Questions tagged [rpm]
RPM is a package management system intended primarily for Linux distributions.
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How does YUM decide which package is the best install candidate for a dependency when there are several options?
I have a package that I need to be compatible with openjdk 11 and oracle java 11. I'm trying to create a metapackage that can depend on openjdk java 11 or oracle java 11:
My openjdk metapackage spec ...
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Install specific version and arch, without specifying the release
Assume I want to install the glibc-devel package with version 2.17 and i686 arch. Assume I don't care about the specific release.
Assume as well that this is being run from a script, such that yum --...
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How to automate recompiling with custom patches for repository sources when updates are available?
I have some patches that I want to apply to various software that I run which add customization that is unlikely to be accepted or has been rejected upstream.
I can already download the source for ...
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Problems with installing packages using rpm package manager
I am currently trying to install packages on CentOS based machine which doesnot have yum, so I need to use rpm for installation. I grabbed the required rpm pacckages and try to install it like this
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Repackage RPM (Inverse of rpm2cpio)
How can I modify a couple of files inside a binary .rpm archive without changing anything else?
The rpm I want to modify contains some code for a kernel module that fails to build due to a change in ...
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Is it possible to create an RPM package from an install script?
I'd like to easily create RPM packages for some random projects that do not come bundled as RPM (or whose RPMs are severely outdated).
Take the Pop OS GTK theme as an example.
Installing the theme ...
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Why is my rpmbuild %{dist} .fc30.fc30 instead of just .fc30?
I have a .spec file:
Name: somefile
Version: 1.0.0
Release: 1%{?dist}
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Which produces an RPM:
somefile-1.0.0-1.fc30.fc30.noarch.rpm
Why is %{dist} applying .fc30 twice? ...
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How to set time scheduler for keeping cache in yum config?
I'm using centos 7 and I change the value of the keep cache in /etc/yum.conf to 1 for keeping the rpm file.
but now I want to set time scheduler for keeping this rpm file.
for example, I want to keep ...
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Compare Key ID of RPM package with Key Fingerprint of RPM-GPG-KEY
During work with RPM packages I frequently need to validate signatures against available GPG keys.
Using
rpm -qip --nosignature <package.rpm> | grep Signature
gives me an Key ID, i.e.:
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Why is the procedure for building RPMs so isolated?
I'm learning how to create RPMs for my own packages. Normally I can do everything while logged into my own account but instructions on making RPMs always seem to want you to use some other account.
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yum + dependencies not logical when installing openjdk
we are tryng to install the java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel-1.8.0.161-2.b14.el7.x86_64.rpm
yum localinstall java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel-1.8.0.161-2.b14.el7.x86_64.rpm
Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, ...
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rpm fault following db package upgrade
I'm in the process of upgrading the internal packages in AIX 7.1. After upgrading the db package with db-6.2.32-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm from the AIX toolbox page rpm commands no longer works. I've check the ...
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Yum doesn't update package dependency
I have a package, for just simplicity, named as 'main1', which depends on 'dependant-package' - in the rpm, there is no version number requirement specified, so in my system, yum installed 'dependant-...
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Cannot boot to fedora 29 - Bad RIP Value
I tried to install GFORTRAN_7 on f29 since I needed libfortran.so.4 for a program.
What I did
I've found the rmp file (libgfortran4-7.3.1-alt9.x86_64.rpm), downloaded it and tried to install it.
I ...
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Is it possible to for an RPM to run a script if a dependency is updated?
I'm thinking of writing an RPM that contains a Python virtual environment. A Python virtual environment contains a copy of the Python executable (which is a thin shell around the Python shared library)...
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Update specific file in RPM, how does --change-files option work?
I'm trying to repack a RPM package with rpmrebuild command, according to the manual I can update files with --change-files option.
--change-files="pgm1 a b c"
But the manual didn't say much about ...
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Install packages in CentOS without root from non enabled repository
I need to install a high number of packages in a computer running Scientific Linux 6 (based on RHEL 6) for which I don't have root access.
After much tinkering and internet searching I found this ...
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How are rpm transactions used in `yum update`?
Is the whole yum update transactional or is every resolved update individually?
If the yum update detects Foo and Bar need to be updated, and Bar fails because it now collides with installed package ...
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Yum in Amazon Linux 2 still asks for GPG key even after “rpm --import” when adding Kubernetes repo
I'm trying to add a kubernetes repo to my Amazon Linux 2 instance and struggle with automatically adding GPG keys.
This is my /etc/yum.repos.d/kubernetes.repo...
[kubernetes]
name=Kubernetes
baseurl=...
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rpm doesn't work and gets an error
I typed sudo rpm install into my terminal and then I got following error :
error: missing ':' (found 0x00) at /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/rpmrc:1
how can I solve that?
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Transfer RPMs file with Ansible and localinstall them
I am having the following yaml ansible-playbook and want to transfer the rpms and then localinstall them on the remote machine.
