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Official online RPM package browser / search for CentOS
https://pkgs.org/ provides a "Linux Packages Search" for several distributions, including CentOS 5–7.
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How to completely remove a package in Ubuntu (like it never existed)
You should purge those packages.
apt-get purge somepackage
from man apt-get (APT-GET(8))
purge
purge is identical to remove except that packages are removed and purged (any configuration ...
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Why isn't there a openjdk-8-jdk package on debian anymore?
You are on Debian 10 (buster), but the link you showed is for Debian 9 (stretch).
OpenJDK is on version 11 for Buster and OpenJDK 8 is not available.
https://packages.debian.org/buster/openjdk-11-...
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PIP not installing to virtualenv directory
Sorry for a year late answer! I had the same problem and fixed it, I don't know if you changed the name of a directory after creating the virtual environment, I did though. If so then here's what I ...
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Performance difference between compiled and binary linux distributions/packages
All the points made are of course correct. I would just like to take some issue with the idea that 5%-15% performance increase is unachievable, especially with modern versions of GCC, it really ...
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Do .rpm files have metadata
I've forked @Ignacio answer and created oneliner to quickly go over all tags:
rpm -qp package.rpm --qf "$(rpm --querytags | sed -nr 's/(.*)/\1:%{\1}/p' | tr '[:space:]' '\n')"
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systemd-machined not found in debian systemd package
Turns out systemd-machined is in a separate package from the main systemd package. In order to install systemd-machined on Debian Stretch, you have to run apt-get install -y systemd-container.
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How to install/enable GMP (math functions) for PHP on CentOS
If you are missing and need GMP itself, you can install GMP from the CentOS Base repository.
yum -y install gmp
As for the php-gmp package, it is not available in the standard CentOS 6 Base ...
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Centos 7 server with Nginx reports errors when updating packages
I've solved this for my system, though my solution may not be applicable to everyone, depending on whether or not you use the nginx-* modules that are causing the dependency issues.
My solution was ...
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How to upgrade a package in Debian 8?
This is normal as Debian 8 (jessie) is currently the oldstable release. If you search for Package curl you'll notice that the stable version currently has curl 7.52, while testing & unstable are ...
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Why isn't there a openjdk-8-jdk package on debian anymore?
Apparently Debian 10 alias Buster only provides openjdk 11 packages.
In my case this meant using debian 9 alias stretch instead. I must admit it wasn't very clever using latest as a version in the ...
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How to manually download individual files from the OpenIndiana (or Solaris) pkg repo?
IPS clients can only install packages from IPS repositories. So, if you're not interested in adding the remote repository as a publisher, fortunately there is another option, which is to create an IPS ...
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Monthly Patch Releases for Linux CentOS/RedHat
Such a cycle does not exist (at least for CentOS). Updates are made available as and when they are ready. They normally lag Red Hat updates by a little time.
You can easily set up you own patch ...
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Monthly Patch Releases for Linux CentOS/RedHat
Red Hat does not withhold security updates for an artificial schedule, as some other operating system vendors do. They are released as soon as they are ready for deployment. That may be on any day of ...
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Compiling in linux to specific directory and then package the software
If you intend to distribute the software to other machines, you definitely need to package it.
You don't specify which distribution you are using, so general guidance follows.
Software in the GNU/...
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RPM Dist Tag not behaving as documented
I just fought the same problem.
A search led me here:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/centos/7.1.1503/x86_64/Packages/centos-release-7-1.1503.el7.centos.2.8.x86_64.html
The value of "%{dist}" is (at ...
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Where can I find an online list of CentOS packages and their versions?
See https://pkgs.org/ which allows you to search a range of CentOS (and other) distributions.
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RHEL5: Forbid installation of i386 packages on 64-bit systems?
I've been using option exactarch=1 in /etc/yum.conf for some time, and it has worked for me.
It still allows you to manually specify arch, but if you don't, it install only x86_64, not both.
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Debian/Ubuntu: Enabling "dist-upgrade" behavior for unattended-upgrades?
As was said, unattended-upgrades apparently doesn't support it, but you can easily get this behavior using cron-apt. cron-apt runs shell code, so you can change its configuration to call dist-upgrade ...
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Unable to install realm package
There is no package called realmd available in the yum repo's that you have configured, as the error quite clearly states.
Background: realmd is only included in RHEL/CentOS 7, the closest ...
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Install package in Centos 6 from Centos 7 repo
Even if you don't break the systems, it's not a good idea to add repos from more recent versions of Centos. The backports repos are provided specifically to address this problem.
In my Centos 7.4 I ...
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Is there a way to find hidden options and arguments on for a command / package that isnt documented?
You can only find hidden options and arguments from the source code, but that's not a problem as GNU/Linux is open source. On programs written in C you start by looking from main() function how the ...
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Installing a package using SCCM fails with error 0x87D00324(-2016410844) but package is not installed
Could you post the command line you are using in SCCM to install the software? Also, have you set the install to do any logs? If so, have these been consulted yet?
I've had a similar issue with ...
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CentOS working with older repos
First, caveat: Centos6 is end of life so you should be upgrading to at least Centos7.
To install epel for a particular distro go to the epel website and that will tell you how to install epel for your ...
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Disable prompts while installing a Debian package
To disable the prompts globally for reconfiguring all packages with debconf, just comment out the second line from /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf file.
Or if you're provisioning VM, add these commands ...
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Debian/Ubuntu: Enabling "dist-upgrade" behavior for unattended-upgrades?
Should I be aware of any potential problems or increased risk of breakage.
After switching to "dist-upgrade", if you use the Ubuntu repos, then I believe you'll start getting kernel updates which you ...
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How to check for modified config files on a Debian system?
This might be overkill but since somebody mentioned etckeeper and while I was investigating that I came across this other gem that might be more useful if you are attempting to figure out things "...
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DEB: "Provides:" field ignored
The section of the Debian Policy Manual quoted in @cavedon's answer is still unchanged, but outdated. Since dpkg 1.17.11 setting a version on a provided package is possible. From the changelog:
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Getting the URL to a debian .deb package
If you want to use the command line:
apt-get download --print-uris php5-imagick
The output is:
'http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/php-imagick/php5-imagick_3.2.0~rc1-1_amd64.deb' php5-...
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aptitude: list all previous recommended packages
Get a list of installed packages with missing recommended package:
aptitude search '?installed?broken-recommends'
Get a list of not installed, missing packages that are recommended by installed ...
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