Questions tagged [packages]
A package is a specific piece of software which can be installed and uninstalled on a system.
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How to completely remove a package in Ubuntu (like it never existed)
When I remove a package in Ubuntu using apt-get remove package, it always seems to leave behind a lot of files... for example, log files in /var/log, config files in /etc, data in /var/lib, etc.
How ...
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Advice on Server Solution for small business? [duplicate]
We are a small business looking to change server and I am not the most knowledgeable in this field so I was hoping some of you had some suggestions or some knowledge and expertise that can at least ...
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How to Create Yum Cache Server for client machines in LAN
Like in Ubuntu we have the option of creating "Ubuntu update cache server" which downloads and update packages directly from internet and serves other client ubuntu machines for installing/updating ...
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How to upgrade a package in Debian 8?
I'm using a docker image that comes with Debian 8 (jessie). I'm trying to upgrade curl package to the latest (7.58) from 7.38.
Running apt-cache showpkg curl shows that 7.38 is the latest version, ...
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RHEL "el7" vs "el7a" on packages?
I have built an RPM on RHEL7 ppc64le and it got the suffix "el7a" as opposed to "el7" which I expected. Why is that and what does the "a" stand for?
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Linker error in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
Our machine was in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 until when we recently moved to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3.
Our C++ tools were compiling without any problem on SuSe 11. But when we ...
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No packages matching ** is available in ansible
I'm trying to install a list of packages with ansible, and I can't seem to understand what the problem is.
- name: Add PHP 7.2 repo
apt_repository:
repo: ppa:ondrej/php
state: ...
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Unable to install any packages even after enabling remi or adding other mirrors
I'm trying to install the php-xml package. I've tried various solutions and contacted support about this issue yet the following still prompts whenever i'm trying to install the php-xml package.
My ...
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Is there a way to find hidden options and arguments on for a command / package that isnt documented?
On Linux if I install a new package and it contains commands I haven't used before, is there a way to find hidden options and args that are not documented in the MAN page or with the --help option.
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docker container linux-tools-generic package
My goal is to use perf to run performance tests on some Docker images. By default, the images I'm using don't come with perf. As such, I tried
apt-get update
apt-get install linux-tools-generic
to ...
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Do .rpm files have metadata
I have a .rpm file on my windows machine. Is there a way to inspect this file (either on windows or centos) without installing it, to find out where it was compiled from? something like metadata?
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Yum installation fails with RHEL 6.5
I am trying to install shibboleth SP package using YUM installation (Yum install shibboleth). I am getting the following error while installing.
Downloading Packages:
http://download.opensuse.org/...
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Install package in Centos 6 from Centos 7 repo
I have Centos 6 and Centos 7 machines setup so that the first uses mount.cifs in order to mount volumes from the second through a proprieraty software.
The problem is that the Centos 6 version of ...
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How to modify an ebuild on Gentoo
This is my first time using Gentoo and I am quite lost.
I want to install Nginx. The current ebuild does not have support for limitproxy http://nginxlimitproxy.sourceforge.net
I can see I have to ...
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ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve
Transaction Summary
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Install 9 Package(s)...
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How to use Ansible's homebrew module to assert a list of packages are installed
I'm a relatively new user of Ansible. I use it to orchestrate a few groups of Linux servers. I'm now expanding that use to use Ansible's homebrew module.
Using the homebrew module, I want to assert ...
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Installing packages in SLES 12 SP3
I'm new to Suse and I have no idea how to do anything here. This is something I'm terribly new at and I can't figure out some basic stuff. First off, I'm used to Ubuntu. To install packages in Suse I'...
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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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Performance difference between compiled and binary linux distributions/packages
I was searching a lot on the internet and couldn't find an exact answer.
There are distros like Gentoo (or FreeBSD) which does not come with binaries but only with source code for packages (ports).
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Debian 9 build PHP7.0 with --with-fpm-acl fails
I need to enable support for POSIX ACL in PHP-FPM. I can get ACL list with getfacl and set them with setfacl -m from shell so my kernel support it. I've downloaded sources of PHP7.0_7.0.19 with
$ cd /...
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How to install/enable GMP (math functions) for PHP on CentOS [closed]
I am trying to install GMP (GNU Multiple Precision) for PHP on my VPS.
Server OS :- CentOS 6 with cPanel
GMP Official Site :- http://www.gmplib.org
I have been trying from 8 Days, but have not found ...
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Ignore Specific Package When Updating - Solaris 11.3 SPARC
I'm running java 7 on one of my Solaris servers. We need to run updates but when we do java 8 tries to install itself. This wouldn't be a big deal but it conflicts with another application we have ...
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Why apt on debian is showing package version different than command version
I was automating some packages requirements with ansible and wanted to freeze their version and I found out I am not sure which version is being used by the system.
The debian apt-get commands give a ...
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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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rpm dependency failed to install, package installed anyway
I have this issue and I would like to understand why it is like this.
I have build 3 really simple rpm packages called a, b and c, and I made a independant, b depending on a and c depending on a and b....
