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RPM Package Manager is a package management system used primarily for GNU/Linux operating systems. It used the .rpm file format.

RPM Package Manager is a package management system. "RPM" refers to the .rpm file format, files in this format, software packaged in such files, and the package manager itself. RPM was intended primarily for GNU/Linux distributions. The file format is the baseline package format of the Linux Standard Base.

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Logstash from RPM fails to run under nice command

I downloaded the Logstash RPM logtsash-1.4.2-1_2c0f5a1.noarch from the official site, but have been having problems getting it to run from the init script. I get no log data passed to Elasticsearch/Kibana unless I change the nice value (LS_NICE…
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How do I find out what RPMs make up a "yum group install"?

I am trying to install the Gnome Desktop Environment on a RHEL 5 system. I am NOT connected to the internet and do NOT have any local repo or the install disks. Under normal circumstances, where a repo is available, I understand the easiest way to…
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yum update rpm packages installed manually

I needed to install the libxml 2.7 package and for this i uninstalled yum (yum have dependencies on libxml), is there any way I can make the pass to work with yum rpm packages installed previously? I want him to do update of the packages installed…
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Yum problems with easy apache - The server’s system package manager, ‘YUM’, failed.?

I keep getting the following error on easy appache !! The server’s system package manager, ‘YUM’, failed. ! !! This is the command that failed: yum -y install gettext automake19 libstdc++.x86_64 libpng-devel readline-devel openssl libpng-dev…
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In an RPM spec file, when a file isn't found, how to find out which %files line is at fault?

I'm working with a very macro-heavy RPM spec file, and when building it's producing an error I can't seem to track down: File not found: /var/tmp/pkgnamehere/mockbuild/usr/com/pgsql (I've replaced the full package buildroot path with "pkgnamehere"…
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Spacewalk (satellite) activation refresh child channels on client

We have a (spacewalk) rhn satellite server running and several hundred machines registered with it with a few activation keys. Each of these keys have one or more child channels. We need to know how to 'refresh' the registration so that the clients…
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Ways to deliver server solution set to customers

I'm looking for ways to deliver our server solution set to customer. So that customer can easily install and experience our solution. Our server solution set includes tomcat+webapp, memcached, db solution and so on. What is a preferred way to…
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Upgrading PHP 5.2 to PHP 5.3 on EC2

I am a HUGE novice with this, and I have spend a whole day and a night trying to fix this. I know this has been asked before, but I have tried everything in those answers as well as from all over the Internet, nothing works :-( So I thought I will…
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Building 64 bit rpm on 32 bit rpmbuild system

Are there any way for building x86_64 arch target rpm on a 32 bit rpmbuild build system? $ rpmbuild -ba --target=x86_64 kernel64.spec Building target platforms: x86_64 Building for target x86_64 error: No compatible architectures found for build I…
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dovecot rhel 5 installation fails because of newer libraries

to whom it may respond to, we are trying to install dovecot (dovecot-2.2.10-1_14.el5.x86_64) on a RHEL 5.4 server and we get the error : [root@asgfkm /]# rpm -i dovecot-2.1.17-0_136.el5.x86_64.rpm uyarý: dovecot-2.1.17-0_136.el5.x86_64.rpm: Header…
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RHEL 5 createrepo hangs

I've got a RHEL 5 server that I want to create a mirror repo on. I've specified a new file system mounted at /repos. I have run reposync -p /repos --repoid=rhel-x86_64-server-5 -l which completed OK. I've then run createrepo -c…
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rpmbuild not taking $LD_LIBRARY_CONFIG

I'm trying to build Agent++ into an RPM that installs into an alternative location. It's complaining that it can't find libsnmp++. I have libsnmp++ installed, also in an alternative location. $LD_LIBRARY_PATH lists the correct path for libsnmp++. In…
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yum whatprovides does not return anything

I am trying to figure out what RPM provided /usr/bin/java. However, I think this may have been installed outside of yum. Is it possible for yum to tell me what provided /usr/bin/java if it wasn't installed via yum? It could have been installed using…
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Linux package management and security flaws

Is there a mechanism built into rpm or apt that will warn (or prevent) a user from installing a package contains a known security threat? I'm thinking of an RPM like openssl-1.0.1e-15.el6.x86_64.rpm. Seems odd that it can float out there forever…
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Using `repomirror` to mirror a yum repository for a different OS version?

I have an EL5 machine. On this host I would like to mirror a Puppet repository for EL6 rpms. How can I mirror an EL6 or Fedora repository on an EL5 host? I am using reposync because I only need the newest packages available on the repo, not the…
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