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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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how to undo system user creation

to troubleshoot a Ubuntu package manager problem I have to do sudo deluser --system messagebus I want to know what is the command to undo the above before I try it.
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Modifying deb pacakges, to alter dependencies, recursively - source required?

I need to alter a bunch of in-house developed .debs, mainly to remove some dependencies that are common to all those packages. So, my question is do I need to take the source for all of them, and recompile ? Or is there any another way to modify…
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Solutions for keeping multiple versions of packages

The basic goal I am aiming for is to be able to support older binaries and libraries in a production environment while still moving forward with newer libraries and binaries. Infrastructure setup: Ubuntu Linux Use debian packages of the relevant…
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How do you manage programs/packages installed in /home/[user]/?

I've just obtained an account on shared hosting for my webapp. To make my development environment more pleasant, I'm installing a bunch of stuff (e.g. git, vim) in my /home directory. I guess I could get them installed by my sysadmin, but doing it…
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latest openbox Yum package standalone install centos

i am trying to install openbox on centos. when i try yum install openbox i get no openbox package available nothing to do how can I install this standalone with the yum command?
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How to force a re-install from deb repository after local package screw-up?

I mistakenly screwed up my tex-live installation on lenny, by trying to locally install some squeeze packages. I've got a list of packages that are in state 'pU', and I'd like to replace them all by the a clean known to be working repository…
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Separate apps environment (distro agnostic)

What do you think about having a separate environment with it's own parsers (Python, Ruby) and different versions of them within a Linux distro. I'm sick of having to stick with distro's versions of these dependencies (eg.: Red Hat's old versions of…
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Mac Packaging: proposal for a new method(suggestions please)

Macports is the only packaging system I have checked out on the Mac and I dont like it.(it needs all its applications installed in a particular location. Thats probably the reason why it showed Python2.5 as a dependency which needs to be installed…
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How-to: install all packages from DVD when setting-up an RHEL server (text mode)?

I have tried googling, and so far have found nothing. Is there a way to select all packages from the install DVD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux when doing an installation? With the GUI installer, I know it is possible to customize each group selected.…
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Can I install an old package for Ubuntu Intrepid on Ubuntu Karmic?

I want to install a WMI client on to a ubuntu server to manage some windows web servers. The only WMI client I've found is compatible with Intrepid 8.10, whereas my server is currently running Karmic 9.10. So, can I install the old package on…
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Package Managers and Custom Installs?

Is it possible to use custom installs in conjunction with the package manager? For example, I would like to use apt-get to install EngineX because it will also install all the applicable dependencies. However, I prefer to use version 0.8.34 which I…
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Using jfrog artifactory OSS with basic API calls

I am using the OSS version over JFrog, but the basic api calls are failing for me. curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -umarco:cmVmdGtuOjAxOjAwMDAwMDAwMDA6eElCQ21ZYTA5M1ZsVzU2TWFxUG5oWVBKRnYz \…
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AlmaLinux cannot install ffmpeg

New install of AlmaLinux 8 (r8.7 (Stone Smilodon)). I ran the following in preparation to install ffmpeg: sudo dnf -y install https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm sudo yum install yum-utils -y sudo…
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Alternate Ubuntu Packages for Oracle Linux/RHEL

Can someone help me with the below packages libconfig-dev libhiredis-dev libelf-dev libevent-dev What will be alternate packages for these in RHEL or Oracle LINUX
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how to make an installed package as a service in ubuntu?

I've installed ocserv package using these commands on Ubuntu22: mkdir /usr/local/src/ocserv cd /usr/local/src/ocserv wget ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/ocserv/ocserv-0.10.9.tar.xz unxz ocserv-0.10.9.tar.xz tar xvf ocserv-0.10.9.tar cd…
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