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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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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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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Install xdebug for php 5.3.17 on centos 6.3 (final)
I'm really having difficulty finding out how to install xdebug for php 5.3.17 on centos 6.3.
I've tried this link (for centos 5.6 admittedly) but had no luck.
Can anyone point to the right RPM ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Why is it bad to build RPMs as root?
This page contains a prominent warning:
Important
Never build RPMS as root.
Why is it bad to build RPMs as root? Is it the possibility of overwriting some files? Are there file ...
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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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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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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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Alien: .rpm -> .deb | Compability / Built per system?
At the moment I'm playing a bit with alien (for OpenVZ packages on Debian) and was wondering myself about one question for which I was not able to find an answer anywhere.
Therefor I thought it might ...
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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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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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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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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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How to create RPM for 32-bit arch from a 64-bit arch server?
Our production server is running CentOS5 64-bit arch.
Because there are no RPM available currently for SQLite latest version (v3.7.3), I created RPM using rpmbuild the very first time by following ...
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Install recent ImageMagick on CentOS 6.3
I'm having a terrible time trying to get a recent version of ImageMagick installed on a CentOS 6.3 x86_64 server. First, I downloaded the RPM from the ImageMagick site and tried to install it. That ...
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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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Install MySQL 5.6 on CentOS 6.3 gone WRONG
I am trying to install MySQL 5.6 on CentOS 6.3 64bit using the .rpms provided by MySQL. I downloaded all the 64bit linux rpms into /usr/local/src/mysql and performed rpm -Uvh *.
The installation gave ...
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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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Reference for RPM spec macros (%setup, %buildroot, etc)
Which man page describes the usage of the top-level RPM spec file macros that are defined in RPM source files directly? I mean, %setup, %buildroot and the like, which are not in /usr/lib/rpm. Looking ...
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CentOS 5.6: How to resolve php53 RPM dependency conflict with php-mcrypt and php-common?
We are running a CentOS 5.6 system, and want to install php53 with php-mcrypt.
However, this introduces a dependency conflict between php-common & php53-common. Does anyone have a good workaround ...
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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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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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