Questions tagged [repository]
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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Update package perl-*
I have a linux machine Oracle Linux Server 8.7 with kernel 5.4.17-2136.317.5.3.el8uek.x86_64.
Using the yum check-update command, I noticed that there are a number of perl-packages that I can't update....
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Why newly created mirror repository is not working as source one
I'm using RockyLinux 8.5 on my test server and i want to create local repository for some applications as i won't have internet access in real case, only local repos.
I've downloaded package with it's ...
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Self-Hosted Photo Sharing Tool for Debian
Searching the web you can find a lot of self-hosted photo sharing tools. Just to name a few open source projects:
NextCloud
Photoprism
Piwigo
Lychee
LibrePhotos
Coppermine
MediaGoblin
Uber Gallery
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Fedora: Error when install Postgres SQL: nothing provides libicui18n.so.69()
I had installed the Postgresql database on my Fedora system, which worked without problems.
After some time I had uninstalled Postgres and wanted to reinstall it.
When reinstalling with the following ...
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methodology [reposync?] for updating offline linux servers?
having servers that do not have an internet connection, what is the proper method for getting all necessary rpms so that a yum update does not fail because of dependency problems?
Is there any other ...
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List all installed packages from a certain repository in ubuntu / debian
How to list all packages that I have installed from a certain repository in ubuntu / debian without using any exotic command, even the aptitude, just basic ones, like apt list --installed, or from ...
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Unable to configure yum ftp repository
I managed to configure successfully an ftp repository access using the default directory /var/ftp/pub using the anonymous user
I could install and download packages from node.
Now i am trying to ...
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Need to check where reposync is saving the .rpm files
I am working in a yum repository that is for RHEL6 (This is our copy of the RHEL6 yum repo). I need to do reposync so that this server can get the latest version of all the packages. I need to know in ...
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libqt5 packages for oracle linux
I need to install on Oracle linux 9 a vpn client (Zscaler, here the details about it).
On Zscaler documentation are listed as dependecies several packages of libqt5 and I don't have any repository ...
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Listing all Yum repos without internet access
With my enterprise, we are looking to block full internet access to the linux servers.
Without internet, I cannot do for example: yum -v repolist all
I am trying to get every URL from /etc/yum/...
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Unable to install php-oci8 in oracle linux 9 via remi repository
I have installed remi repository but I was unable to install php. So, instead I have installed php via stream with the following command which seems that uses remi repo.
dnf module install php:8.1
Now,...
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How can I install mod_bw for Apache in Oracle Linux 9?
I tried to install mod_bw for Apache web server in Oracle Linux 9,
but without success.
The problem is that I am already using the EPEL repository
for Enterprise Linux 9. I tried this:
yum install ...
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Installing MS SQL Server on Debian 11 -- Repo Signature Problem
trying install MS SQL Server 2022 on Debian 11 is driving me crazy, as I'm not being able to add MS repo properly.
First of all, step-by-step guide by Microsoft -just for Ubuntu- in this page: https://...
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how to get rid of 16.04 repository configured on my 22.04 system?
when i add sudo apt update to my terminal i got a warning which is related to having xenial (16.04 repository) on my 22.04 system. i add find /etc/apt -type f -exec grep xenial {} + command and i'll ...
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Fedora Server 36 - update process automatically closes user’s session
This latest Saturday and today, through VirtualBox for Fedora Server 36, as many times as I did do, was executed the sudo dnf update command, the password is written and
Starts to load and show some ...
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E: The repository 'http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease' is not signed. for ubuntu 22.04
while downloading ros2 packages i was Updating my apt repository cachessudo apt update, i get the following output,with E: The repository 'http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease' ...
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How do I query a repo and find out its content?
How would I find out more information about a repo within RHEL?
For instance, I would like to know what packages it holds, as well as information on size, its description/purpose, etc. I know that you ...
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What's the difference between repo id and repo name on RPM based distributions?
When I run yum repolist all on a Red Hat system, it lists both a "repo ID" and "repo name". I'm confused as to how a single repository has multiple IDs. Is it because a repository ...
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Linux package managers for ARM devices
Normally package managers like apt work for X86 and X64 systems.
How does the Linux package manager aptrunning on a Rasberry Pi for example know that the binaries to be fetched and installed must be ...
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Server has lots of disk space in use, running commands to list which folders are taking up lots of space, are not working
Trying to list folders, specifically git repositories that are taking up most of the disk space within the server.
du -x -h /apps/bitbucket-home/shared/data/repositories/ | sort -h | tail -40
This ...
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Where do I get the x11 driver for linux on Centos 7.9 with Nvidia 5.20 driver support?
I used to get the x11 driver from elrepo, however now it appears that it's behind what I am required to install https://pkgs.org/search/?q=nvidia-x11-drv and is stuck at 5.15, where as when I install ...
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Can I safely remove this blackarch file?
I have added blackarch repository to my Arch Linux installation. But after some time I deleted that repository with the help of this question. But then I find out that there is still some blackarch ...
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Set a Local Repository Offline for Lubuntu 22 clients
If You have more than 30 cloned clients that are set as infopoints running Lubuntu 22 with a local webserver that, for security reasons, are offline from internet and you wants to have the possibility ...
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repo-add doesn't modify database file
I want to create/modify local repository for pacman (MSYS MINGW64). I downloaded nessesary packages with command:
$ pacman -Syw --cachedir . --dbpath database mingw-w64-x86_64-llvm
After that, I ...
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GPG error- The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG
We have a self-hosted Debian repository, from where we are fetching all the packages.
