Questions tagged [rpm]
RPM is a package management system intended primarily for Linux distributions.
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Wine is still available after uninstalling it
I am facing a problem that I don't understand on a CentOS 7.4 box.
Someone installed a wine and didn't documented how they installed it (was it with yum, directly with a rpm or built from sources? I ...
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How to manually force reload of files from an RPM package?
After a Fedora distro upgrade (27->28) with dnf, I tried to manually resolve conflicts between package versions (needed to keep older OS versions functional; effective OS version is selected at boot ...
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rpm -ivh file.rpm throws error already installed [closed]
I uninstalled gitlab using gitlab ctl uninstall, removed /etc/gitlab, /var/opt/gitlab,/var/log/gitlab. After that I erased rpm using rpm -e file.rpm. Now when I am installing a new file.rpm, it throws ...
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How to use Bash for sh in Ubuntu
I am installing a huge program, which has its resources as an rpm file. It stuck at the line of
#!/bin/sh
SCITEGICPERLBIN=`dirname $0`
SCITEGICPERLHOME=`dirname $SCITEGICPERLBIN`
if [ $...
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How to temporarily disable and permanently disable repos in Debian based systems?
I know how to do it on Red Hat based systems.
yum –disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel update
The above command will temporarily disable all repos and enable epel and update only epel packages.
yum ...
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how to identify wrong/bad repo in my linux machine?
dear friends and colleges,
I want to share with you the following issue , and I am sure this important to some of the colleges here
I want to verify the that all repo in my linux machine are ok
so ...
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How to update a disconnected CentOS system from a list of installed RPMs?
I have spend a lot of time looking for a good solution on how to update a disconnected CentOS 7 system but have not found a suitable solution yet.
Most solutions on how to update an disconnected ...
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yum + print all available security updates that are not installed
regarding redhat 7 linux
the following yum syntax print the list of all available security updates without installing them ( the installed rpm's and the non installed )
# yum updateinfo list ...
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Questions regarding the way rpm installation/upgrade takes place
Below is the quote from my textbook while explaining naming convention of a package (eg : packagename-a.b.c-x.arch.rpm).
Build No : The number following the version number (x) is the build
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How can I compare the pristine configuration files with the contents of /etc?
Being tasked to put several machines under configuration management I was wondering how I could go about comparing the configuration files from all installed packages with the contents of /etc and any ...
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How are RPM packages marked as "security" updates?
If I am applying yum install -y --security and a package is updated; how is the package "marked" as a security update?
For example, lets say I have a package blah that I maintain, its current version ...
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rpm mock - complex rpm building
Lets say I want to make an RPM which delivers an Apache Webserver with its own OpenSSL:
/mydir/apache_postfix1
/mydir/openssl_postfix1
Since Apache mod_ssl requires a real OpenSSL installation I ...
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dnf: (something) was supposed to be installed but is not!
I see that it is an error that happend here and there for some packages, but I didnt find any solution working for me.
Everything broke down trying to install Jupyter by dnf install python2-qtconsole ...
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How install pcnfs on Centos 7
I have CentOS 7.2 on my NFS server, but I can't find the rpm for pcnfs. I have some DOS clients that use pcnfs authentication for mounting partitions. Due to an old netapp being removed, I need ...
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CentOS RPM: Find repo with older version of the lib
I need to find older version of the lib: cairo-1.14.2-1.el7. In EPEL there is a newer version, but I can't use it. If I find an RPM package of cairo and try to install it, it fails because there are ...
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need to stop initv service before rpm removal/upgrade?
Is there a need to stop a service before performing the removal or upgrade of the service's RPM package?
Normally, what the RPM package manager does when performing an upgrade is to install the new ...
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Modify RPM package to remove dependencies
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We build an RPM package that automatically detect dependencies (no Requires in .spec file). How can I remove dependencies from this RPM package.
Long story:->
I'm shipping the dynamic ...
