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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Building RPM containing passwords
I need to be able to send an RPM to customers that will install the complete server, including Apache and MySQL. The customers will install it on a clean machine.
After installation, the server ...
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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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Postgres 9.2 beta for Suse SLES
I am searching the internets high and low, but can't find any Postgres 9.2 beta versions for any SLES versions. Can I take some Fedora RPM or similiar, or can someone tell me how to find the RPMs on ...
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What is the RPMRepository
In several CentOS tutorials, they advise enabling the RPMRepository. I have some questions about this repository.
It seems like it's a RedHat repository that CentOS uses as well, since it's based on ...
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How to update crontab for a non-root user on Solaris non-interactively?
I would like to update crontab entries for a non-root user for an application which gets installed as OpenPKG RPM package.
Currently I have this in the %post section of my .spec file:
#
# Set up the ...
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Upgrade mysql version
I am trying to upgrade mysql package to 5.5 on centos. (amazon image - ami-cc5af9a5)
There is 5.1 version of mysql-libs that can not be uninstalled because postfix is dependent upon it. But I can not ...
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RPM: Set Required: somepackage >= 0.5.0 AND somepackage < 0.6.0
Is it possible to set dependecy version requirements like this:
Required: somepackage >= 0.5.0 AND somepackage < 0.6.0
So only somepackage 0.5.x will be automaticly installed.
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Getting Segmentation fault when installing my RPM trough another RPM requirement
I have a RPM to install SWFtools as written here. I have a another RPM that I created containing basic applications, shared to all of our servers. the first RPM (SWFtools) should be installed after ...
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How to install puppet devel version from yum?
In /etc/yum.repos.d/puppet.repo have I put
[puppetlabs]
name=Puppet Labs Packages
baseurl=http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/$releasever/devel/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
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RPM package naming for alternative configurations
I currently install PHP from source in several different configurations around my environment, each providing the minimum feature set required for its particular deployment: one deployment requires ...
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Decompiling an RPM?
This is hopefully a simple question. Are there any tools out there to find out an enhanced description (beyond the normal rpm command) of the contents of an rpm, and possibly decompile it? We ...
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Roll back RPM package
Is there any way to roll back a single package from yum update. I've noticed that the rpm --rollback switch is depreciated in SL linux 6.2.
There is also yum history however I would like to rollback ...
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yum - find packages in version minimum 'x' in specific repository?
I have configured several repositories on my CentOS 5 box. As an effect, command:
yum search nagios
outputs just mess - thousands of duplicated packages.
To make my life easier I would like for ...
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Unable to upgrade proftpd on plesk 9.5.4 with atomic rocket turtle repos
I've been trying to crack this one for a while now. I'm running Plesk 9.5.4, and have tried to upgrade and reinstall proftpd from ART packages. Here's what I'm getting from the following commands:
# ...
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NRPE installation issues “Starting nrpe in daemon mode … /usr/sbin/nrpe: error while loading”
I'm trying to install the nrpe package for OP5 on Centos. I think something is corrupt since I get following when trying to start the nrpe service: service nrpe start
Starting nrpe in daemon mode ...
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How to cutomise a CentOS iso to include my own rpm packages
Say I have downloaded a CentOS live desktop CD. How would I include my own rpm packages, so that they get installed automatically as soon as I boot with the live CD or have it permanently install in ...
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Obtain newer version of NetSNMP for CentOS 5
I'm using CentOS 5. I have a need to use net-snmp version "net-snmp-utils-5.5-37.el6_2.1.x86_64" which is currently available in CentOS 6 but not in CentOS 5. The reason I need this version (or ...
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Handling yum upgrade from pkg-x.y.rpm which requires mod_python to pkg-x.(y+z).rpm with conflicts mod_python
With yum/rpm on RHEL 5 can a yum upgrade be made to remove another, conflicting package - similar to the behaviour of apt-get dist-upgrade on Debian?
I am updating the .spec for our product's rpm. ...
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RPM Spec How to specify in package so that previous RPM is removed
Question:
What do I put in the foo.spec file so that the rpm's will remove the previous rpm before installing?
Description:
I have created a spec file that creates rpm's for a few packages that use ...
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Running rpm command in particular directory breaks
I have an unrelated issue to this RPM issue. I'm not sure if the two relates but I'll just talk about the one that's related to running the rpm command since it's easier to explain. The other issue ...
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yum trying to install el5 when I am on el6
When I run the following yum command I get this error:
Package: git-1.7.10.1-1.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge)
Requires: libcurl.so.3()(64bit)"
I read that this error is due to running an el5 ...
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rpm -ql package_name equivalent for Windows MSI?
Is there such a utility or capability an MSI? Perhaps msiexec?
rpm -ql provides the list of all the files installed by a given package. I'd like to get the same info from a Windows system.
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%files section in building rpm from source using Red Hat package Manager
I am creating customized rpm through source. I want to know what is the use of %files section.
These are the files that rpm will include in the package or it needs these files for rpm creation ...
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getting permission denied while creating rpm through rpm package manager on RHEL 5.3
I am trying to create rpm through rpm package manager. Following is my spec file:
**# This is a spec file for openldappkg**
%define _topdir /osp/rpmBuildOpenLdap
%define name openldap
%define ...
