RPM Package Manager is a package management system used primarily for GNU/Linux operating systems. It used the .rpm file format.
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Download RPM packages for command which is already installed [closed]
I have a centos machine in which i already installed openssl-devel
using
$ yum install openssl-devel
It downloaded and installed all the dependency packages
Now I need all those rpm packages ...
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Rebuild rpm under centos [closed]
i need to install MySQL 4.1 under a Centos web server(My centos release is 6.4, x86_64),
can anyone please help me with rebuilding so many dependencies?
I use rpmrebuild command and gcc, gcc-c++ are ...
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Yum command to downgrade packages
I need to downgrade php on a server and found the command below. Something seems to be wrong with the syntax.
yum downgrade $(rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME} " | \
grep -v ioncube | grep ^php | ...
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How to escape spaces in an rpm spec “source” item?
I'm trying to build an RPM, but the source file from the vendor has a space in the filename, and there doesn't seem to be any good way to escape the filename so that it builds.
I've tried putting a \ ...
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rpmbuild missing from rhel 6.3
I have a fresh new RHEL 6.3. I cannot access internet and because of this I cannot use yum. I would like to use the RPMs I get from the Red Hat package (2 discs full or RPMS).
These are all files ...
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yum and rpm nothing happens
I am experiencing an odd problem in CentOS 6.
when I try to use yum or rpm nothing happens.
For example if I type
yum update
it simply returns to the command prompt.
I have checked that yum and ...
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RPM SPEC file for dhcp-4.2.5-P1 / CentOS 6
I'm trying to build an RPM package of dhcp-4.2.5-P1
for CentOS 6.
I'm a bit struggling with getting the SPEC file right.
Can someone please share a SPEC that will work for CentOS 6?
All I need is ...
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Why can't RPM find dependencies, although they are installed?
Im' trying to rpm -ivh an RPM package.
The install fails, saying that php53 dependencies are failing.
However, I installed these packages in that very same version, so I don't understand why rpm ...
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Why aren't my packages being included from my custom yum repository?
We have a custom yum repository created using createrepo, which is hosted in an Amazon S3 bucket. We're using the yum-s3-iam plugin configured as explained in this blog post. to allow our ...
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How to stop services in spec file
I have this spec file that will install numerous rpm packages such as apache, mysql, etc.
I'm new to building rpms and I did looked at the Fedora documentation but I did not find the answer to my ...
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Linux - user privilege google chrome install [closed]
Can I install Google chrome (From RPM) with user privileges? (I Don't have Root permissions or su doesn't work).
I tried to create a RPM database in my local directory.
Tried to install the package ...
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Running rpm does nothing
I'm not sure what happened with rpm on my system. This is a CentOS 6.3 VM hosted on Amazon EC2 if that makes a difference.
When I run any rpm commands, it returns to the command prompt doing nothing. ...
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How to automate deploying to a local vm? [closed]
We've got a large number of RPMs in RHEL 6.2. Each RPM is a part of the product written using a combination of python, ruby, and (mostly) c++. For example:
foo.x86_64 1.0.0
bar.x86_64 1.2.0
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RPM : custom built package weird dependency issue at install time
I have a question concerning RPM packaging.
I have 2 packages, the first one is a dependency for the second one. It means that second one must not install without the first one being already ...
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rpm to track system version requiring all rpms as dependency surpasses 8k per line limit
I would like to be able to install one package that tracks the version of the system. If this package is installed I would like to be able to guarantee that the system is at the appropriate update ...
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Upgrading ImageMagick RHEL 5 [closed]
We have been using ImageMagick for quite some time with out any trouble.
However, today we can across an pdf we were trying to convert into a jpg thumbnail, which would fail:
$ convert example.pdf ...
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Where should I get rpms for Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike) [closed]
I need a recent version of the C++ standard library (version 6).
What is the best way to get this on our RedHat server? I noticed that up2date is not setup. Instead, is there a standard safe ...
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can not run program rpm [closed]
i am trying to build source of openfire server using eclipse and creating a rpm package from source code on my mac OS but when i run the build task to generate rpm i am getting following error
i ...
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yum install php [5.4.13] via remi, php-gd error [libjpeg.so.62] [duplicate]
I am trying to install php from remi repo, with nginx.
I am getting this error:
Error: Package: php-gd-5.4.13-1.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi)
Requires: libjpeg.so.62(LIBJPEG_6.2)(64bit)
I ...
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Can you help me with my software dependency issue?
This is (an attempt at) a Canonical Question about Compile Dependencies and Package Management.
I have a question regarding compiling ports/software or installing RPMs on my *nix server. When I ...
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RPM packages with dependencies based on a major version of software (i.e php 5.3 with it's addons and then php 5.4)
Scenario:
PHP5.3
php-5.3.21-1_x86_64.rpm (base)
php-pecl-memcache-3.0.6-1_x86_64.rpm (dependant on above because of the internal PHP ABI version change)
PHP5.4
php-5.4.13-1_x86_64.rpm (base)
...
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can not install glibc-devel 'Requires: libnss_files.so.2' error
I'm using Linux 6.1
I need to install glibc-devel but it fails with this error.
[root@server1 Packages]# yum install glibc-devel-2.12-1.25.el6.i686.rpm
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up ...
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What is preferred approach to deploy Python app using RPM? [closed]
I am new to the dev-ops side of things, and I've been working to get a Python application packaged into an RPM (using python setup.py bdist_rpm) deployed onto a centos VM via Yum. Chef is used to ...
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How to create Python (2.7.3) RPM package? [closed]
No matter what I try, I cannot do this. I'm on Centos 5.6 x86_64
1 python setup.py bdist_rmp gives me syntax error:
[root@localhost Python-2.7.3]# python setup.py bdist_rpm
File "setup.py", line ...