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package versioning across distributions [closed]
Goal is to identify a package version across distros RPM based Fedora, CentOS, RedHat etc. Can I rely on upstream version to be same on all the distros? If yes then how can I retrieve (RPM or DEB) ...
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How to use rpmbuild to build a rpm package from binary tarball?
Resources on Internet are all about how to build a rpm files from source code.
But I have already got compiled binary tarball of software. But I don't want to directly extract it to / , because it ...
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Update directory full of rpms
I've got a directory with about 400 rpms. What can I do to make yum/rpm fetch the last version from the system repository with all its dependencies and replace the old rpm? I'm using CentOS 6.4.
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How do i list out all dependencies for a package in Centos/Rhel?
I am trying to install below tools on a system where i don't have internet connection.
nodejs with npm
jdk8
firefox
scripty
In order to get all the dependencies & packages, i logon to a system ...
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Unable to yum install package with repo configured
I am trying to install packages but I am not able to find them with yum install while I have them in the mirror.
Here is the content of my /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-OpenShift-Origin36.repo:
[centos-...
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Script to get appropriate rpm package
I've two packages available on CentOS 7 system:
package-6.34-1.el7.i686.rpm (32-bit)
package-6.34-1.el7.x86_64.rpm (64-bit)
I'm looking for a command to fetch the appropriate package full name based ...
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Is there an option to log console output from package installation executed by kickstart?
I've built an ISO on top of CentOS 6 minimal that bundles some additional packages. Generally it works great, but some recent change I've made has broken it a little: the SELinux module I'm allegedly ...
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File mode in 7 digit octal format
rpm --dump will print file mode in 7-digit octal format:
$ rpm -q --dump rpm | grep -E '/usr/bin/rpmdb|/var/lib/rpm ' | cut -d' ' -f1,5
/usr/bin/rpmdb 0100755
/var/lib/rpm 040755
$
What do all those ...
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"rpm -qa --changelog package_name" not listing CVE numbers for one package, but works fine for others
I'm trying to find out what vulnerabilities are already fixed for mysql* packages, but to my surprise the changelog is not listing any CVE numbers.
When I run rpm -qa --changelog package_name it ...
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Get rpm installation order (Areca hw bus reset)
We have a standard configuration for all of our machines. Installation is via a script which installs approx 800 packages over a minimum Centos 6 install.
This has worked fine for 5 years already.
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how to install ccrypt on CentOS
I'm trying to install ccrypt on centOS, but I'm getting the following error:
yum install ccrypt
No package ccrypt available.
I tried to download the rpm and install it manually but it will require ...
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rpm reports dependency missing, but it is present?
I want to install this rpm (of course I can install it with -nodeps but I don't like this "solution").
LANG=C rpm -Uvh /home/pippiripi/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/oracle-fdw-27012018git-1.el7.centos.x86_64....
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Why should you always use `rpm -U` and not `rpm -i` to install package?
rpm has a -i (--install) option to install a package
rpm has a -U (--upgrade) option that will install or upgrade a package
The red hat documentation indicates that rpm -i is perfectly acceptable.
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Yum repository throwing - [Errno -1] Package does not match intended download
I am building a Yum repository to install RPM packages.
I am creating a folder mkdir -p ~/yum/el7/x86_64 and moving rpm file to it under same path given above.
Here is my my-app.repo file info.
[my-...
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What kind of RPM packages should I use for armv7l
Suppose I get something like this from uname.
Linux localhost 3.8.13-mrvl #12 PREEMPT Wed Aug 12 10:15:36 PDT 2015 armv7l
I presume I should use armv7hl packages?
The device is Steam Link. The ...
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Find the telnet-server in CentOS7.2
I use yum installed telnet-server in my CentOS-7.2:
yum install -y telnet-server
The above prints:
Downloading packages:
telnet-server-0.17-64.el7.x86_64.rpm ...
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Downgrading the `kernel-devel-3.10.0-xxx.el7.x86_64.rpm`
I use the wget download the kernel-devel, then I want install it, but it seems has been installed by yum:
$ rpm -i kernel-devel-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64.rpm
warning: kernel-devel-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64....
