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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How to resolve Debian virtual package dependency error
When attempting to update a locally-maintained package on a Debian wheezy system I get the following message:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
local-tenielle : Depends: perl:any which is a virtual package.
The following actions will…
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FreeBSD -no internet access -no packages
I just used this command:
make -DBATCH install clean
and realized that I don't have access to internet from FreeBSD.
If I type the address manually the browser doesn't let me see them.
Can someone tell me if there is a place to retrieve a full…
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Is it possible to configure pip, gem, cabal, pear, npm to do unattended upgrades like apt?
The world of package managers is a wonderful one. If one package isn't available in your Linux distributions package manager chances are that it's available in any of the language specific package managers.
But as soon as you install a package…
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How to manage server configurations for small projects and servers?
I have been developing a web application which recently launched. Now I am continuing with improvements and want to create a staging server similar to the production server.
I know of the existence of tools like Ansible, Puppet and Chef, however…
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debian LTS : how to keep packages up-to-date with last security fixes using apt
What's the best way to keep packages up-to-date (ie with the last security fixes) without worried about major version update ?
For instance, apache2 for squeezeis is 2.2.16 (https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/apache2)
However, last apache2…
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%files section in building rpm from source using Red Hat package Manager
I am creating customized rpm through source. I want to know what is the use of %files section.
These are the files that rpm will include in the package or it needs these files for rpm creation purpose? How to know which files should be listed under…
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Reinstalling the uninstalled packages using a bash script to make things back to normal
Well, I created a bash script which seems to work on my situation. Here I have installed a random small program to catch other error messages & saved it as "ls.sh" filename.
for package in $(apt remove hello --purge 2>&1 |
grep "warning: files list…
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Libc6 is broken
After updating python version libc6 was broken on my Ubuntu 12.04
I have libc6 2.18-4 and it broken.
It was installed from unstable repo. From precise repo I see 2.15.0 version of libc6. But if I try to force it, I see long list of "To be removed"…
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Trouble installing rpm package
This is probably a dumb question. I need to install the rpm package as listed here: http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=CESA-2012:0467 but I simply don't know where it is hosted. I run rpm -Uvh freetype-2.2.1-31.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm…
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Is it possible for packets sent using TCP to ever arrive with different data?
Sometimes in my networking library when I send a packet the data arrives different than when I sent it. I assumed that TCP guarenteed exact delivery. Is this true? Or must there be something wrong in the packaging and receiving process of my own…
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