Questions tagged [packages]
A package is a specific piece of software which can be installed and uninstalled on a system.
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How to check for modified config files on a Debian system?
How to find all Debian managed configuration files which have been changed from the default?
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Debian Bookworm E: Unable to locate package
I'm getting a lot of "E: Unable to locate package" errors when I try to install some popuplar packages...
in my /etc/apt/sources.list file I have these lines :
deb http://deb.debian.org/...
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How to get a complete file list for all packages?
I tried using apt-file list --regexp ".*", but it's not working, probably because the returned content is too extensive.
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Azure RHEL 8 VM - Apache 2.4 Package Availabilty
I've got a RHEL 8.8 instance in Azure. This instance will replace our current RHEL 7.9 instance running Apache 2.4.34. The RHEL 7.9 instance has the following httpd package installed: httpd24-httpd. ...
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Why isn't there a openjdk-8-jdk package on debian anymore?
On a docker container running the latest debian image I'm unable to install the openjdk-8-jdk package. Why not suddenly?
$ apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk
E: Unable to locate package openjdk-8-jdk
Why ...
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Trying to Install HP-HEALTH for Proliant DL585N G5 on Debian Bullseye
I'm building a small personal server room with some older servers and exploring running new tools like proxmox.
One such machine is an HP ProLiant DL585 G5, Quad Opteron with 40GB DDR2 that I would ...
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How to install mosh on oracle linux
I wanted to install mosh on oracle linux, but I was faced with the fact that such a package does not exist.
$ sudo yum install mosh
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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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jackett pkg outdated. is it possible to manually install the latest update?
The pkg and port listed for Jackett on FreeBSD is Version v0.20.989 however, the most up to date version is v0.20.2189. This version difference is causing some of my trackers to fail and will not ...
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using yum list package, show only the package name without x86_64 and version number without 4.el7
please help me, i want using yum list package, show only the package name without x86_64 and version number without 4.el7.
I don't want to use rpm -qa --qf , because yum more accurate.
yum list ...
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No package php-imap available on CentOS 6
I'm running a dedicated server with CentOS 6 64bit, here is the output when trying to install IMAP:
[root@localhost ~]# yum install php-imap
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from ...
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Centos 7 server with Nginx reports errors when updating packages
I have a CentOS 7 VM with Nginx installed. I use Webmin to administer the server.
It normally installs updates automatically, but the nginx update failed so I tried to manually do the update. It ...
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how to update linux headers properly in ubuntu 20.04 server
we have given our servers to security check and then they have suggested the below.
Installed package : linux-headers-5.4.0-29_5.4.0-29.33 Fixed package : linux-headers-5.4.0-_5.4.0-105.119
Installed ...
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How to install snapd on Oracle Linux 7.9
I am trying to install snapd on Oracle Linux Server 7.9
On many sites I have seen that it has been advised to install spand as follows
sudo yum install epel-release
sudo yum -y install snapd
But I ...
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Debian: how to install a package without a specific dependency (git without Perl)
I am trying to install an apt package without one of its dependencies (specifically, git without Perl to reduce Docker image size by >50MB).
I can think of two options:
installing the package ...
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apk command to find which package installs a program? [Alpine Linux]
I want to install program /usr/bin/time using Alpine Linux package manager apk (time is a program runtime measurement tool). But I don't know which package to install. apk search time reports 147 ...
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How to safety delete a package/software which wasn't installed via package manager
I have an old Ubuntu Linux 20 install. I recently found that I have a bunch of software that I installed before I started fully using package management and I can't remember the details of the ...
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PIP not installing to virtualenv directory
I am attempting to install django to a virtualenv that already exists.
Following the instructions listed on the pip-install website here, I ran the following from SSH.
name@server:~$ . myenv.env/bin/...
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Ubuntu package libzstd1 still old version
After upgrade from Ubuntu 20.10 to 21.04 i have a package problem.
When i try to install the package default-libmysqlclient-dev:
apt install default-libmysqlclient-dev
it fails with:
The following ...
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aptitude: list all previous recommended packages
Sometimes when installing a package, aptitude recommends several other packages.
Is there a way to show all previous recommended packages of all installed packages?
Edit:
Thanks for the replys so ...
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How can I get APT to "ignore" a package?
I am running a VPS using Debian unstable with this kernel version:
2.6.32-274.7.1.el5.028stab095.1
I just upgraded my packages and for some odd reason APT wants me to install linux-image-3.2.0-3-...
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GCP Suse Enterprise LInux 15, no default package repository
I created a suse linux enterprise 15 vm in GCP. When I try to install anything it gives the following error.
I searched a lot but couldn't find default package repo for suse.
test-suse:/etc/zypp/repos....
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Can't install rgdal R package on computing cluster - Linux
I am trying to install the R rgdal package on the HPC at my university.
I input the usual command used for any other packages, which were correctly installed, but not for "rgdal".
install....
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Where to get debian mirror status?
