tools for installing and maintaining software packages
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Non-Root Package Managers
From my research, I seem to notice that all package managers insist on being used as a privileged user and must be installed into /.
Typically, what I like to do is create a throwaway account, ...
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How to find out which (not installed) package a file belongs to?
On Debian systems (and derivatives):
$ dpkg --search /bin/ls
coreutils: /bin/ls
That is, the file /bin/ls belongs to the Debian package named coreutils.
But this only works if the package is ...
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Keeping track of programs
When I install a simple program it often uses make && make install and doesn't often even have an uninstall target. If I wish to upgrade a program is it standard protocol to assume it just ...
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Where should I put software I compile myself?
I need to compile some software on my Fedora machine. Where's the best place to put it so not to interfere with the packaged software?
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What is the real difference between “apt-get” and “aptitude”? (How about “wajig”?)
I know that both apt-get and aptitude are command line package management interfaces on Debian derived Linux, with different options, but I'm still somewhat confused. Under the hood, aren't they ...
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How do I upgrade OpenSSL?
According to these instructions:
http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/NameBasedSSLVHostsWithSNI
I need to use OpenSSL 0.9.8k or later (right now it's on 1.0.0c) to use name based virtual hosts in apache. ...
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What is the Fedora equivalent to the Debian/Ubuntu package search pages?
The Debian/Ubuntu package search pages are very useful to look up what version of a program is available in what distribution series, how programs are split along multiple packages etc.
For example I ...
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How to install software on Red Hat?
What's the simplest way to download/install software on Red Hat Linux (from bash command line)?
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How do I install mercurial on openSUSE?
Hi
I need to install mercurial on my opensuse but I couldn't find the rpm so I just download mercurial.rpm and wanted to install it by using:
sudo zypper ...
but it said to need python 2.6 so I ...
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install firefox in ubuntu-server edition
I have ubuntu server edition installed and I want to install firefox inside it , I don't want full ubuntu-desktop package just a minimal setup which would let me run firefox inside ubuntu-server 10.04 ...
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How to automatically install packages?
I want to install packages automatically by running a script
I can write yum install php, but I want it to install another package once installation of the php package is completed.
Is there any ...
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Ubuntu list explicitly installed packages
In Gentoo there is the file /var/lib/portage/world that contains packages that I explicitly installed. By explicit I mean, packages that I choose, not including anything installed by default, or ...
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How to make dpkg faster?
Package (un)installation on a Debian system is horribly slow, partly because it works with a whole bunch of (small) files. Short of getting a faster storage, how do I speed it up? I'm thinking maybe ...
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Why do package names contain version numbers?
While working with Ubuntu and other Debian-based distros, I've noticed that packages in the software repos often contain the major version number.
For example,
Apache: apache2
Tomcat: tomcat7
PHP: ...
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How to see package version without install?
I want to see the version of a package before I install it. How can I do this?
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User-local package management system
I need to deploy, manage and run software as a non-privileged user in SuSE (that is, no root access whatsoever, can't use system's package management, etc).
What are my options?
I'd prefer reusing ...
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How to install exactly the same packages on another computer in openSUSE?
Another computer can be as well virtual machine. I cannot make disk clone because of hardware differences and settings.
I have computer A, installed and running, I also have computer B. I will ...
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The Right Distro for text-based needs
I'm searching for the right Linux Distro. My four current ideas are:
Gentoo
Grml
Arch
Debian
But I'm absoluty open to more alternatives. Now a little bit more about my needs:
I want it to be ...
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What's up with this 'gnome' package?
I have recently grown tired of the way Rhythmbox starts up every time I plug in my MP3 player. I know I could simply disable this, but I've decided to uninstall Rhythmbox instead. It's such a ...
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Make package explicitly installed in pacman
I have a package that's installed on my PC as an dependency to another package.
I would like to have the package explicitly installed, but without actually re-installing it, or downloading any files.
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Fixing broken packages in a Debian testing distribution
I'm playing around with Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) in a VirtualBox instance to try it out and see if it'd be good for a main operating system for me. I'm pretty competent with most system ...
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FreeBSD installed package location
I installed Unrealircd on FreeBSD via the sysinstall utility.
I cannot seem to find the location where it was installed.
How can I find the default location of installed packages?
Edit: I found the ...
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Are packages cryptographically signed in Fedora 14?
I am installing Fedora 14 and I am wondering if
the Fedora packages are cryptographically signed
package signatures are checked by the installer by default
package signatures are checked by yum when ...
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Can one install an armel Ubuntu package on armhf Ubuntu system?
My particular concern is about installing "coq" in Ubuntu 12.04 for Toshiba AC100 (armhf distro), which hasn't been built successfully for armhf, but is available for armel -- ...
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How / where to get sources for kernel-2.6.36-gentoo-r4 in Gentoo Linux distribution?
How can I get (i.e. what command to use) sources for kernel-2.6.36-r4 (uname -a says that it is version 2.6.36-gentoo-r4), or where from I can download it?
I want to compile the userside 'perf' ...
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APTonCD equivalent for Fedora
Is there an equivalent of APTonCD for Fedora? I tried googling and found YUMonCD but wanted to know if there exists some package in the repos.
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Mint 12: I can't open synaptic package manager
I have Mint 12 Lisa DVD edition, 32 bit verion. I have kde and gnome. I can't open the Synaptic package manager. When I click on it, I am asked to enter my password, I do so and click authenticate, ...
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Where is the best location for finding information on /yum?
So I'm trying install php-mcrypt on one server and git-core on another server. It seems like locating packages is where I'm falling short. (just learning server administration)
I'm very ignorant of ...