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Without using the Yum cache, can I retrieve or reconstruct an RPM after it has been installed?
My company manages some RHEL 7 systems for various customers. One customer in particular has a package installed from a non-default repository on their system. Several weeks ago, that repository ...
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Is it possible to download RPM packages and their dependencies in a Mac?
I want to install some packages (.rpm files) on a RedHat system with no internet access. So, I'd have to download the packages on another system and copy them to the target system. But I do not have ...
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What is the purpose of /usr/lib/.build-id/ dir?
After a fresh inst of f27 (netinstall) I noticed that many pkgs place tiny files in /usr/lib/.build-id/ dir. At 1st I thought I somehow had enabled some obscure "debug" mode for dnf, but even
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How correct update rpm if preremove.sh scipt run after postinstall.sh?
cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core)
yum list yum
yum.noarch 3.4.3-154.el7.centos
Repo: https://github.com/patsevanton/simple-package-update
I build 1-th and 2-th ...
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Is it possible to build a Linux distro supporting both RPM and .deb packages?
I am wondering if it is theoretically possible to build a Linux distro that can both support rpm and debian packages.
Are there any distros live out there that support both?
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When upgrading an rpm previously installed with prefixes, how to make sure the same prefixes are used?
On RHEL 7.2 I have installed an rpm with the command
# rpm -ivh --relocate /some/default/prefix=/some/custom/prefix example-1.rpm
Now I want to upgrade example.rpm to version 2 and make sure that ...
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sh4gcc cross-compiler installation for Centos 7
I am trying to compile a program which requires sh4gcc cross-compiler and I'm not able to find any rpm package which provides sh4gcc compiler.
On executing this command
[root@localhost stapp]# make ...
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yum + unpacking of archive failed
during hive installation we get the following errors
/usr/bin/yum install hive_2_6_0_3_8
Installing : hive_2_6_0_3_8-1.2.1000.2.6.0.3-8.noarch ...
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How do you use rpmbuild to make an rpm package when there are file not found or permission errors?
I am trying to create an RPM file for the wget utility. Both of my attempts (with sudo and without sudo) to use the rpmbuild comman fail to create an .rpm file.
I run a "sudo rpmbuild" command to ...
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is this possible to uninstall rpm package in only one command from list>> grep >> uninstall?
I'm thinking about include 3 steps to uninstall a package on CentOS7 but stuck in merge 3 command of uninstall a package to only 1 command.
Okay, this is my situation: I have java package jdk-8u151-...
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Can a package be installed but not seen by yum or rpm commands?
I want to install a HP CLI utility so I first check the dependencies and find out that something called rpmlib is needed :
[root@centos2 ~]# rpm -qRp hp-health-10.30-1752.15.rhel7.x86_64.rpm | grep
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RPM install file conflict from previous install
I am getting install failure due to file conflicts. I am facing this issue only on Red Hat Linux 7. Same spec file works on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions.
I tried putting echo on %pre, %post, %...
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CentOS new repositories install
I am trying to install a package but this package needs to some dependencies. You can see installation output at below.
error: Failed dependencies:
jack-audio-connection-kit = 1.9.9.5-6.el7 is ...
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Target initialization failed. Failed to cache rpm database (1)
I am running an openSUSE leap 42.2 64 bit os on my laptop. I was trying to install some packages including nautilus-dropbox, so I added the packman repo.
After zypper update, there were some packages ...
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`rpm -qa` vs `yum list installed`: Why certain packages can be found with `rpm -qa` only?
I've Python 2.7.5 installed in CentOS and wondering why I can find this using rpm -qa but not yum list installed command?
[root@CentOS7 centos]# python -V
Python 2.7.5
[root@CentOS7 centos]#
[root@...
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libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.20)(64bit) is needed by skypeforlinux-8.9.0.1-1.x86_64
My environment:
$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core)
$ uname -a
Linux X 3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Oct 20 20:32:50 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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