tools for installing and maintaining software packages
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Download ALL rpms for a product
I have two CentOS machines, one 6.3 box (A), and another CentOS 6.1. (B)
6.3 box is with internet connection, 6.1 box is without internet connection.
I want to download ALL dependencies of a product ...
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3answers
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Present USE flags upon emerging a package in gentoo
I was wondering if there are any tools to present the compile time options/ flags of a package in Gentoo when emerging. I am referring to something like this
3
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1answer
90 views
Compile mkvtoolnix for router with customized firmware
I am using my router (asus-rt66u with customized firmware (tomato) as a media server. To get the tools I need, I have been using the optware package manager which has has bunch of cross-compiled ...
3
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1answer
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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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1answer
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Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libstdc++6' on Nexenta
My original goal was setup service-network-ssh on Nexenta Illumos. As a result of the command
apt-get install service-network-ssh
I got the following message
Reading package lists...
Building ...
2
votes
1answer
150 views
Missing dependency during rpm install
When I install CodeAnalsyt, i get a failed dependency on libbfd-2.20.51 on Centos 6.3.
Binutils is installed on my system and the failed dependency does exists at
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1answer
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how to install older version of subversion in linux mint
With linux mint, when I install subversion the .svn metadata folders are not compatible with 1.6.18 of Eclipse subversion plugin (subclipse). I assume the plugin can only process 1.6 compliant ...
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1answer
154 views
How to keep upstart installed-always, don't be replaced by sysvinit?
Each time I do apt-get dist-upgrade, the package sysvinit comes back and replaced upstart. Well, I have some scripts written for upstart, and I need to reinstall it every time (typing the annoying ...
1
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1answer
230 views
Install apache2-mod-mono-2.10
I am trying to install mod-mono for apache so that I can run C# asp.net websites from my server. The project I have is a .net 4 project.
When I go into yast and select apache2-mod-mono for install ...
0
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1answer
82 views
how to patch PKGBUILD to lib32
I installed Poco library on my Arch64 system using AUR. Sources were downloaded, compiled and the package succesfully installed. But now I need to patch the PKGBUILD so that I can compile 32-bit ...
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0answers
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Using symbolic links and git to manage build versions
In general I follow the following workflow when I build any program (e.g. emacs, tmux, etc.)
/home/opt/[name of the program]/builds/[version]/
bin
lib
share
For example for a program like tmux I ...
2
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0answers
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How do I delete a partial package in OpenBSD
While upgrading, I tried to add a package that was already there and due to some error, a partial package got created - partial-gnutls.
When I try to delete this partial package, I get these errors:
...
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0answers
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Why I was able to fix a broken package with aptitude but I could not with either apt-get or synaptic?
Yesterday I upgraded my Debian Testing and Audacious stopped to work. Troubleshooting I found that the problem was that it was updated to a recent version but the needed plugins were not. I tried to ...
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0answers
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Make yaourt does not reinstall when already installed
Is there a way to make yaourt does not reinstall when the package (from AUR) already installed
$ yaourt -Q jruby
local/jruby 1.7.3-1
but somehow
$ yaourt --needed --noconfirm -S jruby
keep ...
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0answers
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Why can't I find wireless-tools in Debian repositories?
I have installed the squeeze version of Debian on a computer in offline mode (no internet connection during installation).
After the installation (that was successful) I edited /etc/apt/sources.list ...
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0answers
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Oracle 11g R2 on Redhat 6
I have a Solaris background, and I am new in RHEL, and I want to install Oracle 11g on it.
I downloaded Oracle documentation, that illustrate how to install it for RHEL 6.
The following or later ...
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0answers
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Arch Linux steam installation failed due to signature error
I'm trying to install steam on my Arch and pacman said it can't install and showed
the following error
error: steam: signature from "Daniel Wallace <danielwallace@gtmanfred.com>" is invalid
...
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0answers
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How to install Conary on stage3 Gentoo
I'm fed up with the outdatedness of the Foresight iso (can't install it on my system because of the kernel), and I want to start my own distro. I want to start from a Gentoo stage3, and install ...
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0answers
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Error when trying to install valgrind on Ubuntu 10.04
Having trouble tracking down a solution to the following problem. I am running Ubuntu 10.04.
~$ apt-get install valgrind
Reading package lists... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some ...
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0answers
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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, ...