The following command fails right now (14:16 in EET timezone):
docker run debian:buster apt-get update
The error being:
$ docker run debian:buster apt-get update
Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian ...
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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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Dropped Packages in netzwork: ethertype Unknown (0xa0a0)
We recently started to monitor our servers and found that our network interfaces drop several packages per minute. The following investigation showed that those are always packages in the following ...
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Nexus mirror (with maven) does not work
Im using Nexus as mirror for maven central and want to add other repositories.
If I add this like this
<repositories>
<!-- org.spigotmc.spigot-api -->
<repository>
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Installing R packages on Ubuntu server
I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 with LAMP setup and working on a website.The code execution halted and the log file error.log shows package installation issue. Specifically,
Error in library(ggplot2)...
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Disable prompts while installing a Debian package
How can i disable totally the prompts that appear while installing a Debian package, i've used all the options that i've found but there are some packages that are still prompting.
I'm using this ...
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CentOS working with older repos
I often find with CentOS that I find a reference to a package on the internet and it the pages says "this package is available in the repo", so then I do sudo yum install (as I know that I ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 packages with an "{u}" in their name
After an upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04, some packages have "{u}" in their name. I have looked for the answer, but it looks like either google is promptly ignoring the curly braces during search or ...
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Monthly Patch Releases for Linux CentOS/RedHat
Can somebody tell me when CentOS/RedHat release package updates monthly? Micrososft has patch Tuesday but I can't seem to find a day/week when CentOS/RedHat release monthly patches. I'd like to ...
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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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Debian package set keep old conffile - not over apt globally
I want to update a own debian-package on different servers.
I would like to keep the old conf file, if it exists and not to say always no if prompt is asking what I want to do :
The default action is ...
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Ubuntu is setting up MySQL when installing Fpart
I'm trying to install fpart, but having mysql error:
# apt install fpart
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were ...
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Is a Debian Testing package safety comparable to Ubuntu “Stable”
I've noticed that Ubuntu has newer packages, and I wondered if it has more support or they are less cautious. Turns out it's the latter:
"Ubuntu packages are based on packages from Debian's ...
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Conflic install package solution?
I need to install auditd from package because my CentOS 6.6 server can't use yum update. But I got some problem and can't install them:
rpm -i audit-libs-2.4.5-6.el6.i686.rpm audit-2.4.5-6.el6.i686....
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Compatition package for CentOS6.6
my CentOS 6.6 linux kernel is: 2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.i686 #1 SMP Wed Oct 26 06:14:53 UTC 2016
I want to upgrade my auditd package to newer version, but there are many choices and I don't know which is ...
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Why are some software packages so big? [closed]
Some packages that I install – which I assume contain nothing but code – are tens or even hundreds of MB. For example, I recently installed pytorch and the size of the binary was 428 MB.
How can ...
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Redhat 7.4 fresh VM add repository for slapd, ldap-utils package
I am trying to redo steps from: https://youtu.be/6ls6kRvGkrU?t=100
But there is Ubuntu, and i am wondering can i get the same packages on redhat 7.4?
Currently they are missing:
[k@localhost ~]$ ...
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"apt install" didn't work but "dpkg -i" did
I tried to port qemu-related packages ("qemu-system-data,"...etc.) from the Ubuntu disco to xenial.
I downloaded the qemu-system-data package, extracted it, modified control file and then re-build it ...
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How to suppress Uninstall-Package prompting to install nuget
I am writing a script to go through our fleet of Windows machines, search for a couple of applications, and uninstall them if found.
To achieve this, I am using two commands
Get-Package
Uninstall-...
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Troubleshoot msiexec removing dotnet Core
I am attempting to upgrade ASP.NET Core from 2.0.3 to 2.1.5 on a group of servers. I am using a Powershell script that looks something like this:
$software = Get-ChildItem 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\...
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yum update if installed, otherwise install
Is there a command to do just that:
if a package is already installed, update it, otherwise install the latest version
For now I'm doing two commands:
yum install mypackage
yum update mypackage
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Installing a package using SCCM fails with error 0x87D00324(-2016410844) but package is not installed
VMWare Tools are usually installed through SCCM and now the newer version will not be installed through SCCM on all machines. So for some I do have the following failure.
The error code semes to be ...
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Faster way of deploying compiled software
I'm working on a project where I will have to deploy a large number of servers with particular software upon them. At the moment, I'm able to use the standard Ubuntu repositories, however the version ...
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Best practice to track custom software installations on Linux in /usr?
I'm compiling and installing software myself on Linux (Debian Squeeze in my case). Downloading, unpacking, installing dependent developer libraries/headers, running configure then make.
Up to this ...
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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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Spacewalk Clients Not Running Yum Updates
The clients registered with my spacewalk server report needing updates but when I schedule a event to update the packages on the clients they never perform the update. The little clock icon appears on ...
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RPM from installed package
The question is simple. I have an old CentOS 7 system that has some installed packages with specific version numbers. However, these versions are unavailable now in the repository they were downloaded ...
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