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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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Update open-vm-tools

As per vulnerability CVE-2022-31676 I'm trying to update my Oracle Linux 8.6 systems open-vm-tools to 12.1.0. However, I'm finding that this package isn't still in the repository, so I have been trying to locate it in another RHEL-based…
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What does apt's "failed in buffer_write(fd)" error message mean?

I have a server and am trying to do an apt-get upgrade, and get the following error message. What does it mean? E: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-27-generic_2.6.24-27.45_i386.deb: failed in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1)
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apk command to find which package installs a program? [Alpine Linux]

I want to install program /usr/bin/time using Alpine Linux package manager apk (time is a program runtime measurement tool). But I don't know which package to install. apk search time reports 147 matches. How do I narrow down apk search to a…
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I want to update a debian package, but apt deletes packages that are needed

I can see that my xfce4-panel version didn't get upgraded to 4.16 (it's still 4.12) after upgrading debian from buster to bullseye. So I wrote sudo apt install xfce4-panel to try to upgrade xfce4-panel. But then I'm greeted with this suggestion to…
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Broken MySQL Installation, Cant Install or Uninstall

So, ive installed MySQL but in the middle my PC Decided to crash and the Linux Terminal died therefore cancelling the operation... Now when i try to install it i get this 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully…
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EPEL 7 proftp package only outdated version available 1.3.5e

Im a curious why there is no new version for the epel-x86_64 ftp server package proftp in the epel 7 repo: https://centos.pkgs.org/7/epel-x86_64/proftpd-1.3.5e-10.el7.x86_64.rpm.html There is only verion 1.3.5e avaiable from 09/Apr/2017. The latest…
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Where are the official sources for libzbar?

zbar is a project that provides a barcode/qr-code scanning library and command line programs. libzbar0 is provided in version 0.22 on Debian buster (our Docker images) and in version 0.23 on Ubuntu 20.04 (GitHub actions; same on Fedora 33 btw.). Our…
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How do I reliably determine on Ubuntu when the latest version of a package was made available?

How to create a command, on Ubuntu, to report when the latest version of a given package was released? (I need to check this as part of proving that we install certain updates on certain servers within a given time.) Right now, my script does the…
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Oracle Linux 8.3 can't find libyaml-devel

I'm evaluating Oracle Linux as a CentOS alternatives. During my tests I have to compile a package depending on libyaml-devel but the lib isn't present in the repo. I had the impression Oracle Linux would provide the same packages as RHEL. So why I…
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How does EOL work for a specific package that is part of the main repo in a Linux distribution?

I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, which has an EOL date of April 2023. go1.10 is included as part of Ubuntu 18.04's main repository. This is already considered EOL. (https://endoflife.date/go) According to https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle The…
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How do I do a clean upgrade of roundcube on Debian buster?

I have a Debian buster machine on an AWS instance. /etc/apt/sources already has the backport url in it. I have installed Roundcube already using the stable release. I want to upgrade this package to the testing release with as little trouble as…
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Unable to install package via yum while using a docker container

I have been working on this project forever, every anomaly has been rectified, the only thing remaining appears to be a docker limitation but I'm still going to try my luck here, in case there's another way. -> I've created a container for CentOS 7…
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How to run a powershell script with logged in user using SCCM 2002

I have a PowerShell script (package) which need to run with the logged in domain user account in order to get a file from intranet site. It should be silent installation without any user intervention By default, SCCM launching the script in system…
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Docker enterprise installation on CIS AMI of windows 2016 server

I am trying to install the Docker enterprise edition on CIS AMI of windows 2016 server using ansible. I am using PowerShell module for this installation. The code is as below for the docker installation task. - name: Install Docker for windows. …
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Unable to install mbstring for php7.1 on server running multiple PHP versions

My Centos6 webserver is running php 5.6 and php 7.1 (webmin/virtualmin). I already have mbstring installed for php 5.6, but I also need it for 7.1. When I do yum install php71w-mbstring I get the following error: Error: php71w-common conflicts with…
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