RPM Package Manager is a package management system intended primarily for Linux distributions.
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What are the pros/cons of deb vs. rpm?
For whatever reasons, I've always used RPM based distros (Fedora, Centos and currently openSUSE). I have often heard it stated that deb is better than rpm, but when asked why, have never been able to ...
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Why using rpm if there's yum?
As we know yum is a package management system which was built on top of rpm. It's also a command line utility which is a(rudely speaking) broader version of rpm, it resolves many problems(the main is ...
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Open a RPM on a Mac?
I am on a MacBook Pro running Apple Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5.8).
I would like to unpackage a RPM and view the files contained within the wget-1.11.4-2.el5_4.1.src.rpm . I don't need to install the ...
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Is there is a PPA-service equivalent in the Fedora world?
For Ubuntu there is this convenient PPA service available where you can get your own package repository.
You can put there source packages which are under an open source license, e.g. development ...
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Are RPMs valid across platforms?
I'm a little confused about RPM's in Red Hat and/or Fedora (and/or other distros?). I can certainly accept that 64-bit RPM's are needed for 64-bit OS'es and 32-bit for 32-bit OS'es but... If I have ...
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How do I emulate the “Replaces:” function of a Debian package in an RPM?
I need to use NSCD, the Name Service Caching Daemon, to decrease load on our LDAP server, on my SLES10 systems. In my experience, the default nscd, supplied as part of GNU LibC, is garbage, and will ...
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Is there a pbuilder-like environment for RedHat?
I would like to know if is there any utility like Debian's pbuilder, to build RPM packages on RedHat using a clean environment (chroot).
I've found mach which has support for something like this but ...
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Installing a package locally to a user - best practices?
I want to install Git locally to a user on a RHEL server (I don't have root access)
What would be your cleanest/ most organized way of installing software to a local user account?
Installing ...
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What is the proper way to set SELinux context in an RPM .spec?
I am trying to build an RPM that targets RHEL4 and 5. Right now I call chcon from %post but multiple Google entries say "that's not how you are supposed to do it" with very limited help on the right ...
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Why does `man -k cron` say `vixie-cron (rpm)` for some results, and how do I read those pages?
I'm trying to find out some details regarding cron and /etc/cron.d/ on a RedHat system. Ironically, my answer is viewable within the vixie-cron-*.src.rpm for this package, but the the man pages for ...
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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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How to create a list of all applications which were manually installed?
I use Fedora and I'd like to have all the package names in a list, but only the ones I installed myself, not the default ones.
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How to get started with CentOS?
I've been working with Debian GNU/Linux for a long time and am very proficient with it.
However for a new project I've got to got familiar with CentOS ASAP.
So my Question is: How do I get started ...
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GUI for adding Fedora software source
Is there a GUI for adding additional software sources in Fedora (FC 13). I have a software repository that works fine when added manually (as a .repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d/), but I'd like to have ...
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When importing a key during a yum installation, where is that key stored?
I'm installing a piece of software for which I had to use a third-party repository. After adding the repository with rpm -Uvh http://[site], I installed with yum install [package]. One of the ...
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RPM dependencies with localinstall
I need to install an rpm package on a system which has no internet access. So, let's say I already have needed dependencies. How do I install them only by running the main rpm package? Do they need to ...
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How do I tell which GPG key an RPM package was signed with?
The cryptographic signature of an RPM can be verified with the rpm -K command. This returns a string containing gpg (or pgp) and ending in OK if the signature is in RPM's database and is valid.
If ...
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How to make an rpm package that installs a Java environment if needed
I'm very new to RPM packaging and I'm curious if, during the installation of one RPM it is possible to conditionally install another RPM if needed.
In a nutshell.
My RPM requires a particular JRE. ...
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How can I specify OS-conditional build requirements in an RPM spec file?
I am trying to work my way around with the BuildPrereq flag in the spec files.
I want a few pre-requisites to be included if the OS is of a particular version. something like
if os == fedora 4
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getting error “Can't create transaction lock” with rpm
I am slowly making progress on installing Fedora into a Logical Volume for a DomU using Package Management. I have (with the help of the wonderful people at Unix & Linux) resolved a number of ...
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rpmbuild error: Symlink points to BuildRoot
In the package that I'm building, there are symbolic links within the Buildroot directory. For instance this:
/home/sg/impkg/buildroot/dir1/bin/w_be -> /home/sg/impkg/buildroot/dir2/targ/be
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Remove unused packages - Fedora
I have installed some rpm package on my fedora 17. Some packages had a lot of dependencies.
I have removed some packages but I forgot remove unused dependencies with yum remove.
How can I do that ...
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How to “rpm -i” a package only when an older version does not exist?
I wish to install some RPM packages from a shell script. I want to ensure that each package is indeed installed, but I do not want to update a package that would already have an older version ...
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Which RedHat packages for CentOS?
I want to use a RedHat rpm Software Package for CentOS 5.6, but I dont know which version of RedHat works with CentOS 5.6.
RedHat 4 = CentOS 4?
RedHat 5 = CentOS 5?
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RPM subpackage name
Is it possible to make a subpackage without the inherited prefix from the master package?
I have a project that has a single install and need to split this into multiple packages, but the subpackages ...
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How can I verify that a PGP key is imported into RPM?
