A package is a specific piece of software which can be installed and uninstalled on a system.
Questions tagged [packages]
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rkhunter reports change in file properties, but I don't see that they've been updated by yum
Maybe I'm being overcautious, but I recently received the following warnings from rkhunter:
Warning: The file properties have changed:
File: /bin/dmesg
Current hash: e94b12f49e53695bf5161a445c00b3f97e37e9a8
Stored hash :…

Jeremy Blum
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Ubuntu 20.04 packages with an "{u}" in their name
After an upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04, some packages have "{u}" in their name. I have looked for the answer, but it looks like either google is promptly ignoring the curly braces during search or this is does not happen much. Can someone help me with…

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Ubuntu is setting up MySQL when installing Fpart
I'm trying to install fpart, but having mysql error:
# apt install fpart
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
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Roman Newaza
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RPM from installed package
The question is simple. I have an old CentOS 7 system that has some installed packages with specific version numbers. However, these versions are unavailable now in the repository they were downloaded from (namely php and about 20 php modules) I…

Bert
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No package php-imap available on CentOS 6
I'm running a dedicated server with CentOS 6 64bit, here is the output when trying to install IMAP:
[root@localhost ~]# yum install php-imap
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.nforce.com
*…

Jabare
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Unable to install any packages even after enabling remi or adding other mirrors
I'm trying to install the php-xml package. I've tried various solutions and contacted support about this issue yet the following still prompts whenever i'm trying to install the php-xml package.
My system is CentOS 7 With DA 1.53
The following…

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No packages matching ** is available in ansible
I'm trying to install a list of packages with ansible, and I can't seem to understand what the problem is.
- name: Add PHP 7.2 repo
apt_repository:
repo: ppa:ondrej/php
state: present
register: ppastable
- name: install…

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Is there a way to find hidden options and arguments on for a command / package that isnt documented?
On Linux if I install a new package and it contains commands I haven't used before, is there a way to find hidden options and args that are not documented in the MAN page or with the --help option.
Iv come across a couple of packages recently where…

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docker container linux-tools-generic package
My goal is to use perf to run performance tests on some Docker images. By default, the images I'm using don't come with perf. As such, I tried
apt-get update
apt-get install linux-tools-generic
to get perf, but I got
E: Unable to locate package…

Karan
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Install package in Centos 6 from Centos 7 repo
I have Centos 6 and Centos 7 machines setup so that the first uses mount.cifs in order to mount volumes from the second through a proprieraty software.
The problem is that the Centos 6 version of cifs-utils (which provides mount.cifs) is much older…

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Installing packages in SLES 12 SP3
I'm new to Suse and I have no idea how to do anything here. This is something I'm terribly new at and I can't figure out some basic stuff. First off, I'm used to Ubuntu. To install packages in Suse I'm using Zypper. It's fairly easy to do so and…

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Debian 9 build PHP7.0 with --with-fpm-acl fails
I need to enable support for POSIX ACL in PHP-FPM. I can get ACL list with getfacl and set them with setfacl -m from shell so my kernel support it. I've downloaded sources of PHP7.0_7.0.19 with
$ cd /tmp/
$ apt-get source php7.0
and updated the…

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Why apt on debian is showing package version different than command version
I was automating some packages requirements with ansible and wanted to freeze their version and I found out I am not sure which version is being used by the system.
The debian apt-get commands give a different value than the installed command…

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Unable to install realm package
I am trying to join Centos 6.5 to Active Directory domain . I have upgraded all the packages using yum upgrade. but I'm unable to install realm package, it say 'no package realmd available'. Can someone help me out?

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"Class 'XMLWriter' not found" Error in php | php55w-xml-5.5.24-1.w6.x86_64.rpm is missing
I am getting this error in PHP in server Fatal Error (E_ERROR): Class 'XMLWriter' not found . we are using Cent OS 6
After exploring some sites, we found that we need to install php55w-xml-5.5.24-1.w6.x86_64.rpm. But the link is not working, I am…

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