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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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Python command to create no-arch rpm's

I am creating rpm's for my project which is in pure python. I am running the command python setup.py bdist_rpm to build the rpm. This is creating architechture specific rpm's (x86 or x86-64). What I would like is to have a no-arch rpm. Can any of…
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where to find applicationContext.xml after install it

I installed the project using rpm, then found out there was a typo in the application.xml file. then i searched the application.xml but could not it? its not in /etc/tmo/myservice/ or /usr/tmo/myservice/ where can I find it? Thanks.
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Installation of net-snmp - How do I resolve the dependencies?

I'm trying to install net-snmp on Redhat 2.6.9-55.ELsmp by following the instructions. The problem is I get this: grep: /usr/lib/libbeecrypt.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libbeecrypt.la: No such file or…
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Upgrade Apache from source if the original was installed from an rpm?

Possible Duplicate: Upgrade Apache from source if the original was installed from an rpm? Recently I've inherited a set of machines running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4. They have been provisioned with Apache Server v2.2.3 installed from rpms. I…
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Install several versions of the rpm packet

I need to use python2.5. But my system (FC11) have python 2.6 only. How can I install and use several versions of python with yum or rpm? Or maybe I need to compile python 2.6 from sources?
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RHEL6 SRPMs Are Not Found by "yumdownloader"

I am trying to download SRPMs from redhat from what of their servers. I went through step one of initializing the repository... # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel-source.repo [rhel-source] name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch -…
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Can rpm upgrades and rpm erases be mixed in the same command (transaction)

I would like to upgrade package A and at the same time erase package B. There are dependencies between the packages so I would like to do both operations as one transaction. This can be done with 2 commands: rpm --erase packageB.rpm rpm -Uvh…
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Is there a reliable RPM source for Redhat for Ruby 1.8.7?

I have looked but I am unable to locate a good RPM source for the latest 1.8.X release of Ruby. Is there one out there? This is going on a server to run some admin scripts and not to host Ruby based websites so it is not mission critical, but the…
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RPM + SPEC file - header source

I have the following spec file (below), I want to add to the Source - /root/calculate.sh How do I add second source ? For example Source: /root/test.sh /root/calculate.sh ( is illegal) The SPEC file Summary: An example tool. To show a simple rpm…
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CentOS 5.5 Package documentation

Usually when I install a common package like PostgreSQL or MySQL or Python etc using Yum it installs the files held within those packages into locations specific to CentOS itself. It may also install scripts specific to CentOS only. These paths may…
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Building php-devel package from source (php 5.3)

I am building PHP 5.3 rpm packages for our custom CentOS 5 yum repo. I am fairly new to building rpms to be honest, but I have had moderate success downloading the SRPMS for a given package and repackaging them using "rpmbuild --rebuild"…
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Removing packages from a CentOS installation

I've installed CentOS, along with some applications such as Apache and PHP. How do I remove the currently installed versions so that I can install the correct versions using yum?
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Can not upgrade to python-2.4.3-43 on Red Hat Linux 5

I'm trying to upgrade using package python-2.4.3-43.el5.x86_64.rpm, but everything I do so I get a failed dependency requirement for libpython2.4.so.1.0, but I've checked /usr/lib64 and the file is there. The current version of python that is…
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RPM ERRORs on a cloud CentOS 5.5 server

I am attempting to add an rpm repo in order to Yum install a Munin node, however i keep getting the following error: rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm Retrieving…
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How do I make an RPM from a list of files?

I have ganglia already installed in /opt/ganglia-3.1.7 and I would like to collect the files in an RPM to be installed on other systems. Does anyone have a template .spec file for something simple like this?
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