Questions tagged [packages]
A package is a specific piece of software which can be installed and uninstalled on a system.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Make Yum recognize that httpd24-httpd (from SCL) provides the webserver virtual package
I've recently discovered software collections and understand how they allow me to install multiple versions of software by introducing a namespace for each collection. On Enterprise Linux, this is ...
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Install package from oldstable (wheezy) to stable (jessie)
I want to install the package which is missing in jessie from wheezy. It is like backport the other way. I need gcc-4.7, but jessie provides only gcc-4.9. Unstable provides gcc-4.7 only for arm ...
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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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FreeBSD -no internet access -no packages
I just used this command:
make -DBATCH install clean
and realized that I don't have access to internet from FreeBSD.
If I type the address manually the browser doesn't let me see them.
Can ...
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mcstrans erased, but it erased multiple packages with it and system is broken
I erased mcstrans of my Red Hat system, but it erased with it a lot of other packages. Now yum is not working (python is missing), and I cannot access the server via ssh because libfipscheck.so.1 is ...
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Create custom package from nginx source - renaming nginx to custom-nginx
My dist is Ubuntu 14.04
use case
I am attempting to create my own packaged nginx called 'custom-nginx'. It needs to install itself into alternative directories as so it does not interfere with the ...
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Installing packages inside a docker container using saltstack
Ive have been looking for tutorials to help me understand it but my searches has been unsuccessful. so I was wondering if it is possible for a Saltstack Master to install packages, say apache-mysql-...
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Having issues installing Pecl Phar package - make failed
On Centos 6, php 5.5
I am trying to install the PHAR package with PECL. During the installation I get an "make failed" error:
creating libtool
appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
configure: ...
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Prevent debian package from being removed by puppet
is there a way to prevent a debian package from being removed? I want to prevent any resolution of "replaces" and "breaks" attributes that would lead to removing that package while being able to ...
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Is the lmdb-devel package necessary for installing the cfengine on RHEL v.7 via an RPM .spec file?
I have a problem when I try to build from my spec file. I run this:
rpmbuild -ba newpackage.spec
I see a great deal of output. It ends with these lines:
configure: error: Cannot find Lightning ...
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Manual interactive proxy to install packages on server without internet
I need to install some rpm, python and R packages on a server that has no internet connexion: I can only ssh to it.
I can download the packages and scp them to the server, then install them manually ...
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Compiling in linux to specific directory and then package the software
I need to compile a software from the sources.
./config && make && make install
On that, it does install a bunch of stuff everywhere(Libraries, etc)
But the thing is, that I also ...
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Error installing Python packages on an AWS Ubuntu server
I am trying to install the Ansible control server on Ubuntu 14.x (an AWS instance).
When trying to install the dependencies, I saw an error. I'm not sure what I need to do. Is this an ignorable ...
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RPM Dist Tag not behaving as documented
According to the Fedora documentation the %{?dist} tag when building an RPM on CentOS 7 I should get .el7. but currently I get .el7.centos.
The line from my .spec:
Release: 1%{?_buildid}%{?dist}
I ...
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Can't install PHP Intl on CentOS 6.5
I'm trying to install this package on my server running PHP 5.4 with no success. However, it only took a few seconds on my PC running OpenSUSE 13.2. The name of the package was "php5-intl-5.6.1-18.1....
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Resolve packages not found and errors during configure,make,make install in a script
I need to have a script that will install a package from source in a Linux system and need to know how to take care of the errors that usually come up as a result of the first step ./configure maybe a ...
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Uninstall new Relic package completely [closed]
I want to remove the package completely and start again as the server now has more 4 cores rather that 2, when new relic was first installed.
Have tried yum erase newrelic-sysmond , but this still ...
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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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apt-get fails with unmet dependencies
I have a server running Ubuntu 12.04 on AWS and I can no longer install anything on apt-get because I get this error:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mysql-server-5.5 : Depends: ...
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Apt-get install removed packages
During a puppet run, ia32-libs was installed, this seems to have caused several packages to be uninstalled but I'm not sure why.. Can anyone shine any light on the matter?
Here's the apt log entry:
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Is there some free remote sniffer (aka sniffer on free remote server)? [closed]
I have this setup:
________Company LAN_______
_________ . '| _________
| | .| BUNCH OF | ...
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Renaming debian package
I'm trying to build a customized version of a nginx package for Debian/Ubuntu which had a different set of modules opposed to the default version.
What would be the fastest way to modify the debian/ ...
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Is it possible to force a linux install to continue?
I'm PXE booting a linux distro that I'd like to contain a list of packages. I have these packages listed in a kickstart file for inclusion. Some of these packages won't work with the current distro, ...
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What do you use for automated testing of Debian package installations and updates?
I am using a Debian repo (based on reprepro) for Wheezy and custom packages. I modify my custom packages from time to time and test them manually on different systems, e.g.:
Test a) Installation of ...
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YUM installs outdated software
I recently acquired a red hat server that runs RHEL 5.5. I get a feeling that my YUM repositories are totally out of date because of the following reasons:
I tried updating GCC using YUM. The updated ...
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Easily spoof lsb_release output for different versions
I’m often rebuilding software packages (mostly Debian) for older versions (of both Debian and Ubuntu, including oldoldstable). Some of these packages use the lsb_release command to figure out the ...
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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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Trigger actions automatically when package is installed or user is added
When installing mysql-server on Debian Wheezy, the user "mysql" is created without a home directory. In my setup, directly after MySQL was installed, a new task is performed which relies on the mysql ...
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Execute script after removepkg in Slackware
I've created a slackware build script so I could build a specific package and then install it on a couple of servers running identical versions. I'm aware you could use doinst.sh to do things after ...
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