Process of installation, deletion and update the software configuration in the operating system using a pre-prepared packages.
Questions tagged [package-management]
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Modifying deb pacakges, to alter dependencies, recursively - source required?
I need to alter a bunch of in-house developed .debs, mainly to remove some dependencies that are common to all those packages. So, my question is do I need to take the source for all of them, and recompile ? Or is there any another way to modify…
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Solutions for keeping multiple versions of packages
The basic goal I am aiming for is to be able to support older binaries and libraries in a production environment while still moving forward with newer libraries and binaries.
Infrastructure setup:
Ubuntu Linux
Use debian packages of the relevant…
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How do you manage programs/packages installed in /home/[user]/?
I've just obtained an account on shared hosting for my webapp. To make my development environment more pleasant, I'm installing a bunch of stuff (e.g. git, vim) in my /home directory. I guess I could get them installed by my sysadmin, but doing it…
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latest openbox Yum package standalone install centos
i am trying to install openbox on centos.
when i try yum install openbox
i get
no openbox package available
nothing to do
how can I install this standalone with the yum command?
user57808
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How to force a re-install from deb repository after local package screw-up?
I mistakenly screwed up my tex-live installation on lenny, by trying to locally install some squeeze packages.
I've got a list of packages that are in state 'pU', and I'd like to replace them all by the a clean known to be working repository…
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Separate apps environment (distro agnostic)
What do you think about having a separate environment with it's own parsers (Python, Ruby) and different versions of them within a Linux distro. I'm sick of having to stick with distro's versions of these dependencies (eg.: Red Hat's old versions of…
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Mac Packaging: proposal for a new method(suggestions please)
Macports is the only packaging system I have checked out on the Mac and I dont like it.(it needs all its applications installed in a particular location. Thats probably the reason why it showed Python2.5 as a dependency which needs to be installed…
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How-to: install all packages from DVD when setting-up an RHEL server (text mode)?
I have tried googling, and so far have found nothing.
Is there a way to select all packages from the install DVD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux when doing an installation?
With the GUI installer, I know it is possible to customize each group selected.…
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Can I install an old package for Ubuntu Intrepid on Ubuntu Karmic?
I want to install a WMI client on to a ubuntu server to manage some windows web servers. The only WMI client I've found is compatible with Intrepid 8.10, whereas my server is currently running Karmic 9.10. So, can I install the old package on…
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Package Managers and Custom Installs?
Is it possible to use custom installs in conjunction with the package manager?
For example, I would like to use apt-get to install EngineX because it will also install all the applicable dependencies.
However, I prefer to use version 0.8.34 which I…
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What does apt's "failed in buffer_write(fd)" error message mean?
I have a server and am trying to do an apt-get upgrade, and get the following error message. What does it mean?
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-27-generic_2.6.24-27.45_i386.deb: failed in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1)
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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 matches.
How do I narrow down apk search to a…
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I want to update a debian package, but apt deletes packages that are needed
I can see that my xfce4-panel version didn't get upgraded to 4.16 (it's still 4.12) after upgrading debian from buster to bullseye. So I wrote sudo apt install xfce4-panel to try to upgrade xfce4-panel. But then I'm greeted with this suggestion to…
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RHEL Auditbeat - "existing_package" spam
I have an RHEL (7.6) server I'm testing Auditbeat on. (on-premise, vmware)
I've noticed that, every day at 5:20AM, there is a spam of several hundred "existing_package" events.
I don't see any automatic updates being on, but there might be a…
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Broken MySQL Installation, Cant Install or Uninstall
So, ive installed MySQL but in the middle my PC Decided to crash and the Linux Terminal died therefore cancelling the operation... Now when i try to install it i get this
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully…
