RPM Package Manager is a package management system intended primarily for Linux distributions.
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Can rpm handle an install of another OS into another Logical Volume?
I am trying to install fedora as a domU under a CentOS dom0 using the method outlined in The Book of Xen. I have asked another question regarding a consistent error message of cpio: Bad magic when I ...
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Getting “cpio: Bad magic” when trying to rpm install into a mounted Logical Volume
I need some help with this. I am trying to follow the Xen guide to provision a domU using package installation of the Fedora 15 release (the dom0 is CentOS 5.6). Ive run the rpm install command with ...
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Why did yum-builddep not provide the dependencies to install my rpm?
I am trying to rum my rpm package but getting this dependencies error.
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -ivh /root/x86_64/asterisk-1.8.12.2-1.fc15.x86_64.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
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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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httpd-devel requires outdated version of glibc-common on CentOS 6.3
httpd-devel requires an outdated version of glibc-common on CentOS 6.3 x86_64 and Apache/2.2.15. It wants 2.12-1.80.el6 and I have 2.12-1.80.el6_3.3.x86_64 installed (via CentOS @update repo)
Here is ...
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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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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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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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Unpacking kernel-source rpm off-system (OpenSuse)?
I'm using OpenSuse 11.2 from a LiveUSB USB flash/stick, which arguably has not much place on it. I need to get the Linux sources for this version of OpenSuse, as they are needed to build a driver for ...