One can import a key with:
rpm --import /path/to/key
But how can you tell later if you have already imported this key? Trying to reimport it will fail with an error and I am trying to avoid this ...
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Python 2.7 on CentOS 5
Are there any half-official repositories for CentOS 5 with Python 2.7?
EPEL provides only Python 2.6
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What packages are required to install vim on Fedora?
What RPM packages are required to install vim on a recent version of Fedora?
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Is it stable to use epel and rpmforge in the same time?
So after a fresh Scientific Linux 6.3 Desktop install, I:
yum install rpmforge-release && yum update
and
yum install epel-release.noarch
then:
yum install wine gparted cups-pdf ...
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How to keep the content of the BuildRoot?
The good old rpm while building package in steps simply kept the content of the BuildRoot -- it was very useful for me, because if some piece of software was difficult to create, I could check ...
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How to build a cross-distro binary RPM package?
I'm trying to build a cross-distro binary RPM package that works under Fedora and openSUSE. I'm using a Require: tag to set the dependencies package names. The problem is that the package names are ...
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How to programmatically determine the highest version kernel RPM installed?
What I want to script is something along the lines of:
if [ uname -r is not == highest version of kernel RPM installed ]
then
echo "You need to reboot to use the latest kernel"
fi
The problem is, ...
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Removing information such as soft links from an RPM package on Linux
I provide an RPM package that contains both 32-bit and 64-bit applications, and can be installed in either mode, i.e. on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.
As the package contains both applications, ...
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How to force rpm to check dependencies during upgrade?
We have a current version of our software that has a dependency on MySQL 5.1 and this is specified in the RPM requires.
For our new version, we now require MySQL 5.5 and specify this in the RPM ...
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How does createrepo work. How does yum understand parse its files. A conceptual explanation
I am not looking for a how-to on creating a repo (createrepo) or using yum.
I want to understand how they work together.
I want to know what files yum looks at and why, what those files contain.
I ...
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unresolved dependencies of bz* files for rpm make from source
I am trying to do a build of rpm from source. I got through the ./configure and ran through a good chunk of make. Unfortunately I keeping getting stopped up on undefined references to bzerror, ...
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reposync exclude subdirs from mirror
Is there a way to make the reposync command ignore a subdir of a public repo when mirroring it ?
It seems to only want to sync on the url that has the /repodata/ & /repoview/ dirs, but i'm ...
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RPM package naming convention
I'm a little confused with RPM package naming.
When I do:
vickey@tb:/usr/include$ rpm -qf event.h
libevent-devel-2.0.10-2.fc15.i686
And:
vickey@tb:/usr/include$ repoquery --list ...
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How to install packages to a custom location in centos6
I have a shared location, let me call it /tp I want to install all my libraries and packages in this location just like the default install. Reason to do this is: I want all the users in the network ...
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Using YUM or installing APT on CentOS
I am having trouble with a centOS machine I am using. I need some packages, including john the ripper, but yum cannot find the packages.
When I type sudo yum install john, I get back the nothing to ...
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Prelink warning in output of rpm -Va
I have run the following as root on a RHEL 4 box to get a list of the modified files:
rpm -Va
The output includes lines such as:
prelink: /tmp/#prelink#.60m2Jq: Recorded 2 dependencies, now seeing ...
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Any way to register source-built software with rpm/yum database?
When I install a software from its binary package using rpm or yum, I can later query for meta-information (rpm -qi PACKAGE, rpm -ql PACKAGE, ...) and can uninstall it (rpm -e PACKAGE).
But with the ...
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rpmbuild: How can I 'Require' one package *or* another
So, I'm trying to fix a spec file right now for rpmbuild.
On Suse, it looks like the X11 library development package is named "xorg-x11-libX11-devel" while on CentOS it seems to be named ...
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rpmbuild: Is there a way to specify recommended packages
So, search as I might, I can't find anything about specifying recommended packages in a spec file.
I wouldn't even consider it possible if I hadn't seen it in the spec file for Mono 2.10.9. It reads ...
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Turn a bash and php script into a distributable rpm
I'm semi unix knowledgeable and I want to be able to call down an rpm from my server, run it with something like rpm -i , and have access to the script anywhere.
The script is a combination awk and ...
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How to check available package versions in rpm systems?
If I want to check available versions of a package in Debian, I run apt-cache policy pkgname which in the case of wajig gives:
wajig:
Installed: 2.01
Candidate: 2.01
Version table:
*** 2.01 0
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How do I get UUENCODE to work?
I have a server that I have inherited that has an older version of Redhat installed due to software requirements and now there is a need to use UUENCODE to allow email attachments. The uuencode and ...
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How should I search for packages to install on CentOS 5.5?
Backstory: Recently, it was explained to me that to upgrade any package via terminal on a linux machine, I will need to use the distributions package management system to install or upgrade the ...
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What RPMs do I need for timeconfig?
I've got setuptools set up and have read through the list of what's in /etc/setuptools.d
I'm interested in installing timeconfig as well, but I only need the TUI version (no GUI). Which RPMs do I ...
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CentOS: List the installed RPMs by date of installation/update?
I'm on a CentOS 4 machine. I updated and installed some packages a few weeks back, but I don't remember the name of every package or the names of every dependency. I used yum.
Can I list the packages ...
