A package is a specific piece of software which can be installed and uninstalled on a system.
Questions tagged [packages]
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Download cygwin packages from a predefined list (on Windows 7)
I have a very long list of cygwin packages that I need to download (for various reasons I cannot install directly from the internet, instead I need to download the cygwin packages for later installation). Is there any way of doing this by providing…

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No package php-devel available CentOS
I try to install php-devel package on my CentOS VPS and I get this output :
No package php-devel available.
I run this command :
yum -y install php-devel
Output :
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
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Rename a rebuild nginx package
I'm trying to recompile nginx with some extra modules and packetize it again. I want to change the package name to avoid package upgrades that could break the server. So far I downloaded the source with apt-get source nginx, changed the rules…

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Fedora update fails for "filesystem" package
I have Fedora 19 currently installed and the filesystem package has shown up in the updates. I find it a little peculiar on how to actually update the filesystem package.
Running transaction Updating : filesystem-3.2-13.fc19.x86_64 1/2
Error…

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Upgrade a package
I have an Ubuntu 8.04 server and I wanted to install rdiff-backup
I have done:
apt-get install rdiff-backup
But when I launched it return me a lot of error.
i have seen in internet that the problem is the old version of rdiff-backup
I have check…

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Is ffmpeg incorrectly interpreting .aif files?
Being on an Ubuntu 10.04 server i installed the ffmpeg packages with apt. ffmpeg is working afterwards, and doing as it should. Almost.
For testing purposes i uploaded a few audiofiles. One of them, an aif file, is not being correctly interpreted.…

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Ubuntu 12.04 - apt-get install ia32-libs unmet dependencies
Trying to install ia32-libs. I run sudo apt-get install ia32-libs. The output is as follows:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you…

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CentOS 6.3. libpam.so 32bit not found
I try to install DB2 fixpack 6 into CentOS 6.3 x64. I have already installed DB2 9.7. When I begin to install fixpack (running installFixPack) I get an error:
"The 32-bit library file libpam.so is not found on the system"
. But I already…

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How to install php-devel under CentOS 6.3 x64?
I'm trying to install php-devel on my CentOS 6.3 VPS and get a failed dependencies test.
From phpinfos():
SYSTEM Linux 2.6.32-279.5.2.el6.x86_64 #1 x86_64 NTS
error: Failed dependencies:
php(x86-64) = 5.4.6-1.el6.remi is needed by
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Are packages override each other?
I need to install libstdc++.so.5 and libstdc++.so.6 packages. If I install 6 version of package (assuming I have already installed 5 version) it will override 5 version? Or these packages can exist together?

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CentOS 6 Kickstart Minimal Install: for JVM, MySQL, and Apache VMs
Trying to put together a kickstart as per this file for "true" minimal installations of CentOS 6 to run on an ESXi (v4.1u2) virtualization server (lives behind a Cisco ASA)
Ideally the OS footprint will be fairly small since I plan on running…

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libreadline6-dev broken package error
OS: Debian Squeeze x64 running on XenServer
Have been googling the error with no luck (or I just fail at googling); any help on resolving this? Any would be greatly appreciated!
-Also posted on WebHostingTalk with no luck yet…

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install whitelist of packages using unstable in debian
i want to just some packages installation from unstable version of debian.
apt-get -t unstable install myspecialpackage
but when i
apt-get upgrade
it will wanting to download some packages from unstable.
also i added this line…

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How to safely and smoothly update packages on server?(by apt)
On my own computer, I have been used to run apt-get upgrade directly for years.
But few days ago I have a chance to admin a ubuntu server. I guess my old habit is bad.
Should/how I update security updates only to minimize dependence issus?
And how…

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Edit SQL Server SSIS Package
I ran the Export wizard to output some data to Excel, and I saved the package to run agan later. I now want to edit the SQL used to generate the Excel, but it is not clear how I do this.
The package is visible (in Stored Packages > MSDB) in SSIS,…

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