Questions tagged [packages]

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

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Debian/Ubuntu: Enabling "dist-upgrade" behavior for unattended-upgrades?

We've got a customized distribution of Ubuntu, a repository with some custom packages and we run unattended-upgrades on a number of systems. What we want to be able to do is supply an update of one of our packages which might have a new dependency…
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How to get a complete file list for all packages?

I tried using apt-file list --regexp ".*", but it's not working, probably because the returned content is too extensive.
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Trying to Install HP-HEALTH for Proliant DL585N G5 on Debian Bullseye

I'm building a small personal server room with some older servers and exploring running new tools like proxmox. One such machine is an HP ProLiant DL585 G5, Quad Opteron with 40GB DDR2 that I would like to create a virtualization server with…
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In which solaris sparc package does crtbegin and crtend belongs to?

I need to add those two to my paths. Thus, my plan is to check first if they're already in my machine, and if they are, I'll add them to my path. Otherwise, I'll install them first then add them to my path. Thanks
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Yum install problems

I'm trying to install rkhunter via yum on CentOS 4.8, but it's just not happening... Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories update 100% |=========================| 951 B …
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Redhat 7.4 fresh VM add repository for slapd, ldap-utils package

I am trying to redo steps from: https://youtu.be/6ls6kRvGkrU?t=100 But there is Ubuntu, and i am wondering can i get the same packages on redhat 7.4? Currently they are missing: [k@localhost ~]$ sudo yum install slapd Loaded plugins: langpacks,…
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"apt install" didn't work but "dpkg -i" did

I tried to port qemu-related packages ("qemu-system-data,"...etc.) from the Ubuntu disco to xenial. I downloaded the qemu-system-data package, extracted it, modified control file and then re-build it through dpkg-deb --build. When I tested it,…
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How to suppress Uninstall-Package prompting to install nuget

I am writing a script to go through our fleet of Windows machines, search for a couple of applications, and uninstall them if found. To achieve this, I am using two commands Get-Package Uninstall-Package The way in which I am doing this remotely,…
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Faster way of deploying compiled software

I'm working on a project where I will have to deploy a large number of servers with particular software upon them. At the moment, I'm able to use the standard Ubuntu repositories, however the version of the software that is on these repos (v1.0) is…
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Spacewalk Clients Not Running Yum Updates

The clients registered with my spacewalk server report needing updates but when I schedule a event to update the packages on the clients they never perform the update. The little clock icon appears on the clients and there is a pending event but…
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Monthly Patch Releases for Linux CentOS/RedHat

Can somebody tell me when CentOS/RedHat release package updates monthly? Micrososft has patch Tuesday but I can't seem to find a day/week when CentOS/RedHat release monthly patches. I'd like to schedule my environment patching around this if such a…
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Linker error in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3

Our machine was in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 until when we recently moved to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3. Our C++ tools were compiling without any problem on SuSe 11. But when we compile the tools in SuSe 12, we are having below…
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How to use Ansible's homebrew module to assert a list of packages are installed

I'm a relatively new user of Ansible. I use it to orchestrate a few groups of Linux servers. I'm now expanding that use to use Ansible's homebrew module. Using the homebrew module, I want to assert that a list of packages are installed on my macOS…
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Upgrade NuGet Powershell Cmdlets

I'm attempting to use NuGet powershell cmdlets mentioned here. I'm having a problem with the fact that I use VS2015 and my machines NuGet package source is pointing to "https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json", but the powershell cmdlets only work when…
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Good Source Site for AIX Public Domain Ports

My UNIX experience was missing AIX. So now I have a problem as I have a mixture of just about all types of UNIX/Linux. So I need a little help for my AIX situation. I'm trying to put the public domain programs on our AIX systems that our users…
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