RPM Package Manager is a package management system. "RPM" refers to the .rpm file format, files in this format, software packaged in such files, and the package manager itself. RPM was intended primarily for GNU/Linux distributions. The file format is the baseline package format of the Linux ...
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Download 64-bit rpm package on 32-bit machine
I want to download some rpm packages from a rpmforge repo. My base machine is running CentOS 32 bit and I want to download some 64-bit packages.
Is there any way in which we can configure YUM on a ...
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Installing PHP 5.2.17 Dependencies on Centos 5
I have followed the wget method here hoping it was my solution:
Howto install php 5.2.17 on centos 6 x86_64
However I get the following error when trying to install:
# rpm -ivh ...
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How can I tell what rpms are managed outside of yum?
I am inheriting a Centos 5 box and I'd like to get an idea of what rpms have been installed outside of yum.
Bonus: How can I audit that RPMs installed with yum to make sure that they are not ...
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How can I see what rpm --setperms will do before running it?
I’m troubleshooting issues with package updates making changes to filesystem permissions. rpm(8) has a handy option to manually reset the filesystem permissions back to what is specified in the rpm: ...
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RPM postinstall script missing?
I executed the following on xyz-3.0.rpm:
$ rpm -qi --scripts ~/xyz-3.0.rpm > list
Now here's what list showed:
$ cat list
postinstall scriptlet (/bin/sh):
rm /opt/xyz/config/appkey.cfg
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How to install mcrypt for PHP 5.3.3 on CentOS 5.7 64 bit?
I installed php 5.3 and some modules using
yum install php53-{module-name}
But mcrypt did not work.
I searched like this:
yum list php* | grep mcry
The only package that came up was
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How to quickly remove a set of outdated packages?
I have a newly installed CentOS 5.7 machine and mistakenly installed PHP 5.1 when I needed 5.2+.
Now I cannot seem to install PHP 5.3 (using "yum install php53") until I remove PHP 5.1.
I found this ...
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Repository Spec file
I have source of webfiles. I need to make a RPM for it. I have placed my source in SOURCES folder and use following spec file. But it is creating noarch rpm with 2MB size, but my source is greater ...
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CentOS 6 - How to modify iptables during kickstart install?
I'm having trouble modifying iptables configuration during a customized kickstart installation of CentOS 6. The kickstart process is installing several custom RPMs on top of a minimal ISO image. ...
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Generic RPM package for Python 2.x
I have a python application, it can run on Python >= 2.6 and it's architecture independant.
I need the rpm package of this application to be installed on Fedora 14 (python 2.7) and Centos 6.2 (python ...
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connect mysql from php without yum command manually
I am trying to connect to mysql from php, it says i have not configured mysql-php, call to undefined function:mysql_connect();. My server is not registered with RHN, hence i cannot yum install ...
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Unable to install Kerberos libriaries using $ rpm -ivf krb5-libs-1.8.4-3.fc14.x86_64.rpm
My Linux version is as follows:Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga)
My rpm version is 4.4.2.3
when I am trying ti run uname -a ,the output i sas follows:
Linux ...
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Sphinx: libmysqlclient.so.15(libmysqlclient_15)(64bit) is needed
Can't find a way to install sphinx. It's asking for libmysqlclient.so.15, which I have...
What else can i do?
This is what I've tried already
[root@server1 ~]# rpm -ivh sphinx-2.0.3-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
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upgrade php from 5.2.14 (compiled from source) to 5.3 (through yum install)
I previously setup my server by downloading php from php.net, and using the configure, make make install to get it onto my apache centos server.
Now I want to upgrade and I'm not sure how to do it.
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How to install Mysql 5.1 on Fedora 16
I can't seem to install MySQL 5.1 on Fedora 16. When I try to install an RPM downloaded from the MySQL website I get conflict errors with the existing 5.5 packages which I have already 'removed' via ...
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Mysql rpm package build for Scientific Linux
In my organization we need to deploy custom mysql packages for our Scientific Linux nodes.
We need the latest version of mysql and the install directory as
/opt/mysql
I am trying to build from ...
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Why can't I install sqlite-devel package?
I'm try to install the sqlite-devel package on a Red Hat 4.1.2-51 x86_64 Linux server with rpm command:
# rpm -i ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/fedora/epel/4/x86_64/sqlite-devel-3.3.6-0.3.el4.x86_64.rpm
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Build RPM from DRPM on Fedora Linux
I am creating a private Fedora Linux mirror (os & updates repositories of RPMS and DRPMS). Of course, I'm doing that using rsync and everything is working well... except that I'm using a very slow ...
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Installing mod_pagespeed (Apache module) on CentOS
I have a CentOS (5.7 Final) system on which I already have Apache (2.2.3) installed.
I have installed mod_pagespeed by following the instructions on: ...
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rpm -ivh, failed dependency already installed
I'm having trouble installing a set of custom build rpms. The spec file produces 7 binary rpms. I installed 5 of them using rpm -ivh and then decided that I also needed the remaining two. When I ...
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How to determine the date a package was installed or updated?
Is there a way to determine the date a package was installed or updated? What's the proper syntax for both rpm and dpkg?
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Can dpkg verify files from an installed package?
With rpm -qV openssh-server I will get a list of files that have changed compared to default.
~$ rpm -qV openssh-server
S.?....T. c /etc/ssh/sshd_config
~$
Can dpkg on Ubuntu do the same?
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Install Fedora Source package on RHEL / CentOS
I'm attempting to upgrade curl on RHEL / CentOS machines. I've found what seems to be the appropriate source packages in a number of repos. (ie, ...
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Puppet package provider relocatable RPM
Is it possible to pass a new root install location to an RPM via puppets package provider? I've got a relocatable package that I want to override the install location on and would rather do it via the ...
