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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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question about a sata read/write speed

I'm contemplating biting the bullet for an ssd drive in a server, obviously I know it will be MUCH faster than a regular 7200rpm sata2 3gbps drive. The nice thing about ssd's is often they post the read/write speed but that info isn't available for…
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Why I can't find mod_dav_svn 1.6 in rpmforge?

This is what I'm doing: # yum --enablerepo=rpmforge list mod_dav_svn Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * addons: mirrors.adams.net * base: mirror.sanctuaryhost.com * extras: mirror.sanctuaryhost.com *…
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yum error when installing memcached

trying to install memcached with "yum install memcached" and i'm getting all these errors which I have no idea how to solve. Setting up Install Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package memcached.x86_64…
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`yum upgrade git` centos

I want to upgrade git cause the version on centos5 is 1.5.5.6. yum upgrade git says, "No Packages marked for Update." Am I using the wrong rpm? How do I use a different rpm? Which should I use?
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Does BuildRoot influence the RPM installation?

I'm trying to figure out how $RPM_BUILD_ROOT relates to BuildRoot. It's clear that BuildRoot is the temporary path used during RPM construction. But here for example, they say buildroot is used during actual…
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Problems removing squid fro Linux 2.6

i want to remove squid package from my Linux box kernel 2.6 root@t:~/devel # rpm -i squid-2.6.STABLE18-5.endian6.i586.rpm --nodeps package squid-2.6.STABLE18-5.endian6 is already installed root@t:~/devel # rpm -e…
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SAS, RPM, & Bus Speeds

I am working on spec'ing out a new Hyper-V server, and I am running into something that I find confusing--I have the following choices: 146GB 15k RPM, SAS, 3Gbps, 3.5" 146GB 10k RPM, SAS, 6Gbps, 2.5" Why does the 10k drive come only with the lower…
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RPM installer failing

Odd issue. The RPM installer is installing everything fine but is returning an error code 21. Meaning all of the packages are failing to install. Does anyone have any ideas why? Thanks
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Subversion on RHEL/CentOS 4

Does anyone know of recent subversion RPMs for RHEL 4 ? While RHEL 4 is old - we still have some servers we'd like to upgrade to the latest subversion release - but prepackaged RPMS seems hard to come by, and the newest source is non-trivial to get…
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Installing newer version of installed RPM from source (CentOS)

I've got sqlite 3.3.6 installed through ''yum'', but I need 3.6+. There's no RPM to be found for it, so I decided to install from source. That was simple enough, but now I have both versions installed, which is problematic. I'd like to get rid of…
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Counting downloads from an RPM repository

My company hosts an open source RPM repository and would like to start counting RPM downloads per day. The repository is hosted on Apache httpd. Can anyone recommend a good way to count the downloads of just the RPM files (which will have URLs of…
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RPM Generation X86_64

I am generating RPM for the fisrt time. I have created folder structure mkdir -p tmp/rpm/{BUILD,BUILDROOT,RPMS/x86_64,SOURCES,SRPMS,SPECS} . But when I generated my RPM, it generates my RPM with i586 extension. How to tell RPM to generate x86_64…
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installing wxGTK-devel on CentOS 5.4

I'm trying to install wxGTK-devel on CentOS and since it's not in the base repo I added RPMForge. But now I'm getting these broken dependencies. I don't want start tampering with separate rpms because I suspect it will make thing worse. I remember…
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rpm build from src file

I'm trying to build from a *.src.rpm file on FC 12 in such a way that the files are distributed a across my system as they would with a normal binary build (in this case, *.h files end up in /usr/include). When I ran rpmbuild, the headers weren't…
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How do I flag an rpm package that was installed as a dependency to not be removed if the parent package is removed?

Some background so this is easier to understand: I have cloud-init installed which installs libselinux-python as a dependency. I want to uninstall/remove cloud-init without having libselinux-python uninstalled as I need this package for other…
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