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A package is a specific piece of software which can be installed and uninstalled on a system.

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How to make a normal user can install package with `pkg_add` on FreeBSD?

How to make a normal user can install package with pkg_add on FreeBSD? pkg_add -r command fails with normal user with sudo. Downloading succeeds, but installation fails with this error message. Equal command executed successfully with root…
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puppet 2.6.4 .deb package

Is there any 3rd party repositories that keeps up to date puppet client versions? I am looking for a puppet 2.6.4 .deb package?
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Clean installation of RHEL 5.5 claims package "desktops" is missing

I'm a student worker in the CS department of my university, so please forgive me for any unprofessional descriptions. Simplified explanations are appreciated. I recently replaced some bad graphics cards in a few public workstations. The machines are…
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Turn existing Red Hat Server into desktop VM

Is it possible to download an existing Red Hat installation and use this in a VM that I can run on the desktop. The problem I'm trying to solve is building an exact replicate of a production server to run locally so we can debug specific issues with…
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Problems removing squid fro Linux 2.6

i want to remove squid package from my Linux box kernel 2.6 root@t:~/devel # rpm -i squid-2.6.STABLE18-5.endian6.i586.rpm --nodeps package squid-2.6.STABLE18-5.endian6 is already installed root@t:~/devel # rpm -e…
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How to modify an ebuild on Gentoo

This is my first time using Gentoo and I am quite lost. I want to install Nginx. The current ebuild does not have support for limitproxy http://nginxlimitproxy.sourceforge.net I can see I have to modify SRC_URI to add the source of the new plugin.…
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Backporting packages should reverse dependencies be rebuilt

I'm using Ubuntu Jaunty on a few machines and am in the process of backporting / custom compiling a few deb packages to update PHP and OpenSSL. My question is though, should I also be recompiling all of the reverse depedencies for OpenSSL ?…
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What's a "safe" way of installing a Debian package that isn't in backports?

I want to grab nginx 0.8.x but I realize that 0.7 is in Lenny-backports. How can I "safely" install it so that maybe in the future if I decide to download a newer release from aptitude, it doesn't mess up?
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Installing php-hash on SUSE 10.1

I need the PHP function hash_hmac which is not part of my distribution on my virtual server running SUSE 10.1. Trying to install it with yast2 --install php-hash leads to the following message: No installation source is defined. Only installed…
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Error when trying to install iRedMail

I'm trying to install iRedMail mail server, but when I run the installation script, I get the following error message: The following packages have unmet dependencies: php5-common: Conflicts: php5-mhash php5-mhash: Depends: phpapi-20060613 …
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Configuring and installing VS package management

Let's take Ettercap (Can be any software) and configure it: sudo -c "./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ettercap" An error arises: checking for libpcap... no Is Libpcap missing ? NO ! Ettercap wants the "devel" package, not only for libpcap but for…
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Ubuntu package question

I run Ubuntu, and If i type the following in a terminal, I start a new instance of memcached, right? # memcached -vv How can I target the the current instance of memcached in terminal? It would help me to see the very-verbose mode on my already…
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Pushing out application packages with SCCM 2007 quickly

When you set an application to install from by creating an advertisment, is there a way to force the process to occur quicker? I know that on the client you can initiate the machine policy and the user policy but I dont want to have to touch the…
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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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Install i486 .package onto x64 CentOS

I am trying to install a ".package" file with Autopackage onto my x64 CentOS server and i receive the below statement. -sh-3.2$ bash armagetronad-dedicated-0.2.8.3.1.i486-generic-linux-gnu.package Sorry, Autopackage only supports x86 32-bit systems,…
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