A package is a specific piece of software which can be installed and uninstalled on a system.
Questions tagged [packages]
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How to install a newer version of php on AWS Opsworks?
Our code base is using PHP 5.5 and we are wanting to deploy on AWS Opsworks however when selecting the PHP App Server layer we are told it has PHP 5.3.
What I was hoping is that I could just use the default PHP App Server layer and then specify…

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Getting the URL to a debian .deb package
I'm trying to setup an IronWorker with PHP, and need to add the Imagick PECL extension or debian package's URL to the IronWorker .worker configuration.
I've located the package for Ubuntu 12.04 on the above mentioned link, but I'm not sure how to…

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How to create packages in SaltStack
I have installed Salt-master in my ubuntu 12.04 machine and salt minion in ubuntu 12.04. I want to install package containing like svn,mongodb,postgres,maven,python in the salt-minion. how to create package to install all these in salt…

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Check all debian binaries against the checksum of the original
I would like to check all binaries on my server against
dpkg -e
(for example rkhunter could do this check against the originals when doing probupdate)
How could I check all packages with one script?

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Install a specific package version in CentOS
I have two web servers, a production web server and a backup web server.
After running a rpm -qa on the two servers, I noticed some package discrepancies.
It seems like, someone ran a yum update at some point in the past on the production server,…

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Debian: can not install php5-suhosin and php5-apc
Just ordered a new Debian server and for some reason can not install
php5-suhosin and php5-apc. Any ideas?
apt-get install php5-suhosin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package php5-suhosin is…

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Will passing an array as a value in puppet install my package?
I'm working through the puppet documentation. One of the exercises is to use some conditional logic to write a general install manifest:
Exercise: Use the $operatingsystem fact to write a manifest that
installs a build environment on Debian-based…

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yum update if installed, otherwise install
Is there a command to do just that:
if a package is already installed, update it, otherwise install the latest version
For now I'm doing two commands:
yum install mypackage
yum update mypackage
Maybe there's a more efficient way?

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Puppet package installation on Linux/CentOS
I am new to Puppet - I have been playing around learning the basics. Most of the examples ( except the very basic ones ) that are on the puppet page do not work for me - either some dependency is missing or package is not found. I do not see the…

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How to install packages on debian lenny 5.0
I'm working with Debian Lenny 5.0 and I'm trying to replicate an environment. The problem is that when I try to update aptitude.. it looks like the servers aren't online anymore.
Is there any way for me to install some libraries by aptitude…

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My yum repository able to search packages, but not able to install it in RHEL?
I set up yum from dvd. Following is the containts of my .repo file:
[dvd]
name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation DVD
baseurl=file:///media/dvd
enabled=0.
I'm able to search packages. However while installation I'm getting below…

Mandar Pande
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How can I get APT to "ignore" a package?
I am running a VPS using Debian unstable with this kernel version:
2.6.32-274.7.1.el5.028stab095.1
I just upgraded my packages and for some odd reason APT wants me to install linux-image-3.2.0-3-amd64, which is strange, seeing as I can't modify the…

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debian- file to package mapping
I recently installed java6 on my debian box. I went to use javac and noticed it wasn't installed. Eventually I figured out (after searching online) that javac is part of the java6-sdk package. This isn't the first time where I've know the…

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RHEL package containing JCE (Java) Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files to support higher level encryption?
Are there packages for RHEL and distros based on it (CentOS, Scientific Linux, etc.) that contain the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files so that higher levels of encryption can be supported in Java? I know…

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Ubuntu Packages (PHP)
Currently, the available option for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is php 5.3.2. I'm wondering how long it usually takes for their repos to update to either php 5.3.3, or even the latest php 5.3.4.
All though I'm interested in PHP more specifically at the…

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