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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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rpm -Uvh authenticated proxy access ... just hangs?

I'm not sure how to set up authenticated proxy access with rpm. But I have it set up with wget and yum. When I run rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/etc... It just says 'Retrieving http://...' and I have no idea what's going on. Any help?
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Linux - Is there a way to fake the highest directory?

/ is the highest directory in Linux. Is there a way to fake that to something else say /opt/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT? Here's my problem space. I am trying to re-package a COTS into RPM format. The COTS came in a form of binary and I need to install…
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CentOS 5: How to resolve php53 RPM dependency conflict with php-foo and php-common?

We are running a CentOS 5.6 system, and want to install php53 with php-mcrypt. However, this introduces a dependency conflict between php-common & php53-common. Does anyone have a good workaround for this problem? host # yum install…
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Where did yum put boost?

I installed boost.x86_64 on my Linux system: $ sudo yum install boost.x86_64 Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Adding en_US to language list Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * fedora: mirror.uoregon.edu …
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What have been the most useful resources for you when learning to make RPM's?

I'm in the position of needing to make a few RPMs at work, which is something fairly new to me. I'd really love to hear which docs, tutorials. or presos have been useful for you for understanding: a) how to make them well without making noobish…
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Transactions and Rollback with Debian

I don't know if it is common knowledge, but RPM has support for rollbacking to a previous installation after performing an upgrade (which breaks something for instance). You can pass rpm the --repackage flag to generate a bunch of RPMs of files…
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CentOS: Did the RPM create a user?

I'm using CentOS 5.5. I installed the mysql-server RPM from CentOS.org. I believe this RPM was supposed to create a user called 'mysql'. However, this user doesn't exist. How can I view the contents of an RPM to see if it attempts to create a user…
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OpenSSL 0.9.8k or higher on CentOS 5?

I need to upgrade OpenSSL on my CentOS server to 0.9.8k or higher, however the latest version in the official CentOS repositories is 0.9.8e, much too old. Is there a 3rd party repository I can use that has newer versions of OpenSSL libraries? If…
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primary.sqlite.bz2 not found on private repo

I've been setting up a private repo for the company I'm working. At the beginning it was working properly, but today, when I'll try to install a new rpm that I've build I had this ugly error…
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Why are some RPM's "not relocatable"?

An RPM is relocatable if you can install it like this: rpm -ivh --prefix=/path/to/non/default/dir package-name.rpm Without getting the following error message: error: package package-name is not relocatable This link states: RPM has the ability…
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Linux's /etc/init.d - symlink, hard link, or actual file?

I have a Debian and an RPM package that requires a start/stop script to be added to the /etc/init.d directory. Recently, I was informed by a remote developer that "those in the know" know that "best practice" is to actually install the start up in…
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CentOS 6.6 (Final) - yum kernel upgrade troubles

Well-being everybody, I'm a SysAdmin Junior managing 3 CentOS Virtual (Web)Servers, this morning I'm facing some troubles with package manager yum. As usual operation, this morning I've run the command yum update && yum upgrade, on one of the 3…
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What are the consequences of installing some el6 packages on Centos 7?

I'm responsible for administration of a Centos 7 box at my contract job. I'm really more of a developer and not much of a Linux admin, so please bear with me and maybe try to explain this to me like I'm 5. One of the apps we're working on needed…
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yum list available - not showing all packages

I have a strange problem with yum, working on one server and not working on another server that should be identical. The symptom is that after running createrepo on a directory containing RPMs (and creating a definition called "foo" in…
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Why are some CentOS 5 boxes still vulnerable to ShellShock after upgrading Bash?

I have two CentOS 5.10 boxen where I have upgraded bash to the latest version. However, in one of the boxes, bash is still vulnerable to CVE-2014-7169 (I am using the test from this ServerFault answer). Any ideas on why one machine is OK and the…
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