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How to upgrade a tbz package that I create in Freebsd?
I am newbie at freebsd packaging and I want to learn way of upgrade a package. I created a package on my development server and I installed it to test server by
pkg_add foo-1.0.tbz
then I changed ...
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Fedora 16 to Fedora 17 post-upgrade tasks
I have just successfully upgraded from Fedora 16 to Fedora 17 using the Preupgrade tool. One of the post-upgrade steps suggested here is to "remove unsupported packages".
The guide says to run ...
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How does the linux update manager work?
I want to know how the update manager for linux works. For instance, how does my linux distro check to see if there are any available updates for download and which servers to download these updates? ...
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Why do most distros (other than Debian) recommend/require a full reinstall when upgrading to a new version?
Having spent most of my Linux life using Debian, I'm been having a look at other distros and am really surprised at extent to which they don't provide a smooth upgrade between versions. Debian is ...
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Using the apt package manager refuse an update for a specific package
I am attempting to upgrade a few packages using the apt package manager. However there is a specific package in the list that I don't want to upgrade. In fact I don't want anyone to ever upgrade it. ...
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How to keep track of installed software
Every now and then I'm in need of updating a software running on one of our testservers at work (mostly Debian). What really confuses me almost every time is the fact that there is not just one way to ...
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How do I upgrade to the newest Firefox via YaST in OpenSuSE 11.x?
I'm running OpenSuSE 11.2 and I would like to upgrade to the newest version of Firefox (v 8 I believe at the time of this question). I'm not interested in extracting a tarball, I would like to do it ...
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“Digest verification failed” when updating system
When I run sudo zypper update:
Overall download size: 134.1 MiB. After the operation, additional 5.7 MiB will be used.
Continue? [y/n/?] (y): y
Automatically agreeing with java-1_6_0-sun-devel ...
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Error updating all ArchLinux packages with -Syu
I am on Arch Linux with Kde.
I haven't updated the packages in a while and I'm having a problem while trying to do so:
The first thing I tried was: sudo pacman -Syu as the documentation says, and I ...
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Package managers Update versus Upgrade?
sudo zypper update
The following package updates will NOT be installed:
amarok bluedevil choqok cln digikam digikam-lang GeoIP gstreamer-0_10 gstreamer-0_10-plugin-gnomevfs ...
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How to sort updates based on release date on debian testing?
I'm a user of linux mint debian linux distro which is based on debian testing. Debian testing is a rolling release distro. The testing nature of this distro cause some package updates to be buggy. I'm ...
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FreeBSD: Getting pkg_add to use stable packages rather than release packages?
Using FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE. I want to use the latest binary packages rather than the packages at the time of the 8.2 release. That is, I want to use packages in ...
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How to update Puppy Linux?
A month or two ago, I installed the latest version of Puppy Linux to an old Eee PC which I hardly use any more. Well I'm on it now! But I can't figure out how to update it.
It uses a weird Puppy ...
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How should I deal with Fedora's short life cycle?
I have been using Fedora as my primary distribution since very long. One thing that "bothers" me is its relatively short life cycle. I install its latest release, restore my backup, customize the ...
