Questions tagged [package-management]

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

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Is there a way to get Satellite 5.3 to list which packages are installed on each system?

I'm trying to generate a list of all the packages installed per server without having to go through each using rpm. I'm thinking Satellite should be able to provide this in a decent (hopefully easily parsed) format.
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Listing which repository a package will be installed from using yum

I am trying to run yum completely from local repositories. How do I tell if yum is using some other repositories? Is there a way to list the locations from which yum is getting the package?
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Gentoo emerge a package gives 404s - Do I need to --sync?

I've got a gentoo server here. It hasn't been upgraded in a good long while. I just tried to emerge a package, and it tries to download things, but all fails with 404. I can get other web access fine. Do I need to do an emerge --sync?
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How to copy the appropriate config file, with CHEF, in a recipe?

I'm starting to learn how develop recipes to chef. I need to install Ganglia Monitor in some servers (or nodes in ganglia literature). So that's why I'm checking if the plataform is ubuntu, centOS and many others to install the correct package. The…
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Upgrading ImageMagick RHEL 5

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 -resize 600 thumb.jpg Error: /rangecheck in…
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If I want to run an application in Linux without using a package manager, is my only option to compile it from source?

I have 2 side projects I'd like to complete at work: Enable wiki users to authenticate against the corporate Active Directory (LDAP) server. Setup a code review tool for my dev team. Here's the problem. The Linux server where the tools will…
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make failed during pecl install oauth

I'm trying to install the pecl oauth package, but get an error: root@ubuntu:/# pecl install oauth downloading oauth-1.2.3.tgz ... Starting to download oauth-1.2.3.tgz (45,531 bytes) .............done: 45,531 bytes 6 source files, building running:…
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OpenSUSE reinstall Yast

I just can't understand what just happend? I installed an openSUSE system, the original plan was to use it as an internal DNS Server for easyer access to all of the internal network computers. However something wasn't right with the dns server…
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Ubuntu Server 12.04 Unable to locate package dhcp3-server

I have done a fresh install of Ubuntu Server version 12.04 and am trying to install a dhcp server package using the following command: sudo apt-get install dhcp3-server However I get this: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency…
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Launching R but it can't find liblzma.so.2

I have R installed but when I try to launch it I get: ubuntu@ip-xx-250-202:/mnt/galaxyData/custom/MY_MSG_RUN$ R /mnt/galaxyData/custom/bin/lib64/R/bin/exec/R: error while loading shared libraries: liblzma.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No…
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Which repo is rsnapshot in on CentOS 6?

I have enabled the epel and remi repositories, but: yum install rsnapshot produces No package rsnapshot available. rsnapshot was in EPEL on prior versions... was it removed?
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Convert Chef recipe from Centos to Ubuntu

I'm trying to adapt a chef recipe developed for Centos to Ubuntu, and thinking that there must be a better way. Methodology (I'm using Vagrant): vagrant reload Look through log to find the package that broke Example: [Wed, 04 Jul 2012 06:24:34…
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Determining the version of a packaged process on linux

It's easy to know which version of a package is installed on a linux distro: package-manager info i.e.: yum info ntp However, is there a 'linux convention' sort of way to know what the package version of a running process is? The…
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getting permission denied while creating rpm through rpm package manager on RHEL 5.3

I am trying to create rpm through rpm package manager. Following is my spec file: **# This is a spec file for openldappkg** %define _topdir /osp/rpmBuildOpenLdap %define name openldap %define release 1 %define version 2.4.30 %define…
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Firefox packaging to include addons for network installation

While looking up information on FireFox here I came across the post: Non-IE browsers wont auto-authenticate. which showed how to handle the issue of integrated login for FireFox which also briefly explained how to edit the package to handle setting…
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