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openVPN centOS 6.4 64bit dependency issues
Everytime I download the openVPN rpm (http://mirror.its.sfu.ca/mirror/CentOS-Third-Party/epel/6/x86_64/openvpn-2.2.2-1.el6.x86_64.rpm) and try to install it, I'm running into dependency issues.
What ...
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Building Tripwire RPM on CentOS6
I have been unable to locate a pre-built RPM for Tripwire on CentOS6.
I have tried installing the one from CentOS5, as well as a couple of later Fedora RPMs, but all fail on a dependency on ...
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Garbage in output from `rpm --showrc` on new AWS instance [closed]
The output I get is http://pastie.org/6408426 which seems to have shell scripts in the output somehow. I've tried reinstalling rpm (yum reinstall rpm), but no change. Has anyone encountered something ...
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RPM Package a ruby project
I want to package a ruby program that I get from git into a RPM package. I have at my disposition a build server and a production server (Same OS / Same Arch).
As most ruby project, mine does have ...
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JAVA_HOME Environment variable for CentOS 6.3 [closed]
I have CentOS 6.3 also I've done every single variation for echo just to display the "echo $JAVA_HOME" variable and for the life of me I cannot get it to display the environment variable I've been in ...
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Installing HAProxy on CentOS 6.3?
This is a weird one.
I've installed the EPEL for CentOS 6 via
# rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
The tried to install HAProxy:
# yum update
# yum ...
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RPM installed but not installed RHEL6
I'm trying to resolve one dependency. Because RHEL6 doesn't contain python-2.4.3, I downloaded the package from RHEL5 and put it into our own repository. Then upon installing it:
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---> Package ...
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Hamachi 2 for CentOS 6.3 ham0 network interface missing
I am trying to install Hamachi on CentOS 6.3 (64-bit), but the network interface never appears. I installed from the official Hamachi RPMs:
sudo rpm -ihv logmein-hamachi-2.1.0.86-1.x86_64.rpm
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Optimal way to register existing local files as a package in the local RPM database
My final goal is a way to register a bunch of local files as a package in the local RPM database. This is what I've done so far:
I build an RPM package from existing files using rpmbuild, then use ...
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quick rpm install
I am trying to install percona server. This is a test machine and installed packages do not really matter. What all I need to do is install percona mysql server.
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Keep installed RPMs in sync
What is the best way to keep several CentoS/RH 5 servers keep the same set of RPM's? I.e., when I install or update an RPM on one of them using a common YUM repository, make the other servers ...
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installing percona mysql on centos [closed]
From where will I get the mysqldump file from /usr/bin of percona mysql server (32 bit centos 5)? Is it available on the web without installing the software?
In other words I am collecting all ...
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How to return a package to its original state
I'm running a CentOS 6 server with VirtualBox 4.2 Headless. Lately my virtualbox installation hasn't been running correctly.
The problem is that, whenever I try to do something I get this error:
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ssl-cert package (self signed certificates) for rpm/fedora
In Debian/Ubuntu, my deb packages depend on the ssl-cert package, to provide some self-signed https certificates, if nothing else. From the Debian page:
This package enables unattended installs of ...
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rpm build date format [closed]
I'm wondering if there's a way to show the rpm's build date from a 24 hour date format to 12 hour format.
I have two machines but I can't figure out why one machine is in 12 hours (focus on "Build ...
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Cannot get exclusive lock on rpm database in Unix
I was trying to install a python rpm on AIX 6.1 and it was taking too long and so I had to close ther terminal.
Later when I tried to install the same rpm as root I am getting the problem as :
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Installing Open SSL on UNIX
I want to install openssl-1.0.1c-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm on IBM AIX 6.1 server machine and when I try to install the same as :
rpm -ivh openssl-1.0.1c-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm .
I get the error saying that it needs ...
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Potential issues with “yum update ./*.rpm”?
I've got a batch machines to update this week, but I'm not quite confident with our established procedure. It basically runs like so for each machine:
Mount a shared directory particular to the OS ...
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Going from source to RPM
I'm curious about the major difference/pros/cons between installing services and tools from source over using RPMs and from repositories.
From my understanding using a repo/rpm gives you the ability ...
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php-soap 5.3.17-2 el6 x86_64
I just transferred a website to a server where I appear to lack the PHP-SOAP extension.
Unfortunately I cannot upgrade to the 5.4.10 that is available on remi at the moment as I am not 100% sure if ...
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Error When Installing Enchant
After installing Enchant through EasyApache I tried to install the PECL for PHP (because it doesn't just work with PHP by itself, unless I'm missing something). When installing through WHM, I get a ...
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RedHat: is it possible to install packages in a kind of mock environment to build RPMs
Is there a tool that allows to install the dependecies of an RPM .spec into an isolated environment? I won't install such dependencies globally on the system and I am not able to do so since I have ...
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latest mod_dav_svn for RHEL 6
I'm looking for lates mod_dav_svn rpms for RHEL 6/Centos 6 that are build as normal RPMS i.e. mod_dav_svn, subversion and other usual packages.
Looking to: http://subversion.apache.org/packages.html
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Why rpm -q vnc-server return not installed after apparent succesful installation
root@host [/tmp]# yum install vnc-server
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.sanctuaryhost.com
* extras: ...
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Running program that you just installed with rpm
I've just downloaded pgadmin from :
http://yum.postgresql.org/repopackages.php#pg92
and I've installed it :
rpm -ivh pgdg-centos92-9.2-6.noarch.rpm
How do I open it? where can I find it or do I ...
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YUM dependency issue even though library is installed
We build our own php and mysql packages from source, this one is for the php-5.4.10 release, and host these at our own repository. Let's call this package custom-php and custom-mysql(-libs & ...