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Unable to install realm package
I am trying to join Centos 6.5 to Active Directory domain . I have upgraded all the packages using yum upgrade. but I'm unable to install realm package, it say 'no package realmd available'. Can ...
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Upgrade NuGet Powershell Cmdlets
I'm attempting to use NuGet powershell cmdlets mentioned here.
I'm having a problem with the fact that I use VS2015 and my machines NuGet package source is pointing to "https://api.nuget.org/v3/index....
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Resolve a dependacy fail with libc-bin on debian
I had a very old server on etch and i tried to upgrade it to jessie.
everything was good until wheezy
when i made dist-upgrade, it try to upgrade libc6
WARNING: this version of the GNU libc ...
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"Class 'XMLWriter' not found" Error in php | php55w-xml-5.5.24-1.w6.x86_64.rpm is missing
I am getting this error in PHP in server Fatal Error (E_ERROR): Class 'XMLWriter' not found . we are using Cent OS 6
After exploring some sites, we found that we need to install php55w-xml-5.5.24-1....
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Adding CentOS 6.8 Client to Spacewalk
I'm trying to add a CentOS 6.8 client to Spacewalk 2.6 to I can push out updates. In order to add the client I need to first install some packages: rhn-client-tools rhn-check rhn-setup rhnsd m2crypto ...
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How to keep newly installed packages in sync from master to nodes with puppet?
I have a setup of a bunch of machines (Ubuntu servers) which are geographically separated and are used for developing the same code-base. Sometimes I need to install packages on the machine from my ...
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systemd-machined not found in debian systemd package
I have a docker container running a very bare version of debian stretch. with this, I have to install systemd externally first. To do this, I have a docker container that runs the install, then I ...
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Prevent from installing open-vm-tools-desktop / @platform-vmware on EL 7
When installing RHEL 7/CentOS 7 as a VMware ESX guest, the installer (Anaconda) automatically detects the virtualization host, then install the appropriate tools (open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-...
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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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apache2-api-20120211 - How do I install it? No installation candidate
Cloudflare module depends on apache2-api-20120211 but there is no installation candidate for it.
What is apache2-api package virtual package for? There is no information anywhere regarding this ...
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apt-get fails with unmet dependencies: Breaks, Depends, Recommends - what does it all mean?
I am attempting to patch the Dirty Cow vulnerability by running the following command on my Ubuntu 12.04 server:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
This results in the follow ...
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Yum error CentOS 6.7, can't get connected to the package http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release_rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.i686.rpm
I tried yum clean all and yum update and then I try yum erase apf and yum erase doesn't work because it can't get connected to the package mentioned in a title.
I am connected to the internet and ...
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How to verify GD and Freetype support
I'm running a server with ubuntu 9.10.
I'm trying to enable captcha support for our wordpress blog contact form and the instructions say that I'll need to "verify that PHP has GD support and Freetype ...
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RHEL5: Forbid installation of i386 packages on 64-bit systems?
Everytime I install something with yum, it tries to install both x86_64 and i386 versions of the package if both are available. Is there any way I can forbid that without specifying the arch of the ...
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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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How to install old packages on a server?
I have been given a task to install PHP 5.3.29 a MySQL 5.5, but both of them are old - are there some repos with old packages? Or how do I get them? I have to install it with yum.
Thank you very much
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Should package post install script run database migration?
So I have this debian package that install some nodejs application web app which uses a mysql database. The package have a postinst script that run the db migrate command bundled with he package.
Now,...
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Ubuntu/Debian: Show list of available versions of a specific package
How can I list all available versions of specific package?
I know with
apt-get install myPackage=1.2.3
a specific version could be installed.
And with
apt-show-versions -a myPackage
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How to view changelog of a deb package not yet installed
I got prompted to update libxml2 on my Debian Jessie Server however prior doing so i want to know what has changed on the latest version.
I have tried visiting Debian`s repo website for the relevant ...
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Debian/Ubuntu: Enabling "dist-upgrade" behavior for unattended-upgrades?
We've got a customized distribution of Ubuntu, a repository with some custom packages and we run unattended-upgrades on a number of systems. What we want to be able to do is supply an update of one of ...
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How to install package with yum without updating repository information?
I want to install some packages from repository but always when I'm trying to yum install packagename yum updates db:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Determining ...
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Install specific version of a yum pacakge or default to latest via environment variable
I know that you can install a specific version of a yum package using the <package name>-<version> like this:
yum install docker-engine-1.8.2
But I'm trying to customize this using an ...
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Installing development tools packages error Centos 6.6
I'm trying to install curl-devel package as a prior step to installation of git 2.x.x:
yum install curl-devel
But I get many errors like this one:
Error: Package: gcc-c++-4.4.7-4.el6.x86_64 (@base)...
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How do I install a virtual package?
I'm trying to install postgis with aptitude on Ubuntu 15.10 and is having problems with virtual packages that prevent the installation.
me@laptop:~$ sudo aptitude install postgis
The following NEW ...
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How to install a newer version of php on AWS Opsworks?
Our code base is using PHP 5.5 and we are wanting to deploy on AWS Opsworks however when selecting the PHP App Server layer we are told it has PHP 5.3.
What I was hoping is that I could just use the ...
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