While running the "apt update" on target machine, we are getting below error-
W: GPG error: http://...
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Can you add docker repository to apt-cacher-ng?
My debian 11 server1 doesn't have internet access and it installs cached debian packages from another server2 that has apt-cacher-ng installed. The sources.list file in server1 points to apt-cacher-...
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sudo apt-add-repository multiverse gives error Connection refused
I am trying to add i386 sources to 64bit Linux Mint as per the instructions for SteamCMD. However I get the following error:
user@mintpc:/home/steam/games/steamapps$ sudo apt-add-repository multiverse
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Search [not install] without syncthing on Fedora
I would want to know if it is possible to search packages in Fedora (using dnf) without it having to sync anything previously.
I've read Fedora wiki about rpm, but I don't think I understand properly ...
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Is there a tool for managing apt repositories that allows multiple versions of the same package?
I am currently using reprepro to manage a public repository for a small number of packages (source, and binaries for amd64 and arm64) across several different distributions. This is working smoothly ...
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Debian - check which versions of a package were previously installed
Let's take NGINX as an example. I've installed NGINX and after a year it has received several security updates (through unattended-upgrades) and another system operator ran apt-get upgrade a couple of ...
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Linux Repositories - Any Limits?
All or most Linux repositories are voluntarily hosted/mirrored for others to download free software.
For example, you could download the same package(s) over and over again (with the same IP) and make ...
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error failed to download repository information check your internet connection
My computer ha sUbuntu 20.04.4 LTS (codename : focal) with a R version 4.2.1 . When using software updater I always get the error "error failed to download repository information check your ...
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Decode package and directory structure to URL from `/etc/apt/sources.list.d/` repo file
I'm not an apt user, but I'm in a scenario, where I need to grab a .deb package off of a repo.
I'm not a user of a deb-based distro, so I can't easily install a deb repo for what I need it. This would ...
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How to create custom repo and make it available within network through Apache on Centos7?
So i need to create custom repo & make it available within network through Apache.
Steps i did.
sudo yum install createrepo
sudo yum install yum-utils
Got tools to create repo
sudo mkdir –p /var/...
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How can I prevent apt update from checking specific components?
I sometimes come across repositories that include many components, or at least I think that's what they're called. An example of this, is the repository including Insomnia. When I run apt update after ...
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RHEL8 - Added yum repositories not working with not resolving (yum config-manager --add-repo)
Try to create 2 repositories for BaseOS and AppStream via http://server1.example.local
yum config-manager --add-repo=http://server1.example.local/BaseOS
yum config-manager --add-repo=http://server1....
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RHEL 7 EPEL broken
My RHEL version:
[root@x]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.9 (Maipo)
I have followed the instructions here for RHEL 7 to enable EPEL: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/...
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Why are there pre-compiled packages in repositories?
I love (the way) how Linux & Co. lets users install many packages from different repositories.
AFAIK, they come also with source-packages, so you can compile them by yourself.
But why even bother ...
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Getting rid of "The following packages will be DOWNGRADED"
I'll start by stating, I'm pretty sure this is a unique mess of my own design, but I hope someone encountered this and might be able to help.
The Setup
My laptop runs Pop!_OS 22.04 (Based on Ubuntu ...
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What is the relation/difference between "Package Manager" or "Package Management"?
I read in many tutorials about apt and dnf and others where the "Package Manager" and "Package Management" terms are used - but just being curious:
What is the relation/difference ...
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How did this Rancher/SUSE packaging problem go so wrong?
This is like a retrospective on a problem I just narrowed down. I believe there must be some kind of solution in the package manager to provide a better user-experience. I'm going to describe what ...
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Where to find pstreams-devel package for Rocky Linux 8 (EPEL)?
It seems there is no pstreams-devel package in Rocky Linux 8. I was wondering why it has not been included and if there is a way to get it from some extra repository?
The last reference to it that I ...
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How do I update R CRAN packages when updating from Debian buster to bullseye?
I need to update a server, which has the R statistics system installed from the CRAN repo, from Debian 10 (buster) to Debian 11 (bullseye).
The "repo line" for the buster CRAN repo is stored ...
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Why are there updates for relatively stable programs like Vim, zip, tar or xxd?
After I do an apt update, there are updates to packages like vim, tar or xxd. Since these are relatively stable, why do they have frequent updates?
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How to know the size of the repos on a website link and also download it?
I want to see the size of the repos and if they are okay to download in my laptop in case I don't have access to the internet.
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
In my ...
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cannot read repomd.xml [closed]
I am trying to install additional packages from a RHEL-8 installation DVD on a server that is not connected to the internet. I mounted the DVD ISO on /mnt/cdrom. I have the following in my /etc/yum....
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Is Fedora's Metalink Configuration File Shared Anywhere?
I have inherited administration of an air-gaped network with mirrors of various Linux repositories. Currently how the EPEL repository is configured is by using the baseurl key in the epel.repo ...
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Request for help repairing output of apt update
This is the output of sudo apt update
I would appreciate it if someone could help me fix the problems, I'm only new to Linux.
I'm running (Linux kali 5.16.0-kali5-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 5.16.14-...
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debian login screen
It's not a big problem but I wondering why this happened.
I installed 32-bit Debian without GUI as a primary OS but I added Kali Linux repos "add new source list called 'kali.list' with kali ...
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Ubuntu local repository results "Hash Sum mismatch" error
I am using a local repository server to update all Linux flavors, in that I have configured Ubuntu 20 server to update Ubuntu 20 servers as well, which started giving below error recently. Tried ...
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