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Process of installation, deletion and update the software configuration in the operating system using a pre-prepared packages.

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Unattended upgrades: kernels taking up /boot space

Typically I like to have unattended-upgrades enabled in all my Ubuntu 14.04 servers (both security and updates). The relevant configuration line for my question is the following: // Do automatic removal of new unused dependencies after the…
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Package management on Mac OS X

Can anyone recommend a package management tool like apt-get or yum for Mac OS X? I've seen that Fink has ported apt-get to Mac OS X, is this a good way to go, or are there other/better options out there?
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Safe to purge config of Debian MySQL server after installing official deb?

Can anyone tell me if it is safe to do an apt-get purge mysql-server-5.5 in Debian after removing mysql-server-5.5 and installing mysql-server via the deb-Package officially provided by MySQL? Do I risk it removing the configs being used by…
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Equivalent yum command for `apt-get install -y packagename --no-upgrade`

I was using this command in a shell script on my ubuntu server apt-get install -y packagename --no-upgrade . It will install the package if it is not already present. It will not upgrade the package. Now I want to migrate it to a centos machine. I…
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How do I remove a package in openSUSE without installing anything?

I have an openSUSE server with lots of unnecessary packages installed, which I'd like to remove. However, I find that when I try to do that zypper often wants to install other packages in their place? Why on Earth do I need to install stuff to…
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Using yum versus manual installation

Using CentOS 6.5, I'm working on automating the installation of a few run-time libraries (git, java, maven). Using yum install X, I've noticed that the installed version (via yum) may be earlier than the latest version available at the library's…
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RPM packaging conflicting libraries

What is best practice for RPM packaging something that provides a library which in name shadows a system library? Background: For an RPM-backed Linux system, I am packaging a "self-contained" app foo that wants to live under /opt and supply as many…
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Getting the URL to a debian .deb package

I'm trying to setup an IronWorker with PHP, and need to add the Imagick PECL extension or debian package's URL to the IronWorker .worker configuration. I've located the package for Ubuntu 12.04 on the above mentioned link, but I'm not sure how to…
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Upgrading packages over a large amount of servers

I have a large amount of CentOS servers that I need to periodically upgrade packages on. How can I combine automated upgrades but still retain control? Some of my issues with fully automated upgrades: Locally modified files, esp. for configuration…
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Keeping packages on a large number of openSUSE servers updated

Question for anyone out there managing a network of openSUSE machines. How do you keep track of and apply updates? I know about YaST Online Update (YOU) but it seems more geared towards keeping a single machine up to date. It doesn't seem to scale…
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GCC missing from Solaris 11, and server already deployed (no access to internet)

I'm having a peculiar problem, where a server has already been deployed, and it's no longer connected to the network. For it's original purpose, it didn't need any C/C++ compiling tools, and thus they were never installed. I have checked…
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How do you configure Perl CPAN in Solaris?

I can't seem to get CPAN installs working on a Solaris machine. Here is my current output. ~# perl -MCPAN -eshell Terminal does not support AddHistory. cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.7601) ReadLine support available…
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How can I distinguish the base packages from the rest when running rpm -qa?

I wrote a script which along other tasks connects to a remote server and pulls a list of all installed packages and installs them, Like so: echo -e "\e[36m#===# Getting list of packages to install #===#\e[0m" $ssh root@$srv 'rpm -qa --queryformat…
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Sandbox a make install command

Is there a way to list all copied files while "make install" command issued? I need them to create a list of files to be rsync'ed to another servers..
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Why aren't my packages being included from my custom yum repository?

We have a custom yum repository created using createrepo, which is hosted in an Amazon S3 bucket. We're using the yum-s3-iam plugin configured as explained in this blog post. to allow our ec2-instances to gain access to the protected URLs. However,…
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