A repository refers to a data structure, usually stored remotely on a server, that contains files and directories as well as a corresponding historical record of the changes that were applied to the data structure of the repository.
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Atomic repo to just update Ossec and not the rest is that possible for Centos 6.4?
I followed this link http://www.ossec.net/?page_id=19 and enable both epel and atomic repo to install ossec. My problem is I just want a local installation of ossec so I ran this yum install ...
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Finding yum equivalents of apt repositories?
I have code to setup an Ubuntu server that relies on apt-get. It has lots of packages as documented on our project wiki, for example these: development environment and the ruby dependencies.
However, ...
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Getting error whenever trying to add a repository
Whenever I try to add a repository I get a NoDistroTemplate Exception. I am using Linux Mint 14 Nadia.
tusharmakkar08@tusharmakkar08-Satellite-C660 ~ $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
...
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How do I add a custom package to debian repository?
I run my own debian apt repository server. I have a .deb file that i would like to add into the repository (Adaptec Storage Manager deb). I need the ability to manage that package independent of the ...
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When was the concept of remote repositories invented?
When were remote repositories, for any package manager, invented and implemented?
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What is sources.list?
I know sources.list is a file that contains a list of HTTP links pointing to some software downloads.
I would like to know more detailed explanations and various conventions followed in the ...
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Disable repository updating in fedora
Fedora checks all repository for updating when every time i want to install some packages from yum. this is waste of time because i know they are updated!
how could i disable this checking?
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Is there a GUI tool for editing software repos in CentOS 6.3?
I was wondering in a GUI tool exists in CentOS 6.3 for editing software repositories, similar to the 'Software sources' GUI in Ubuntu.
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make reposync ignore /etc/yum.conf?
Is there a way to make reposync ignore /etc/yum.conf ?
When i use reposync --config=/my/path/to/alternative/inputrepo.conf it's still picking up repositories for consideration inside /etc/yum.repos.d
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Crontab with Github
I want to be able to push a repository to Github at midnight, every night. I know that Github isn't a back-up service, and, in no way am I expecting it to be this - I just want the best up-to-date ...
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What are possible issues with installing a package from the developer instead of the distro-repositories
It might sound like a trivial question to some but even though I have been using Linux for quite a few years I haven't really figured out this question.
Little background info; I recently upgraded my ...
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How to check that gpg checking is correct on RHEL based machines or not?
How can I check that the "enabled=1" repositories have "gpgcheck=1" in the "/etc/yum.repos.d/" directory (and the "gpgkey=" file exist or not?)?
Q: I'm searching for a solution to do this ...
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CentOS: disable a non-reachable repository
How to disable a non-reachable repository?
I have an error when I use yum repolist or yum list:
# yum list | grep 404
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home%3A/SannisDev/
CentOS_CentOS- ...
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What does White space mean when you mount ISO
I mounted redhat dvd media and I named in redhat.iso. And when i mounted it and did
ls
it showed /media/RHEL-5.6 i386 DVD. What does this space mean between 5.6 and i386 and DVD.
Because Im ...
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Adding repositories with “./” [closed]
I'm trying to add this unoficcial repository to my Ubuntu 12.04 machine (32 bits), in order to install a software called SLTV. According to the official site, the following lines should be used:
deb ...
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yum install failing with strange output
I am using below command to install gcc on my laptop running fedora 17.
yum install gcc
But I am getting strange output.
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Resolving ...
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Install Shutter on Centos
I'm trying to figure out a way to install shutter on Centos. Are there any repos somewhere?
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Is there any sort of online kernel repository or sharing sites (possibly for laptops)
It just seems there should reasonably be something like this considering so many folks run *nix on laptops and laptops have such consistent hardware sets. At a guess I'd imagine there's likely in the ...
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GNU Radio prerequisite libraries on armhf
After several attempts, I have managed to compile GNURadio on the Raspberry Pi. However, I am just not able to meet the prerequisites for the gnuradio build script on the Pandaboard (Linaro 12.04) or ...
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Remove yum repo using yum
I have no root access on my machine at work, but I have sudo permission to use sudo yum (and only yum).
Recently I accidentally installed a faulty repository (dropbox), and now I'd like to remove it. ...
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OpenSUSE: Find all Packages without a repository
I just upgraded to OpenSUSE 12.2 from OpenSUSE 12.1 by changing all of my repositories to target 12.2 (instead of 12.1). Now that I've upgraded, I've found a bunch of packages that have no ...
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How do I get a list of all enabled media in Mageia via CLI?
I have read URPMI from Mageia wiki but there seems to be no mention of how I can check the currently enabled media using urpmi command. There is urpmi.addmedia and urmpi.removemedia. So I tried doing ...
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Download all dependencies with yumdownloader, even if already installed?
Is there a way to download all dependencies with yumdownloader, even if they are already installed?
I'm trying to create a local repo and only want to include the packages we need.
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How to create Local Repositories in RHEL
I need to create a local repository in RHEl 5.5. i386
Because when I type some command in terminal it say that RHEL is not subscribed with RHN which is true. I took it from friend.
So can someone ...
