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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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Managing myriad package repositories

On testing, development, and some other server and workstation environments, I use a variety of package repositories (with CentOS, for example, these include: remi, epel, rpmforge, jpackage, and others). Outside of manually installing the repo…
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How do I securly update a *BSD system?

Security is a major concern. Every major Linux distribution uses signed packages. But the FreeBSD systems in the office downloading unsigned packages/ports via FTP. Is there a solution that would allow me to securely update a *BSD on a malicious…
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ubuntu server: SSH banner telling to update packages but nothing to update

When I connect to my Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS server I get the following banner: 25 packages can be updated. 15 updates are security updates. However if I run package upgrades/updates nothing comes up: $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get…
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Handling FreeBSD package upgrades using pkg_add

I'm trying to use FreeBSD's pkg_add command to install and upgrade binary packages in a build-once-install-on-multiple-machines sort of scenario. It works well when installing a new package, but upgrades are baffling me. For example, if I want to…
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yum depsolving problems - package already installed?

In trying to do a 'yum update' I've started to hit the following error on a number of my systems: --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: freetype = 2.2.1-28.el5_5 for package: freetype-devel ---> Package freetype.i386…
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How to do the equivalent of rpm -qf in AIX? (Which package does this file belong to?)

So. I have a binary in /opt/freeware/bin in an AIX PPC machine whose origin I don't know. It could be an RPM -- most open-source AIX RPMs install in /opt/freeware. But no such luck. It must have been from an installp package (.bff). How can I…
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How-to: add an ISO/DVD of RHEL to the Repository list under Gnome for installing packages

I want to add the original ISO I installed RHEL from as a repository under the Add/Remove Software tool in Gnome. How do I do this? To clarify, I know what I need to do (add a repository) - I need the how. I have been unsuccessful in determining the…
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How to handle Puppet version differences between linux distributions

We're a small webdev shop that's investigating to roll out Puppet on various development and production servers. The puppetmaster is an Ubuntu 10.04 server with Puppet 0.25.4, from Ubuntu's repo. Some puppet clients are Ubuntu with puppet 0.25.4,…
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Using gentoo, how does one stick -9999 ebuild to a specific svn revision?

As an example given the django-9999 ebuild, to match a developer's environment I need to checkout R12120 from trunk. Installing Django manually is not an option due to package management reasons. But there is also no ebuild in portage for 1.2 beta…
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Disable JavaScript in Acrobat Reader

Does anyone know where Acrobat Reader stores the setting to disable JavaScript? I'd like to centrally apply an update (through a policy, or a startup script, or a login script) on every machine on our network rather than sending everyone an email…
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yum priority plugin does not allow to install package

I want to enable priority plugin for yum which is called yum-plugin-priorities. After that I enable and install that plugin I see that plugin is working but behavior is weird. Even I know package is exist in one of my repository yum says package is…
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How to get package info on YUM

I am new to unix systems, so forgive me if I am not being clear or saying something that makes no sense. I just created an Amazon Linux AMI machine and I saw it comes with Java 7 (1.7.0_131) but I want Java 8, so I found this thread here showing how…
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How to install an older version of php (5.2.17) in Linux?

I want to study some security vulnerabilities in php 5.2.17, but I can't install it from source, because then I need also all the older versions of all the other application which have something to do with php. How I can install an older version of…
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Upgrading PostgreSQL on EC2 with minimum impact to existing configuration

I have PostgreSQL 9.2 installed on an EC2 instance, with yum install. I now need to upgrade to PostgreSQL 9.4. I've noticed that yum list lists 9.2, 9.3 and 9.4 as completely separate packages, so I can't just upgrade using yum upgrade…
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NixOS reproducible users and packages?

I'm new to NixOS and trying to learn its concepts. One of the reasons I'm excited about it is I'm hoping it will be able to give me a reproducible system configuration, similar to using Ansible for localhost. However, I am not sure how to achieve…
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