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Upgrade cURL to latest on CentOS
I need to upgrade cURL to the latest version on Centos
2.6.18-164.15.1.el5.centos.plusxen #1 SMP Wed Mar 17 20:32:20 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I'm unable to find any suitable ...
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Installing PHP dependencies
While trying to install php-mysql package, I get the following error.
It was working fine with php-5.1.6-27.el5 and mysql 5.0 version. After MySQL upgrade, certain PHP pages had issues and I had to ...
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CentOS6 installation from CentOS5 box?
I am trying to build a new CentOS 6 VM from my CentOS 5 host, but it appears that something fundamental has changed between these versions:
$ rpm -ivh --nodeps --nodigest --ignorearch --ignoreos ...
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Change Management Workflow Using Yum
We have a fairly strict patching process that we have to follow:
Patch a development or testing machine
Wait one week to see if it explodes
Patch the corresponding production machine to the same ...
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use local file as puppet template
I'm developer of a java software and try to find a smart way to get my app distributed and configured in our datacenter. For that, I build an rpm package and we have set up a satellite. Target OS is ...
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Python command to create no-arch rpm's
I am creating rpm's for my project which is in pure python. I am running the command
python setup.py bdist_rpm
to build the rpm. This is creating architechture specific rpm's (x86 or x86-64). ...
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Installing elfutils-libelf, failed dependency that's already installed?
I, stupidly, uninstalled Python (I was having trouble with it for something else I needed) and didn't realise Yum needed it. So when I tried installing Python with a Yum command of course it didn't ...
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Multiple versions of a shared library on CentOS
My problem is that I need to install a modern, recent version of cairo & pixman on CentOS 5.6 to support an application. CentOS 5's native version of cairo is very old (1.2.4) and incompatible ...
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where to find applicationContext.xml after install it
I installed the project using rpm, then found out there was a typo in the application.xml file. then i searched the application.xml but could not it? its not in
/etc/tmo/myservice/
or
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making a rpm package installation non-interactive
we have a package on RHEL and we'd like to make the installation non-interactive so that we can read a config/answer file. (Our Solaris version using the package manager and that allows for ...
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Scientific linux: How to install yum using rpm?
On Scientific linux 6.0(RH like linux)
I accidentally removed python, so yum removed as well.µ
How to install yum with rpm?
EDIT
I try to install python but it is somehow looped the dependences:
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Installation of net-snmp - How do I resolve the dependencies?
I'm trying to install net-snmp on Redhat 2.6.9-55.ELsmp by following the instructions.
The problem is I get this:
grep: /usr/lib/libbeecrypt.la: No such file or directory
/bin/sed: can't read ...
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Removed YUM? CentOS 5.5
After doing yum remove crontabs this appears after running yum: -bash: /usr/bin/yum: No such file or directory
This was the output of yum remove crontabs:
[root@vs270 opt]# yum remove crontabs
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Upgrade Apache from source if the original was installed from an rpm?
(migrated from stackoverflow.com)
Recently I've inherited a set of machines running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4. They have been provisioned with Apache Server v2.2.3 installed from rpms. I need to ...
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Upgrade Apache from source if the original was installed from an rpm?
Recently I've inherited a set of machines running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4. They have been provisioned with Apache Server v2.2.3 installed from rpms. I need to upgrade Apache to v2.2.19. For ...
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Ruby 1.8.7 on Plesk 9.5.4
I'm trying to get Ruby 1.8.7 installed on Plesk 9.5.4. I'm currently running 1.8.6 but gem requires a newer version of Ruby to be installed:
/opt/ruby/bin/gem update --system
Updating RubyGems
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Where can I find an online list of CentOS packages and their versions?
I am looking for an online list of the standard packages available for CentOS Linux.
I know that if I had a CentOs system running, I could use yum to list packages. However, I am trying to evaluate ...
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Disable the public key check for rpm installation
I want to make a DVD with some useful packages (for example php-common). The only problem is that if I try to install on a computer that's not connected to internet, I can't validate the public key.
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RHEL6 SRPMs Are Not Found by “yumdownloader”
I am trying to download SRPMs from redhat from what of their servers. I went through step one of initializing the repository...
# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel-source.repo
[rhel-source]
name=Red Hat ...
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Conflicts with file from package mysql-5.0.77
I'm trying to install APC (Alternative PHP Cache) on a CentOs dedicated server. I've everything done apart from configuring phpize. Running :yum -y install php-devel gives me the following error:
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rpm spec: conditional require based of distro version
I'm trying to write a single rpm spec for RHEL/CentOS/SL 5 and 6. This spec is for python app, so there is no differences in build process. But on rhel/centos5 I need to add one additional dependency.
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Is it possible to use RPM as a poor man's tripwire?
I know about rpm's -V option that tells me if files installed via RPMs have not been modified, but is there a simple way to get rpm to tell me if any files in a given directory were not installed by ...
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Linux SUSE - how to check (from root) if a package is already installed?
Simple question on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 (simple for someone who's not a total ignorant on the topic like me I am guessing): how do I check from root if a given package is already ...
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Not able to install Statistics::Basic on RHEL5
I am trying to install the perl module Statistics::Basic::Mode on a RHEL 5 system and am having issues.
I have tried MCPAN and RPM. Here is the result of running
sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell > ...
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How do I install an rpm that complains about rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1?
Im trying to install an rpm file on CentOS 5 and Im not sure how to resolve this issues it brings up:
$ rpm --install epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm
warning: epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm: Header V3 ...
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Query IBM domino server linux package
I have used rpm -qa to export the list of package installed on the linux machine. After which, I didn't see any IBM domino server related packages in the exported file.
May I know what is the ...