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Trying to use multiple Debian repositories
General situation:
I need to port a Qt project from MS Visual Studio 2010 to Linux (Debian).
In VS 2010 I have Qt v.4.8.1, but in Debian it is Qt v.4.6.1. This difference prevents me from porting, as ...
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Find packages not maintained in main repo? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
listing packages in Debian, a la dpkg -l, but including the package origin/source
E.g. Ubuntu Server offers only security updates for software contained in the main ...
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Are packages downloaded from multiple mirror sites?
I'm running F17 and inside of yum.repos.d. I see multiple repos listed like adobe-linux-1386.repo, fedora.repo, google-chrome.repo, etc. When I yum install are some files being downloaded from ...
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Determining Dependencies and Installing from Directory
I have a directory with all Dependencies in .deb format.
But there are lots of them. I need only those that i need for gimp.
biggenius@hacbook:~/Desktop/rocks/packages$ dpkg-deb -I ...
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How can I install the Epel repository on 64-bit Fedora 17 machine?
How can I install the Epel repository on 64-bit Fedora 17 machine?
I tried:
sudo rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm
and
sudo rpm -Uvh ...
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Managing unofficial repositories on a Debian system
A few years ago I added this repository to my sources.list:
http://www.deb-multimedia.org/
because it contained packages like acroread or flash player, which were either missing or out of date in ...
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Is rpm the only file extension for repositories
I've noticed that repositories in CentOS have the .rpm extension.
Are there other extensions?
Is .rpm specific to the operating system? i.e. do other linux operating systems have other extensions?
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How to checkout Tomcat by SVN?
I try:
svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/tc7.0.x/trunk/
But received error:
svn: E170000: Unrecognized URL scheme for
'http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/tc7.0.x/trunk'
Is it ...
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Some packages in mint not updating
I'm new to Linux Mint 12 and I can't tell for sure, but I think I'm missing some updates. When I run update manager and it's fetching the list of packages to be updated, a bunch of packages list ...
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Unable to install the php-posix package on CentOS 5.6
I have the following PHP packages installed on my CentOS 5.6 host and I am trying to install php-posix. When I run yum install php-posix I receive an error saying that php53-common conflicts with ...
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VMware Tools repo
I maintain a local repository for all the installation packages. I'm attempting to use reposync (the first time, I generally use rsync to mirror what I need) and I'm getting some odd behavior. Any ...
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dag.repo overwritten
I accidentally overwrote dag.repo by trying to add this
[dag]
name=DAG RPM Repository
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
does anyone have the ...
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rpm and deb fileformat are blocked by my ISP. How to install software?
I have a very peculiar problem, Just be patient with what I am saying and then see what all suggestion you can give me.
I have situation where my ISP has blocked .rpm and .deb files to be downloaded. ...
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Which are best repo for Cent OS 5.7? [closed]
Which are best repo for Cent OS 5.7?
Should I install apt-get and use other deb packages on Cent OS?
I mainly used Ubuntu which is really easy to update any packages.
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Launchpad equivalent for Debian
I am thinking of switching to Debian (Squeeze) from Ubuntu (10.10). But these questions have been bugging me:
Is there a Launchpad equivalent repository for Debian? I am not able compile packages ...
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Why are backports called backports?
I'm reading about repositories in debian and i've found backports.
But it sounds strange for me. I feel word back to be indicating older stable versions that are more compatible with less frequently ...
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Why are there Firefox 3.6 in the Linux repositories [closed]
Linux repositories=I mean "in general". So why aren't there any newer version of Firefox available in the repositories? [Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.]
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CentOS yum repository bad Header V4 RSA/SHA1 signature
I was coping with many problems to get stuck with this one.
I have installed yum repository on server (CentOS 5.6) with:
createrepo -v -s sha yumrepo/
sha is used due to solution to my earlier ...
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“Cannot run C compiled programs” error when installing PDO PHP module
I have a cPanel server I want to install some packages on. I connected to the server as root and ran the following commands to update and delete all the existing repositories:
yum update
yum clean ...
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How to update Debian kernel to latest in backports
I have a machine running Debian stable, and I'd like to update the stock kernel to the latest kernel available in the backports repository. There are many kernel-related packages and virtual ...
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Can I use a third-party repository intended for an older version of Ubuntu?
I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 but some repositories i have been using don't support new version of Ubuntu. So, is there any danger in using, say, Ubuntu 10.10 ("Koala") repository for Ubuntu 11.10? May I, ...
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How to manually insert a repository in source.list?
I tried to add a new APT repository using this command:
add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao
but I got a "command not found" error. I tried installing python-software-properties, but it's already ...
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no default repositories in yum
I am trying to install gtk-murrine-engine on my RedHat Linux Client 5.5 using yum install. It says package not available. It appears that there only exists some local repositories in yum , pertaining ...
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Yum Cannot Retrieve Repository CentOS 6
I just installed CentOS 6. I tried running yum update and was having trouble getting that to work, so I tried yum clean all and now my situation seems even worse than before. Based upon what I pasted ...
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The difference between deb versus deb-src in sources.list
I don't understand the difference between these two lines in my sources.list, please explain:
deb http://mirror.optus.net/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
versus
deb-src ...
