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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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pkg_add Environment on FreeBSD

Suppose you want to add a package foo but when you invoke pkg_add via: pkg_add -r foo you get an error: Error: Unable to get ftp://.../foo.tbz: File unavailable ... It's not a problem since according to pkg_add's man page, all you have to do is to…
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Where to get newer RHEL 7 kernel mentioned on bugzilla.redhat.com (for CentOS)

I am using Centos 7.4 and have encountered a bug, which I found a solution for: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1502601 The problem is, solution mentions that bug is fixed in kernel-3.10.0-832.el7 and my CentOS 7.4 has kernel-3.10.0-693…
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How to know from which yum repository *URL* a package has been installed?

My sysadmin would like a proxy whitelist for some old CentOS sever I am trying to update (until now, it was cut off from the Internet). I asked to have full Internet access, so I can just update everything, and install some more, and then send him…
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Debian: Get list of installed packages while in rescue mode

How can I get a a list of installed packages from a debian setup which is mounted to /mnt/ while using a rescue mode? Scenario: Server crashed, only rescue mode possible. Setting up a new server, migrate data from old server to new with rsync. But…
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What is required in installing/maintaining a software package on a production server?

A coworker of mine and I are discussing the use (or not) of a full text search solution, namely Elasticsearch in our web application. I am the developer of the web application, and he manages the production server, which is a single Intel NUC…
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Download packages via apt without root privlidges

I'm working on a script to show differences between config files on a system and those provided in the original package. I have pretty much all of it working, except for using apt to download packages without being root. Is there a simple way to do…
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Puppet removes packages while installing "lsscsi"

We wanted to install the "lsscsi" package on all our Linux Servers and build a manifest for it: # pack_lsscsi.pp class common::pack_lsscsi { case $operatingsystem { RedHat, CentOS, Debian: { package…
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What is the equivalent in FreeBSD 7.2 to yum/yast/apt-get?

I'm new to the FreeBSD release, but am very familiar with many Linux releases. I'm attempting to (1) keep my system updated, and (2) install new packages under FreeBSD 7.2. So is there an equivalent to the yum/yast/apt-get on the other Linux…
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How to get transaction history for yum?

I would like to know how to get the transaction history of yum (i.e. get the installations, deletions, etc.), hopefully ordered from most to least recent. Is there a way to accomplish this?
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Using Chocolatey as a Package provider for Puppet

I am attempting to use Chocolatey ( http://chocolatey.org ) as a package provider for Puppet, but I continually get this error when running the Puppet agent on my Win 7 box. info: Caching catalog for ldap-windows-vm.localdomain err: Failed to apply…
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Stopping dpkg from removing symlink on package upgrade

I have a debian package that installs a file to /usr/local/java/jre/lib/ext, where /usr/local/java is a symlink to where the jvm is actually installed, in this case /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun. The new version of this package installs the jar elsewhere.…
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Configure SCCM so that files with a plus symbol (+) in the filename can be downloaded from the distribution point

We are using Microsoft SCCM 2007 to deploy program packages in our network environment. One of the packages (MathType, in case anyone's curious) has a lot of file names with a plus symbol + in them. When a package is downloaded to a client machine,…
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Is there a way to build rpm's and deb's on the same system

I have a large Java enterprise application that is required to output rpm and deb packages. Currently this means that we build the application on two different boxes, one with CentOS and the other with Ubuntu 10.04. In an ideal world I'd be able to…
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update a network of ubuntu desktops from a server

I need to update 100+ workstations that run ubuntu. The problem is that i want them to download the packages from a local server so that they don't use to much internet bandwidth. I net a kind of caching proxy for this that downloads a specific…
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Will removing a debian package remove the data?

I cannot find definite information about how a debian package should behave whilst being removed. Should it remove the data? E.g. for mysql I read data is kept which sounds logical to me (using purge will remove all stuff). But here I found the…
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