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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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Diff for a locally modified package in Ubuntu

If I modify the source code of some package that I've installed with apt-get in Ubuntu, is there some package tool that will let me see the diff between what was the original installation and my modifications?
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Use Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) packages on Debian 5.0 (Lenny) instalation

Currently I have installed Debian Lenny on virtualized server provided by my local ISP. I can't upgrade it, can configure it however I want, to Squeeze but I need newest package versions provided by Squeeze repository. If I update…
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Installing `diction` on CentOS 4

I have a need for diction to be installed on my server, which is running CentOS 4. I can find it no problems for Fedora and Ubuntu (apt-get 'just worked'), but am having no luck under CentOS. Which Fedora package would I need, or is there a solid…
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Automatic storing package before installing it on .deb based system?

The reason I am asking this question is I am concerned about simple rollback (I already read how to find out what packages were installed). So I would like to set global (per entire system) option, that forces system to store each package before…
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How to survey the packages various Linux distributions install by default (without downloading each distro)?

I'm trying to determine the level of support enjoyed by various software packages across all major Linux distributions. That is, for a given package, find which distros include it in the default installation, and if so, what version they include.…
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Setting up DHCP in OpenSolaris

I have searched but am unable to find the specific packages that are needed to set up DHCP in OpenSolaris (I am using 2008.11). Are they included in the default installation? Or, we have to use pkg install?
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Install from SVN to Ubuntu

I'm still a bit of a freshie on Ubuntu and linux in general, so please bear with me. I found this package that I would like to implement on my Ubuntu SSH managed server: http://repcached.lab.klab.org/ Is that possible in any way, or does it requres…
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Is there a way to create a custom installer package to do batch installs of a bunch of programs at once?

Basically I want to create a file which will automatically install a bunch of files without having to manually install each of them (i.e. Flash, Adobe Reader, MS Office, etc.). I'm guessing the easiest way to do this would be to create a batch file…
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How to safety delete a package/software which wasn't installed via package manager

I have an old Ubuntu Linux 20 install. I recently found that I have a bunch of software that I installed before I started fully using package management and I can't remember the details of the installations. I tried via apt but it says that those…
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Ubuntu package libzstd1 still old version

After upgrade from Ubuntu 20.10 to 21.04 i have a package problem. When i try to install the package default-libmysqlclient-dev: apt install default-libmysqlclient-dev it fails with: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libzstd-dev :…
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What package do I need to isntall on CentOS 5 to get system-config-network X11 GUI?

The title says it all really. What package do I need to get via yum on CentOS 5 to be able to run the X11 version of system-config-network? ATM I only have the tui version which is horrific. Thanks, Bart.
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GCP Suse Enterprise LInux 15, no default package repository

I created a suse linux enterprise 15 vm in GCP. When I try to install anything it gives the following error. I searched a lot but couldn't find default package repo for suse. test-suse:/etc/zypp/repos.d # zypper refresh --services There are no…
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Can't install rgdal R package on computing cluster - Linux

I am trying to install the R rgdal package on the HPC at my university. I input the usual command used for any other packages, which were correctly installed, but not for "rgdal". install.packages("rgdal") The output error message is the…
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using yum list package, show only the package name without x86_64 and version number without 4.el7

please help me, i want using yum list package, show only the package name without x86_64 and version number without 4.el7. I don't want to use rpm -qa --qf , because yum more accurate. yum list installed The output: ModemManager.x86_64 …
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Nexus mirror (with maven) does not work

Im using Nexus as mirror for maven central and want to add other repositories. If I add this like this papermc …
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