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Is there a way to build rpm's and deb's on the same system
I have a large Java enterprise application that is required to output rpm and deb packages.
Currently this means that we build the application on two different boxes, one with CentOS and the other ...
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Mock build system error: sh: ruby: command not found
I am trying to build a RPM using the mock build system. However, the shell in the mock environment cannot seem to find the ruby command. I run in to a build error:
sh: ruby: command not found
I can ...
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BUILDROOT files during RPM generation
Currently i have the following spec file to create a RPM. The spec file is generated by maven plugin to produce a RPM out of it. The question is: will i find files which are mentioned in the spec file ...
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tell yum to ignore a single dependency
I'm trying to install winswitch on CentOs 6. It requires 'nxagent'. But in centos, the package name is 'nx'. Is there a way to tell yum to skip checking the 'nxagent' dependency (i installed 'nx' ...
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Getting diffs for file changes detected by rpm -V
I have an installation that has been tampered with, and I want to find out what exactly has been changed.
I can run
rpm -V MY_PACKAGES
which gives me a list of modified files. Now I am looking for ...
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Rpm removal does not remove delivered dirs and leaves garbage
I deliver an application via an RPM.
This application delivers various directories and files.
E.g. under /opt/internal/com
a file structure is being copied.
I was expecting that on rpm -e all ...
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rpm -Uvh authenticated proxy access … just hangs?
I'm not sure how to set up authenticated proxy access with rpm. But I have it set up with wget and yum.
When I run rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/etc...
It just says 'Retrieving http://...' ...
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Can't find gnutls ibrary when executing rpmbuild under non-root
I am trying to build ntgs from the latest source, using the .spec from rpmforge - as non-root via rpmbuild. During the compile, it fails at this step:
checking for GNUTLS... no
configure: error: ...
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Find actual Centos6 path for %{_includedir} in spec file?
I am trying to find out which path actually resolves to %{_includedir} in a Centos6 installation.
I understand that this is normally "/usr/include" but where can I find where it is actually set or ...
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How do I install latest version of ANT on CentOS 5 x64 [closed]
I've installed ANT via yum but it's to old of a version. Not sure how to install it on it's own.
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How can I find the original un-changed configuration file to compare with the *.rpmnew file?
While upgrading from CentOS 5.7 to 5.8 I've received the following warnings:
warning: /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config created as /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config.rpmnew
warning: /etc/ssh/sshd_config ...
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Centos 6.2 postfix install dependency issues
I am administrating a VPS running cPanel and I'm trying to install postfix. Redhat-release says the version is CentOS release 6.2 (Final) and uname -a says:
Linux server.mydomain.com ...
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mark rpm package as automatically installed
On debian systems I can use 'aptitude markauto' and 'aptitude unmarkauto' to mark packages as manually or automatically installed. I use this to remove unneeded packages by marking the packages I know ...
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rpm is freezing in the same moment
I'm trying to install an rpm package:
rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
And got this via strace:
http://pastebin.com/zP45epkd
I'm on CentOS 5.7 64-bit:
2.6.18-274.18.1.el5 #1 ...
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Openfire admin password reset
I have a openfire server that was installed through RPM on one of my Linux server. Server is very old and going away soon, so I'm moving openfire to a new server. I installed same version of openfire ...
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Alternate RPM to download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm [closed]
Currently http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm is not working. Is there an alternate? I am needing to install mysql5.5.
Thanks
Odd: Ok so I use this ...
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How to rebuild RPM Database
I'm trying to rebuild the RPM DB Files to conform to the new md5sums of the files, so when the rpm is uninstalled, those files will still be removed.
I have a application that Installs with RPM, but ...
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Dependency problems with my custom build ffmpeg rpm [closed]
I'm having trouble installing custom build ffmpeg 0.9.1 rpm.When I try to install ,I get the following:
error: Failed dependencies:
libfaac.so.0 is needed by ffmpeg-0.9.1-1.i386
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Error when installing lighttpd
I have a server using lighttpd with the kloxo control panel, and some of the lighttpd files were missing the PHP configuration so I decided to reinstall lighttpd using Kloxo (this should regenerate ...
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Installing handlersocket
I am trying to install handlersocket plugin as explained here...
http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.5/performance/handlersocket.html#enabling-the-plugin
I have downloaded and installed ...
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Possible to install a 3rd party RPM locally? So as not to interfere with the system RPM?
This is a CentOS 5 system, x64, using yum/rpm for package management. The libxml2 is a bit dated, and the Perl XML library I'd like to install (from CPAN) requires a more up-to-date version of the C ...
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Is there a way to see if an rpm was installed manually or installed from a repo?
Title pretty much sums it up, but I'm looking for an rpm or yum command to see if an installed package was installed from the repos (if repo, which repo?), or manually.
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Problems with mysql-libs *after* installing MariaDB
I have installed MariaDB 5.3.3 on a Centos 6 server. In order to do that, I had to issue this command before installing the MariaDB-server rpm:
rpm -e --nodeps mysql-libs
And now mariadb and all ...
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How to fix “yum update” issue on CentOS?
I get the following error when I do sudo yum update. The only thing I did before getting the error is install Python 2.7 in different directory than Python 2.4. The default Python is still 2.4 on the ...
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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 ...
