin                              x86_64               0.1.10-16.el7                 base               128 k
 gnome-python2                      x86_64               2.28.1-14.el7                 base                47 k
 gnome-python2-bonobo               x86_64               2.28.1-14.el7                 base                87 k
 gnome-python2-canvas               x86_64               2.28.1-14.el7                 base                34 k
 gnome-python2-gconf                x86_64               2.28.1-14.el7                 base                46 k
 gnome-vfs2                         x86_64               2.24.4-14.el7                 base               839 k
 keybinder                          x86_64               0.3.1-1.el7                   epel                15 k
 libIDL                             x86_64               0.8.14-8.el7                  base                87 k
 libart_lgpl                        x86_64               2.3.21-10.el7                 base                67 k
 libbonobo                          x86_64               2.32.1-7.el7                  base               437 k
 libbonoboui                        x86_64               2.24.5-7.el7                  base               342 k
 libgnome                           x86_64               2.32.1-9.el7                  base               741 k
 libgnomecanvas                     x86_64               2.30.3-8.el7                  base               226 k
 pyorbit                            x86_64               2.24.0-15.el7                 base                51 k
 python-keybinder                   x86_64               0.3.1-1.el7                   epel                19 k
 python-psutil                      x86_64               2.2.1-1.el7                   epel               114 k
 vte                                x86_64               0.28.2-10.el7                 epel               361 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================================================
Install  1 Package (+18 Dependent packages)

Total download size: 7.1 M
Installed size: 27 M
Downloading packages:
(1/19): gnome-python2-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64.rpm                                           |  47 kB  00:00:02     
(2/19): gnome-python2-canvas-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64.rpm                                    |  34 kB  00:00:02     
(3/19): ORBit2-2.14.19-13.el7.x86_64.rpm                                                 | 176 kB  00:00:02     
(4/19): gnome-python2-gconf-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64.rpm                                     |  46 kB  00:00:01     
(5/19): libIDL-0.8.14-8.el7.x86_64.rpm                                                   |  87 kB  00:00:00     
warning: /var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/epel/packages/keybinder-0.3.1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 352c64e5: NOKEY
Public key for keybinder-0.3.1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm is not installed
(6/19): keybinder-0.3.1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm                                                 |  15 kB  00:00:02     
(7/19): libart_lgpl-2.3.21-10.el7.x86_64.rpm                                             |  67 kB  00:00:01     
(8/19): gnome-vfs2-2.24.4-14.el7.x86_64.rpm                                              | 839 kB  00:00:03     
(9/19): gamin-0.1.10-16.el7.x86_64.rpm                                                   | 128 kB  00:00:07     
(10/19): libgnome-2.32.1-9.el7.x86_64.rpm                                                | 741 kB  00:00:01     
(11/19): libbonoboui-2.24.5-7.el7.x86_64.rpm                                             | 342 kB  00:00:02     
(12/19): pyorbit-2.24.0-15.el7.x86_64.rpm                                                |  51 kB  00:00:00     
(13/19): libbonobo-2.32.1-7.el7.x86_64.rpm                                               | 437 kB  00:00:02     
(14/19): python-keybinder-0.3.1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm                                         |  19 kB  00:00:00     
(15/19): gnome-python2-bonobo-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64.rpm                                   |  87 kB  00:00:08     
(16/19): python-psutil-2.2.1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm                                            | 114 kB  00:00:00     
(17/19): vte-0.28.2-10.el7.x86_64.rpm                                                    | 361 kB  00:00:01     
(18/19): libgnomecanvas-2.30.3-8.el7.x86_64.rpm                                          | 226 kB  00:00:03     
(19/19): terminator-0.98-3.el7.noarch.rpm                                                | 3.4 MB  00:00:05     
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                                                           524 kB/s | 7.1 MB  00:00:13     
Retrieving key from file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7
Importing GPG key 0x352C64E5:
 Userid     : "Fedora EPEL (7) <[email protected]>"
 Fingerprint: 91e9 7d7c 4a5e 96f1 7f3e 888f 6a2f aea2 352c 64e5
 Package    : epel-release-7-6.noarch (@extras)
 From       : /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
  Installing : libart_lgpl-2.3.21-10.el7.x86_64                                                            1/19 
  Installing : libgnomecanvas-2.30.3-8.el7.x86_64                                                          2/19 
  Installing : gnome-python2-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64                                                          3/19 
  Installing : libIDL-0.8.14-8.el7.x86_64                                                                  4/19 
  Installing : ORBit2-2.14.19-13.el7.x86_64                                                                5/19 
  Installing : libbonobo-2.32.1-7.el7.x86_64                                                               6/19 
  Installing : pyorbit-2.24.0-15.el7.x86_64                                                                7/19 
  Installing : gnome-python2-gconf-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64                                                    8/19 
  Installing : gnome-python2-canvas-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64                                                   9/19 
  Installing : vte-0.28.2-10.el7.x86_64                                                                   10/19 
  Installing : keybinder-0.3.1-1.el7.x86_64                                                               11/19 
  Installing : python-keybinder-0.3.1-1.el7.x86_64                                                        12/19 
  Installing : python-psutil-2.2.1-1.el7.x86_64                                                           13/19 
  Installing : gamin-0.1.10-16.el7.x86_64                                                                 14/19 
  Installing : gnome-vfs2-2.24.4-14.el7.x86_64                                                            15/19 
  Installing : libgnome-2.32.1-9.el7.x86_64                                                               16/19 
  Installing : libbonoboui-2.24.5-7.el7.x86_64                                                            17/19 
  Installing : gnome-python2-bonobo-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64                                                  18/19 
  Installing : terminator-0.98-3.el7.noarch                                                               19/19 
  Verifying  : libbonobo-2.32.1-7.el7.x86_64                                                               1/19 
  Verifying  : libgnome-2.32.1-9.el7.x86_64                                                                2/19 
  Verifying  : libgnomecanvas-2.30.3-8.el7.x86_64                                                          3/19 
  Verifying  : gamin-0.1.10-16.el7.x86_64                                                                  4/19 
  Verifying  : libIDL-0.8.14-8.el7.x86_64                                                                  5/19 
  Verifying  : gnome-python2-gconf-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64                                                    6/19 
  Verifying  : gnome-python2-canvas-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64                                                   7/19 
  Verifying  : python-psutil-2.2.1-1.el7.x86_64                                                            8/19 
  Verifying  : keybinder-0.3.1-1.el7.x86_64                                                                9/19 
  Verifying  : terminator-0.98-3.el7.noarch                                                               10/19 
  Verifying  : python-keybinder-0.3.1-1.el7.x86_64                                                        11/19 
  Verifying  : libbonoboui-2.24.5-7.el7.x86_64                                                            12/19 
  Verifying  : vte-0.28.2-10.el7.x86_64                                                                   13/19 
  Verifying  : gnome-vfs2-2.24.4-14.el7.x86_64                                                            14/19 
  Verifying  : ORBit2-2.14.19-13.el7.x86_64                                                               15/19 
  Verifying  : pyorbit-2.24.0-15.el7.x86_64                                                               16/19 
  Verifying  : gnome-python2-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64                                                         17/19 
  Verifying  : gnome-python2-bonobo-2.28.1-14.el7.x86_64                                                  18/19 
  Verifying  : libart_lgpl-2.3.21-10.el7.x86_64                                                           19/19 

