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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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Resolve a dependacy fail with libc-bin on debian

I had a very old server on etch and i tried to upgrade it to jessie. everything was good until wheezy when i made dist-upgrade, it try to upgrade libc6 WARNING: this version of the GNU libc requires kernel version 2.6.26 or later. Please upgrade…
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Prevent from installing open-vm-tools-desktop / @platform-vmware on EL 7

When installing RHEL 7/CentOS 7 as a VMware ESX guest, the installer (Anaconda) automatically detects the virtualization host, then install the appropriate tools (open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop, also known as the VMware Tools). [for those…
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Linux: is it safe to install packages from a prior release?

I've just built a 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10 workstation. Love it. Turns out an app I want is 32-bit only. I found a handy tutorial on installing and using 32-bit libraries in the 64-bit environment. It nearly worked but I couldn't find one specific…
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Yum error CentOS 6.7, can't get connected to the package http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release_rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.i686.rpm

I tried yum clean all and yum update and then I try yum erase apf and yum erase doesn't work because it can't get connected to the package mentioned in a title. I am connected to the internet and everything seems to work normally without yum. I have…
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How to view changelog of a deb package not yet installed

I got prompted to update libxml2 on my Debian Jessie Server however prior doing so i want to know what has changed on the latest version. I have tried visiting Debian`s repo website for the relevant package but i found no info nor a changelog. How…
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Create custom package from nginx source - renaming nginx to custom-nginx

My dist is Ubuntu 14.04 use case I am attempting to create my own packaged nginx called 'custom-nginx'. It needs to install itself into alternative directories as so it does not interfere with the normal operation of nginx. 'custom-nginx' will…
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Yum dependency problems with packages installed from source

I'm running CentOS 5.3 and this is my problem: - I installed (A) from source. (B) depends on (A) - I want to install the (B) RPM, but the (B) RPM depends on the (A) RPM. So yum wants me to install the (A) RPM even though (A) is already installed.…
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Prevent debian package from being removed by puppet

is there a way to prevent a debian package from being removed? I want to prevent any resolution of "replaces" and "breaks" attributes that would lead to removing that package while being able to upgrade it. Everything is fine as long as that package…
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Compiling in linux to specific directory and then package the software

I need to compile a software from the sources. ./config && make && make install On that, it does install a bunch of stuff everywhere(Libraries, etc) But the thing is, that I also need to copy that software after to another set of machines that I…
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Error installing Python packages on an AWS Ubuntu server

I am trying to install the Ansible control server on Ubuntu 14.x (an AWS instance). When trying to install the dependencies, I saw an error. I'm not sure what I need to do. Is this an ignorable error? Here is what I entered: pip install paramiko…
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Is it possible to force a linux install to continue?

I'm PXE booting a linux distro that I'd like to contain a list of packages. I have these packages listed in a kickstart file for inclusion. Some of these packages won't work with the current distro, and during installation I get "cannot open .rpm".…
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YUM installs outdated software

I recently acquired a red hat server that runs RHEL 5.5. I get a feeling that my YUM repositories are totally out of date because of the following reasons: I tried updating GCC using YUM. The updated version shows 4.1.2-54 as the version number,…
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Trigger actions automatically when package is installed or user is added

When installing mysql-server on Debian Wheezy, the user "mysql" is created without a home directory. In my setup, directly after MySQL was installed, a new task is performed which relies on the mysql user having /var/lib/mysql as home directory. At…
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Execute script after removepkg in Slackware

I've created a slackware build script so I could build a specific package and then install it on a couple of servers running identical versions. I'm aware you could use doinst.sh to do things after the package was installed, but is there a similar…
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How to set up a local repository for ubuntu and add packages of your own

I want to make two things: First of all, I want to have my own repository of ubuntu in my servers to not overload the usage of Internet in my company and to control the updates. I think that I have to use apt-mirror And also I want to add my own…
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