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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Troubleshoot msiexec removing dotnet Core
I am attempting to upgrade ASP.NET Core from 2.0.3 to 2.1.5 on a group of servers. I am using a Powershell script that looks something like this:
$software = Get-ChildItem 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall'
$software +=…

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Download all package versions with aptly
How can we download all versions of a package when mirroring ?
An example is the scsi-modules which can be found here: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux/ i need them all mirrored yet aptly is only downloading the…

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Possible to remove rpm package off of remote hosts using ssh?
Good afternoon all! long time lurker, first time poster here.
I am trying to use a script to remove an rpm remotely (foo). There are too many hosts to efficiently do this manually.
There are multiple versions of this *.rpm installed across the…

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"Couldn't find package fail2ban"?
Ubuntu Server 9.10
Hi Guys,
I think this one is a simple one... I'm trying to install fail2ban and get the following error:
$ sudo apt-get install fail2ban
Reading package lists...
Done Building dependency tree Reading state information...
Done…

Mike B
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different requirements with yum and rpm for the same package
I have a yum repo:
[sensu-checks-prod]
name=sensu-checks-prod
baseurl=http://our.internal.repo/pulp/repos/Sensu_checks_el6-prod/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
Which is composed of gem to RPMs created with fpm
I have edited this package to change the version…

exeral
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Installing CentOS packages on fedora from repository
Is there a way to install CentOS packages on Fedora through yum (dnf) repository? I'm trying to install freeswitch, but their own repository only provides builds for RHEL and CentOS. I assume CentOS and Fedora are compatible enough to install rpm…

Vasily Pankratov
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How to install a minimal version of "lsb_release" on CentOS
comming from debian i am currently working with centos7.
i am trying to install the lsb_release command, which is quite small.
looking for packages which provide lsb_release with
yum provides */lsb_release
shows me the following packages which…

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How to use wildcards with pkg-upgrade?
As an example, when I want to list all installed packages of php70 I can just enter:
pkg info php70\*
But I cannot use the wildcard in this for pkg upgrade:
pkg upgrade php70\*
When I do get this message:
pkg: php70* is not installed, therefore…

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Install PHP 5.6 on CentOS 7 - No package php56 available - yum misconfiguration?
I'm trying to install PHP 5.6.x on my CentOS 7.2.1511 installation.
I've followed this guide:
https://webtatic.com/packages/php56/
For some reason, the php56 cannot be found. I've also tried other repositories, like Remi's RPM repository, but also…

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Skipping the InRelease step when apt-get update (and go directly to Release)
I've just installed a fresh Xenial on a server box and almost immediately tried to install Docker on it.
The Docker installation page says that you have to create a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list file and add just the docker repo source in…

gfd
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How to determine the location of files installed by a package on CentOS
Is there a simple yum command or some other that indicates where abouts the files belonging to a particular package have been installed?

nedned
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After upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS, MOTD always says 0 new packages can be updated
I'm not a server expert and so I'm experiencing some upgrade issues with Ubuntu. A little history: my Digital Ocean droplet was running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, then a few months ago I upgraded to a newer HWE to continue to receive security updates for the…

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How do I downgrade puppetdbquery?
I'm getting an error on puppet runs which use puppetdb queries:
Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Info: Retrieving plugin
Info: Loading facts
Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: undefined method `server_urls' for…

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Where can I get libcgroup and policycoreutils-python from on CentOS7?
I have a VM created from Vagrant centos/7.
I'm trying to install docker, but it doesn't work. I tried with a SaltStack minion and just vagrant ssh and sudo yum install. But it tells me that it can't find these dependencies:
--> Finished Dependency…

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How to manage third-party Nagios/Icinga plugins?
What is the recommended way to manage installed Nagios (or Icinga) plugins?
At the moment all plugins on my system are installed from Debian/Ubuntu packages, so this takes care of updates, file integrity and clean deinstallation. Is there a similar…

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