Installed:
  terminator.noarch 0:0.98-3.el7                                                                                

Dependency Installed:
  ORBit2.x86_64 0:2.14.19-13.el7                         gamin.x86_64 0:0.1.10-16.el7                          
  gnome-python2.x86_64 0:2.28.1-14.el7                   gnome-python2-bonobo.x86_64 0:2.28.1-14.el7           
  gnome-python2-canvas.x86_64 0:2.28.1-14.el7            gnome-python2-gconf.x86_64 0:2.28.1-14.el7            
  gnome-vfs2.x86_64 0:2.24.4-14.el7                      keybinder.x86_64 0:0.3.1-1.el7                        
  libIDL.x86_64 0:0.8.14-8.el7                           libart_lgpl.x86_64 0:2.3.21-10.el7                    
  libbonobo.x86_64 0:2.32.1-7.el7                        libbonoboui.x86_64 0:2.24.5-7.el7                     
  libgnome.x86_64 0:2.32.1-9.el7                         libgnomecanvas.x86_64 0:2.30.3-8.el7                  
  pyorbit.x86_64 0:2.24.0-15.el7                         python-keybinder.x86_64 0:0.3.1-1.el7                 
  python-psutil.x86_64 0:2.2.1-1.el7                     vte.x86_64 0:0.28.2-10.el7                            

Complete!

Install terminator in CentOS 6.5 (64bit)

 in GNU/Linux  tagged CentOS / epel / terminator by

We installed CentOS 6.5 (64bit) using this ISO, which we downloaded from http://vault.centos.org/6.5/isos/x86_64/

Once we got the OS started, we executed yum update -y to update all installed packages that were older than the versions in the repositories.
After the update process was complete, we then tried to install terminator using yum.

Executing yum install -y terminator resulted in an error:

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
Setting up Install Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.us.leaseweb.net
* extras: mirror.us.leaseweb.net
* updates: mirror.us.leaseweb.net
No package terminator available.
Error: Nothing to do

To solve the problem we needed to install the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository using yum install -y epel-release.

After the installation was done, we executed yum install -y terminator once more and the installation of terminator succeeded.