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Process of installation, deletion and update the software configuration in the operating system using a pre-prepared packages.

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Moving away from Dreamhost's Debian archive to Debian proper

This is currently the sources.list file with a hosted Dreamhost account running Debian # Generated by ndn-autoupdate deb http://debian.di.newdream.net/ lenny ndn deb http://debian.newdream.net/ lenny main contrib non-free deb…
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Why doesn't openSUSE Linux upgrade itself through its software repositories?

openSUSE - fast becoming my favourite Linux distro on the client - doesn't seem to upgrade itself through its own configured software repositories. Do we know why this is the case? Is it a money-making thing where they can then sell upgrade CDs /…
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Listing the available installation of depothelper (HP-UX)

I'm using depothelper to install software in HP-UX. So far, I was only able to search for packages using common sense and intuition. I would like to know if there's a way to tell which packages are available for installation (like yum list or…
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Can I install packages from the EPEL 6 repository on CentOS 5.2?

Further to this question: yum package conflict installing mysqlclient package I noticed that the EPEL 6 repository has Zabbix 1.8.4 rpm's. Can I point CentOS 5.2 at this repository and install Zabbix from there?
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yum package conflict installing mysqlclient package

I'm trying to build and install Zabbix 1.8 on my CentOS 5.2 server. This server has MySQL 5.0 installed from the standard CentoOS 5.2 repository. ./configure ... is failing because of: configure: error: Not found mysqlclient library When I do yum…
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Replace file belonging to an installed RPM with a different RPM using YUM

How to replace a file belonging to an installed RPM with a different RPM (a hotfix RPM) that includes the same file, using YUM. YUM does not provide the --replacefiles option (available in the rpm command) and hence fails due to the conflict between…
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debian package manager.. php version: 5.3.3-7

I installed apache2 and php with apt-get. But if i check which version did it install on packet manager it's 5.3.3-7 Can you tell me what 3-7 mean? Last version of php is 5.3.5. Thanks
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Text-based package manager GUI for CentOS

I come from Debian Linux. In that OS I used aptitude for a neat ncurses text-based GUI package manager. What exists for CentOS that is the same?
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Yum - is it possible to search all remote packages for a specific file?

It frequently happens that I forget which remote packages contain the files necessary for something to install; I want to be able to search them for these files.
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Debian packaging, updates to a database

I've a planned consecutive updates on a debian package I have for internal use on several servers. Now, the updates have to happen one after each other at different times and some of the servers might jump several versions so updates can't be…
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Alter an existing logrotate file on package install

I have created a debian package that sets up awstats and the required scripts for a couple of hostnames in a server I have. My problem is with logrotate, I already update the stats with a cron job I set up on package install but I need to update…
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Ubuntu reinstall apache

Apache has been corrupted somehow and now it just displays the following error when going to any page. Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if…
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Which package management system should we use to do deployments?

We're a small software company with only one product - an web site (8 million visits per month) that is load balanced (around 20 servers for web serving). At the moment we do weekly releases, aiming towards continuous deployment. Our servers are…
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Locating installation directories on Ubuntu

Is there any standard way to locate installation directories of applications, installed with aptitude on Ubuntu?
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Install Package dependencies separately over Cloud

Install Package dependencies separately over Cloud Hi all, I am working on a project that sets up packages on the cloud. For example, If i want to setup Drupal, i need seperate machines to maintain separate tasks, like mysql in one machine(cloud…
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