A package is a specific piece of software which can be installed and uninstalled on a system.
Questions tagged [packages]
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aptitude: list all previous recommended packages
Sometimes when installing a package, aptitude recommends several other packages.
Is there a way to show all previous recommended packages of all installed packages?
Edit:
Thanks for the replys so far. I already tried:
aptitude show ~i | grep…
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How to install package with yum without updating repository information?
I want to install some packages from repository but always when I'm trying to yum install packagename yum updates db:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Determining fastest mirrors
updates/metalink …
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How do I browse CentOS packages?
I have been using Debian for some time but am brand new to CentOS. How can I browse CentOS packages in a web browser like I do at packages.debian.org?
If there is no such website, can someone give me a quick command line of how to look up a packages…
Tom
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Why isn't there a openjdk-8-jdk package on debian anymore?
On a docker container running the latest debian image I'm unable to install the openjdk-8-jdk package. Why not suddenly?
$ apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk
E: Unable to locate package openjdk-8-jdk
Why not, there it is:…
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Where to get debian mirror status?
The following command fails right now (14:16 in EET timezone):
docker run debian:buster apt-get update
The error being:
$ docker run debian:buster apt-get update
Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease [122 kB]
Get:1…
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How to completely remove a package in Ubuntu (like it never existed)
When I remove a package in Ubuntu using apt-get remove package, it always seems to leave behind a lot of files... for example, log files in /var/log, config files in /etc, data in /var/lib, etc.
How do I COMPLETELY remove every trace of a package in…
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Why is bluetooth support one of the default packages in "Base" when doing an RHEL/CentOS server install?
This is an issue that has bugged me for a long time - why would the default server installation of RHEL?CentOS include desktop/laptop packages like bluetooth?
When using kickstart, I will usually start with the Base packages set, and then customize…
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How to Get a List of All Root / Main Installed Packages on Debian
Is there a way to get all "main" packages that were installed via aptitude in Debian? By "main" I mean the package names that were given to aptitude via the install command. The equivalent of a Gentoo "world" file.
To my knowledge you can only get a…
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Do you remove unwanted packages (*NIX), or do you disable them?
Im currently building a cobbler and puppet setup. One thing I do is disabling unwanted services with puppet, but then I thought: Should I remove them with cobbler, rather than disabling them after they are intalled?
For example, my base class in…
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Make Yum recognize that httpd24-httpd (from SCL) provides the webserver virtual package
I've recently discovered software collections and understand how they allow me to install multiple versions of software by introducing a namespace for each collection. On Enterprise Linux, this is neat because I'll be able to keep the the regular…
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What do you use for automated testing of Debian package installations and updates?
I am using a Debian repo (based on reprepro) for Wheezy and custom packages. I modify my custom packages from time to time and test them manually on different systems, e.g.:
Test a) Installation of the new version of the Debian package
Test b)…
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Centos: yum install libevent-devel conflict with compat-libevent
I want to install Logstash and others, but when I try:
# yum install libevent-devel
I get the errors below:
Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/bin/event_rpcgen.py from install of libevent-devel-2.0.12-1.rhel6.i686 conflicts with file from…
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Can I use wildcards is puppet package ensure to cover multiple releaseversion
Using puppet I want to update packages on my (CentOS 5 & 6 servers) in a controlled way. Therefore I don't want to use ensure=>latest but rather ensure=>3.0.1-1.
Example:
class puppet::installation inherits puppet {
package { "puppet":
…
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Best practice to track custom software installations on Linux in /usr?
I'm compiling and installing software myself on Linux (Debian Squeeze in my case). Downloading, unpacking, installing dependent developer libraries/headers, running configure then make.
Up to this point everything remains still in the source…
mark
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Get a list of the licences of all packages on Ubuntu system
I want to check what licenses all the packages on my system is running under.
It seems like this information is located in /usr/share/doc/package/copyright
However this file seems like it does not have any standard format, I've been going through…
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