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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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Manage debian servers packages with Foreman

Is there some way how i can manage packages in debian using foreman, for example when new updates are available it will tell me and i have to approve it first before installing... i checked Katello but that is just for Red hat and fedora...or…
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Sendmail start fails after FreeBSD pkg upgrade

In the process of updating MySQL on my FreeBSD server last week, I did a pkg upgrade and after my server rebooted itself last night, sendmail won't start: /etc/mail # make start Starting: sendmailShared object "libdb-6.1.so" not found, required by…
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RPM to DPKG: Underscore in Package Name

I have a custom RPM which I convert to DPKG using the tool alien. It works with one annoyance: The input is called "foo_bar.rpm" and the output is called "foo-bar.dpkg". We have a list of packages to install via automated configuration management…
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Elastic Beanstalk silently fails to install ruby gem

I'm trying to install the github-pages ruby gem in an AWS Elastic Beanstalk app. According to the docs, to do this you add an .ebextentions/somename.config file that declares the package as a dependency. My packages.config looks like…
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Building CentOS kernel from RPM with patches (but missing files that are in the SRPMs)

I have a hardware system that I am running CentOS 7 on. I would like to add some patches to the default CentOS kernel, since I have some custom hardware to support, but I also want to track the upstream kernel releases and apply my patches on top. I…
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How do you migrate YUM packages to new server

I moved to a new server and I want to move all the packages I installed through YUM on the old server to the new one. Also I will need to move the repositories with this. How can I do that? I looked online and I'm not finding this anywhere.
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How do I install a virtual package?

I'm trying to install postgis with aptitude on Ubuntu 15.10 and is having problems with virtual packages that prevent the installation. me@laptop:~$ sudo aptitude install postgis The following NEW packages will be installed: libgdal1{ab}…
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How to install and manage software on a server?

This is probably a question where the full answer fills entire books; but I'm not a professional IT administrator, so an overview/intro would be helpful already. Suppose I have to manage a Debian server (virtual server at a hosting provider, with…
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Installing multiple packages with pkgadd

I have a directory with every package I require. Don't really want to go through several dozen files and manually invoke pkgadd for them. Is there a way to automate this process or call pkgadd to have it install everything in the directory? Thank…
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How to *securely* install MongoDB from its official repository?

The official MongoDB guide suggests that I add a .repo with gpgcheck=0 over HTTP protocol. I'm getting the feeling that this is a very insecure setup - I am worried about exposing myself to MiTM attacks this way everytime I try to update my system…
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reprepro FilterList ignores packages containing :i386

I am using reprepro to create a partial local Debian mirror. My conf/updates file looks like this: Name: update-wheezy Method: http://ftp.tu-graz.ac.at/mirror/debian Suite: wheezy Components: main contrib non-free Architectures: i386 FilterList:…
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difference from default configuration in .deb

To my great surprise I have not found an easy way to view the difference between locally altered configuration files in /etc from the defaults supplied in .deb for particular package. Some day in future when debian/ubuntu will finally migrate to…
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FreeBSD pkg_add dependencies too new

I'm trying to install Bash on a FreeBSD 8.3 (pfSense 2.1.2) system as follows: pkg_add -r http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/amd64/8.3-RELEASE/packages/Latest/bash.tbz which is failing with throwing warnings…
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Are we drowning in package managers?

The current trend is to use language-oriented package manager, such as npm or bower for javascript, pip for python, gems for ruby and so on. As I understand the need for a dependency manager when you want to deploy your application (they all can do…
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solaris: verify that access to all binaries is in accordance with the associated package

I need to verify that access (mode, owner) to all(!) binaries on a solaris 10 box are in accordance with the package that they came from. I could do something like /usr/bin/find / -type f -perm -u+x,g+x,o+x -exec ls -l {} \; > /tmp/binaries.txt and…
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