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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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Search for installed unavailable packages (backports and 3rd party)

I would like to remove any packages that I installed from third party repositories. I recently installed some backports from PPA repositories, and I suspect one of them broke my Ubuntu 12.04 server system. Is there any way I can list all currently…
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How can I manage kernel modules built from source in Debian?

I am installing Debian squeeze on a brand-new Mac Mini, and the Broadcom NIC in it only works with the latest tg3 module from Broadcom. I can build this module easily enough, but performing a manual build and overwriting the tg3.ko that comes with…
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Backporting tomcat7 for Debian squeeze

I am creating .deb installation packages for our software, which has a dependency on tomcat7. Unfortunately, this package is not present in Debian squeeze, which ships only with the package tomcat6. The upcoming release of Debian 7 (Wheezy) ships…
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Puppet package installation on Linux/CentOS

I am new to Puppet - I have been playing around learning the basics. Most of the examples ( except the very basic ones ) that are on the puppet page do not work for me - either some dependency is missing or package is not found. I do not see the…
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CentOS: What package includes X file

On CentOS, using yum, or another software (text mode). How can I search for a package, for example to search for the package that includes smbclient?
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Any advantage to building from source if I can get it from repo of a similar distro

I'm using Amazon Linux AMI, which seems to be some RHEL or CentOS offshoot. I've read that it should be binary compatible with RHEL. My question is: is there any advantage to compile a package from source as opposed to using the RHEL or CentOS repos…
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Debian package performance on XFS, btrfs, ext3, ext4

I did 4 clean installations of debian 6 and measured time of installing some average virtual package. FS options are default. time apt-get install build-essential I got very strange results (min:sec, less is faster): XFS: 3:12 btrfs: 2:45 ext3: …
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Best practices recovering from a failed UNIX package upgrade?

When upgrading or installing a package through a package manager like Aptitude, what do you do to ensure everything works afterwards? If the package manager would break something after running, do you have a checklist or plan to recover from…
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Managing installation of non-distro software

I'm looking for ways to manage the installation of non-distro software, with multiple versions of the same software installed simultaneously. For example we'd have ProgramA 1.6 and ProgramB 1.7 installed simultaneously, and users would be able to…
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How can I privately distribute an Ubuntu (Debian) package that overrides any official release?

I occasionally need to make minor source modifications to standard Ubuntu packages for use on a collection of servers that I manage. I would like to publish these on a PPA (such as launchpad.net) so that I can install and keep them up to date…
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Using a Patched libresolv and OpenSSH on Ubuntu

We've got a couple of dozen Ubuntu systems (ranging from 8.04 to 9.40, both desktops and servers with only serial console access on which we'd like to run a patched version of glibc. In particular, this is to fix the inability of glibc's resolver to…
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Why the strange Ubuntu MySQL version?

On my local desktop I'm running Ubuntu 9.04, Jaunty. I've got mysql-server installed, the version is "5.1.30really5.0.75-0ubuntu10.2" that's a very strange version string. Why is it "...really...." ?
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How to find out all the software packages installed by default on a linux install?

I am thinking of getting a VPS and using Ubuntu with it. I've installed linux on home servers and I almost always choose a very bare system and then install packages manually after the install is complete. However for a VPS, some providers have…
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How to completely remove and re-install python (without yum)?

I have a corrupted / missing installation of Python on a CentOS 5 server, and yum won't help me reinstall because python is a dependency. When I try installing python-2.4.3-44.el5.x86_64 from the rpm, it informs me that python-libs is required. But…
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apt-cacher/approx equivalent for Centos

I am looking at setting up several Centos machines in my network and would like to have them update from a centralised server on the network. I am hoping to save bandwidth by not having to update each OS from the internet. The solutions I have found…
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