Questions tagged [packages]
A package is a specific piece of software which can be installed and uninstalled on a system.
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Disable prompts while installing a Debian package
How can i disable totally the prompts that appear while installing a Debian package, i've used all the options that i've found but there are some packages that are still prompting.
I'm using this ...
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Official online RPM package browser / search for CentOS [closed]
I am looking for something that resembles packages.debian.org Debian Package Browser only for CentOS 5 and/or RHEL 5 [Red Hat Enterprise Linux].
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Installing Fedora RPMs in CentOS
How safe is it to install Fedora RPMs in CentOS 5? Does it depend on the version of the Fedora RPM or is it generally better to steer clear?
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How to Get a List of All Root / Main Installed Packages on Debian
Is there a way to get all "main" packages that were installed via aptitude in Debian? By "main" I mean the package names that were given to aptitude via the install command. The equivalent of a Gentoo ...
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Best practice to track custom software installations on Linux in /usr?
I'm compiling and installing software myself on Linux (Debian Squeeze in my case). Downloading, unpacking, installing dependent developer libraries/headers, running configure then make.
Up to this ...
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Can I use wildcards is puppet package ensure to cover multiple releaseversion
Using puppet I want to update packages on my (CentOS 5 & 6 servers) in a controlled way. Therefore I don't want to use ensure=>latest but rather ensure=>3.0.1-1.
Example:
class puppet::...
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DEB: "Provides:" field ignored
I need to replace a package with a custom one, which gets its own name (foo-origpackage). To allow it to be used as drop-in replacement, I added the Provides: origpackage line to the control file. apt-...
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How to manually download individual files from the OpenIndiana (or Solaris) pkg repo?
For a server in an offline environment, how would I download a package from http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev? (or the better known http://pkg.oracle.com)
There is an install link which downloads a p5i ...
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CentOS PCI Compliance assessment
We are currently working our way through a PCI compliance assessment on our server running CentOS.
We are getting a lot of 'severe' issues with suggested fixes. The suggestions to rectify the issues ...
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Couldn't find package gitolite on Ubuntu 10.04
I've been following this tutorial and I'm stuck on
sudo apt-get install gitolite
with the error
Couldn't find package gitolite
I've been Googling around for a while now, no one else seems to ...
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Install a specific package version in CentOS
I have two web servers, a production web server and a backup web server.
After running a rpm -qa on the two servers, I noticed some package discrepancies.
It seems like, someone ran a yum update at ...
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How can I verify which repository a package resides on in Centos?
I'd like to know which Centos repositories various packages are available at. Is there a directory somewhere? I tried googling it and didn't find anything.
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rkhunter reports change in file properties, but I don't see that they've been updated by yum
Maybe I'm being overcautious, but I recently received the following warnings from rkhunter:
Warning: The file properties have changed:
File: /bin/dmesg
Current hash: ...
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rebuilding packages and the package manager on debian
This is something that has been bugging me for a while, unable to find any good answers googling, hopefully someone can have a solid answer here.
It's about how to rebuild debian packages and how to ...