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Most software needs other software to work. Those "other softwares" are dependencies.

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DEB: "Provides:" field ignored

I need to replace a package with a custom one, which gets its own name (foo-origpackage). To allow it to be used as drop-in replacement, I added the Provides: origpackage line to the control file. apt-cache show foo-origpackage lists the "Provides"…
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Nagios: Only send notification when all 4 host are down

As part of a larger complex, is a small office building with 4 computers. It has a single cat5 run to a non-managed switch that has 4 computers connected to it. Since I can't ping the switch, the only way I can tell if that network is up is by…
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Handling FreeBSD package upgrades using pkg_add

I'm trying to use FreeBSD's pkg_add command to install and upgrade binary packages in a build-once-install-on-multiple-machines sort of scenario. It works well when installing a new package, but upgrades are baffling me. For example, if I want to…
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yum depsolving problems - package already installed?

In trying to do a 'yum update' I've started to hit the following error on a number of my systems: --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: freetype = 2.2.1-28.el5_5 for package: freetype-devel ---> Package freetype.i386…
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How to remove duplicates after a failed yum update?

I probably ran out of memory when I tried to update packages on my CentOS system. Now when I try to run updates it got stuck: Error: Package: glibc-devel-2.17-157.el7_3.5.x86_64 (@updates) Requires: glibc-headers = 2.17-157.el7_3.5 …
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apt-get remove package that didn't install properly

I accidentally installed zabbix-frontend-php that pulled apache2 as a dependency. I don't want to use either, and I want to completely delete both packages. Unfortunately, it seems that apt-get won't let me remove zabbix until I make apache2 work…
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Compile software from source : how do I collect a dependency list?

I'd like to compile Nginx 1.9.8 from source and install it on a Ubuntu 14.04 server. However, and this goes for any software, how do I figure out which dependencies I need to install on my local system in order to build the software? Say I'd like to…
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Install libxml2.8 on RHEL 6

I want to install the software TinyOWS on a RHEL 6 server. I followed the instructions: wget http://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/tinyows-1.1.0.tar.bz2 tar xvjf tinyows-1.1.0.tar.bz2 cd tinyows-1.1.0 ./configure make make install But I couldn't…
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How to uninstall IIS from Windows Server 2008

I'm struggling with uninstalling IIS from Windows Server 2008. I went into Server Manager > Roles > Remove Roles > unchecked IIS > that prompted me to also remove dependencies. Every time the "Resume Configuration Wizard" continues after a…
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openVPN centOS 6.4 64bit dependency issues

Everytime I download the openVPN rpm (http://mirror.its.sfu.ca/mirror/CentOS-Third-Party/epel/6/x86_64/openvpn-2.2.2-1.el6.x86_64.rpm) and try to install it, I'm running into dependency issues. What I did: wget…
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Unable to install python2.7-dev due to unmet dependencies Ubuntu 12.04

Having exactly the same problem described on this page: http://qnundrum.com/answer.php?q=431114 Below is directly quoted from that page: I am unable to install python-dev becasue of unmet dependancies. How can I get around this? Deleting python is…
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rpmbuild on CentOS 6.3 64-bit - broken dependencies

I'm trying to build a package using rpmbuild on 64-bit CentOS 6.3 server. Here is the spec file: Name: test-fms Version: 1.0 Release: 1%{?dist} Summary: my FMS Package Group: Applications/Internet License: …
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Per-application library paths on CentOS

Context: After a recent version upgrade of a bunch of our server software, I've found myself in a dilemma: I have two sets of applications (Zend server and assorted utils, and a bunch of PostgreSQL management utilities) that both heavily use a…
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aide --init show lots of errors

I have a brand new centos 6.2 server. The first thing I did is yum -y install aide and then next I did aide --init. Below is a whole lot of errors I got.What does it means must I reinstall it? Or leave it ? /usr/sbin/prelink: /usr/sbin/lusermod: at…
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yum update dependency error (already installed)

i'm facing the following error: Transaction Check Error: package apr-1.3.12-1.jason.1.x86_64 (which is newer than apr-1.2.7-11.el5_6.5.cloudlinux.2.i386) is already installed This is on cloudlinux. apr-1.3.12-1.jason.1.x86_64 is installed from a…
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