How To Find the RHEL/CentOS Release Version on Amazon Linux

Author: , September 9th, 2014

rpm -qa | grep epel-release | awk -F- ‘{print $3}’ Examples: RHEL5/Centos5 root@aws1:/root # cat /etc/issue Amazon Linux AMI release 2010.11.2 (beta) root@aws1:/root # rpm -qa | grep epel-release epel-release-5-4.noarch root@aws1:/root # rpm -qa | grep epel-release | awk -F- ‘{print $3}’ 5 RHEL6/Centos6 root@aws2:/root # cat /etc/issue Amazon Linux AMI release 2013.09 root@aws2:/root # […]

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How To Get yum To Use A Different Release Version

Author: , September 4th, 2011

/etc/yum.repos.d # yum –releasever=5 search {package name here}

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