Linux RedHat / CentOS / Fedora : Uninstall a package along with dependencies

If you’ve been wondering how to delete a package you mistakenly installed (or which is no longer needed) along with all its dependencies, here’s a neat way to achieve just that.

The idea is that whenever you use yum to perform some operation on packages, a transaction is created. If you installed a package along with its dependencies, then you can undo just that by undoing that transaction.

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Linux : Clusters, Vitualization, High Availability, Load balancing

I’m back from a 3-day-training about clusters with Linux which was pretty exciting, and here are the main points which were covered :

  • Vitualization with Xen
  • Sharing data with GFS / GNBD
  • Clusters with RedHat Cluster Suite
  • Load Balancing with Linux Virtual Server (LVS)

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