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RPM Package Manager is a package management system used primarily for GNU/Linux operating systems. It used the .rpm file format.

RPM Package Manager is a package management system. "RPM" refers to the .rpm file format, files in this format, software packaged in such files, and the package manager itself. RPM was intended primarily for GNU/Linux distributions. The file format is the baseline package format of the Linux Standard Base.

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Parse an RPM name into its components

Is there a name-parsing tool that is part of the official RPM tool package? I have a list of filenames. Each is the filename of an RPM package. I don't have the actual packages, just the filenames. For each I need to extract the package name and…
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Why do I have .rpmnew file after an update?

I use yum to update my Fedora. After a huge update, I got many .rpmnew and .rpmsave files. I could understand if I had modified these files. But I'm sure that I didn't edit these files. What should I do with these files? What will happen at the next…
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RPM: Set Required: somepackage >= 0.5.0 AND somepackage < 0.6.0

Is it possible to set dependecy version requirements like this: Required: somepackage >= 0.5.0 AND somepackage < 0.6.0 So only somepackage 0.5.x will be automaticly installed.
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Installing HAProxy on CentOS 6.3?

This is a weird one. I've installed the EPEL for CentOS 6 via # rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm The tried to install HAProxy: # yum update # yum install haproxy But receive: Loaded plugins:…
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How to install libboost-devel on CentOS 6.3

How to install libboost-devel on CentOS 6.3? I have tried the following command: yum install libboost-devel Output: Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.ellogroup.com * extras:…
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Build RPM using source directory, not tarball

In my organization, we deploy all our software to our production machines using RPM. Our build process (which is automated) involves checking out the source from version control, tarring that source directory up, then running rpmbuild using that…
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Where can I find an online list of CentOS packages and their versions?

I am looking for an online list of the standard packages available for CentOS Linux. I know that if I had a CentOs system running, I could use yum to list packages. However, I am trying to evaluate what roadblocks we will run into, when we switch…
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How did installing this RPM create a file?

Running yum install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/redhat/7/noarch/RPMS/getpagespeed-extras-release-7-1.el7.gps.noarch.rpm creates /etc/cron.d/sysstat2 but RPM disavows the file: # rpm -ql…
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Disable SSL check rpm

When trying to run any rpm command I get the follow error. I am not sure why i am getting a curl error but i have tried many different options which have all failed. Running CentOS7 and behind a proxy [root@CentOS7]# rpm -Uvh…
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Reference for RPM spec macros (%setup, %buildroot, etc)

Which man page describes the usage of the top-level RPM spec file macros that are defined in RPM source files directly? I mean, %setup, %buildroot and the like, which are not in /usr/lib/rpm. Looking up the %setup options in a tutorial at rpm.org or…
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What does the "1:" before the package name mean in yum.log

I would be very glad if someone could explain what the 1: before the package name signifies.
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Download RPM packages for command which is already installed

I have a CentOS machine in which I already installed openssl-devel using $ yum install openssl-devel It downloaded and installed all the dependency packages. Now I need all those RPM packages. Is it possible to download only the RPM packages? When…
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Creating symlink in /usr/bin when creating an RPM

I'm creating an RPM for an application that doesn't already have one. I've got it building and installing fine in the /opt directory using $RPM_BUILD_ROOT, but I would also like to create a couple symlinks in /usr/bin so that the application is…
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Install recent ImageMagick on CentOS 6.3

I'm having a terrible time trying to get a recent version of ImageMagick installed on a CentOS 6.3 x86_64 server. First, I [downloaded] 1 the RPM from the ImageMagick site and tried to install it. That failed due to missing dependencies: error:…
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RPM Spec How to specify in package so that previous RPM is removed

Question: What do I put in the foo.spec file so that the RPMs will remove the previous RPM before installing? Description: I have created a spec file that creates rpm's for a few packages that use the same source and provide the same service, each…
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