Until the transfer file step its working fine however on the ...
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Does librpm provide for querying the RPM database with the syntax found in the SPEC file?
Let's say the SPEC file contains,
Requires: python >= 1.3, perl
Without forging a whole RPM, is there anyway to query the database for whether or not a a query like the following is satisfied by ...
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What are the contents of /var/lib/rpm; where are they documented?
In my /var/lib/rpm, I have the following files,
$ file *
Basenames: Berkeley DB (Btree, version 9, native byte-order)
Conflictname: Berkeley DB (Btree, version 9, native byte-order)
__db.001: ...
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yum + dependencies errors
during yum installation , we get the following dependencies errors
Error: Package: openldap-2.4.40-8.el7.i686 (@local)
Requires: libplds4.so
Removing: nspr-4.10.8-2.el7_1.i686 (@...
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yumdownloader the rpm for redhat 7.3
we have redhat machines version 7.2
we want to upgrade to version - 7.3
we can do it as
# subscription-manager register --auto-attach
# yum --releasever=7.3 update
this will upgrade online the OS
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Centos 7 python update package python-2.7.5-80 rpm
I am looking for this RPM python-2.7.5-80.el7_6.x86_64.rpm to address the security issue. yum update not getting this package?
Any idea how to get this version of rpm for centos 7?
Thanks
Update
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How to redirect a command with parameters in bash?
I want to output "hello" when rpm -qf /etc/redhat-release is typed.
Otherwise rpm should work as it would normally.
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Why do I have a `/root/.rpmdb` folder on a Debian-based distro?
I just noticed my Devuan ASCII machine has a /root/.rpmdb folder.
Why would it have been created, seeing how I use apt DEB files, not RPMs? And - how safe is it to delete it?
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rpmgraph: https://linux.die.net/man/8/rpmgraph USAGE and capabilities, Fedora, CentOs, RedHat
PROBLEM:
I'm trying to get this program running, I want to make a topological map/graph of the dependencies and packages on a rpm system:
rpm-devel-4.14.2-1.fc29.x86_64.rpm Fedora 29 Download
gives ...
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What are possible reasons why root user receives “Permission denied” when trying to read or write files?
I am trying to upgrade an application using an RPM package, but I receive the error:
cpio: failure to open file, Permission denied
The file it tries to open is located at /etc/rc.d/init.d where ...
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How to list all installed packages with the .rpm extension. Fedora, Centos, RedHat
How do I get a list of all installed packages with the .rpm extension?
I am testing this on a Fedora 28.
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How to topologically sort installed rpm packages?
I want to sort topologically, according to dependencies, all installed rpm packages on my Fedora with most required packages to be on top (for example glibc) and least required packages to be on ...
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When I use `rpm -import`, there get `curl: (35) Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s).` error
When I use rpm -import, there get curl: (35) Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s). error:
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -import https://www.elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo....
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upgrade openssh rpm error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/ssh-keygen: cpio: rename failed - Permission denied
rpm -Uvh openssh-5.3p1-124.el6_10.x86_64.rpm openssh-server-5.3p1-124.el6_10.x86_64.rpm openssh-clients-5.3p1-124.el6_10.x86_64.rpm openssh-askpass-5.3p1-124.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
warning: openssh-5.3p1-...
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How to completely uninstall java from RHEL?
When I do which java I get the following output:
which java
/dir/java/bin/java
I have already uninstalled java rpm using the following
`rpm -qa | grep -i java`
rpm -e rpm-name
Still java is not ...
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How to Install a local .rpm file by automatically downloading/installing other dependencies
I want to install a locally downloaded .rpm file and any other dependencies that would be required while running this install, automatically.
The question is very specific to locally downloaded, so ...
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Can we use both dnf and Microdnf simultaneously?
I am getting below error message when I use dnf and microdnf simultaneously to install/remove packages.
error: failed loading RPMDB
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RHEL-7.4 Linux rpm file Installation error
I tried to install rpm file in RHEL-7.4 Linux using:
# rpm -i xxx.rpm
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5WIuFR: line 9: /etc/init.d/xxx-driver: Permission denied
What is this error and how to resolve it?
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Failed building rpm package using mock
I have read this QA :
rpm mock - complex rpm building
I still do not understand why I failed to build rpm package.
When building rpm using mock, I got this error.
Failed to create directory /var/...
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How to create RPM for generic Perl module
I have a generic Perl module that will run on any release of Perl 5. I need to create an RPM for it that will install it into the vendor_perl subdirectory.
I don't want to create different RPMs for ...
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Yum is not respecting `Requires` maximum version. How can I debug and check what yum thinks the dependency version is?
I manage an RPM package and there are versions numbered like:
my-package-1.1.1-1, my-package-1.1.2-1, my-package-1.1.3-1, my-package-1.2.0-0.alpha01.1.
I'm now trying to get another package to ...
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RPM making error from
When I am building drbd-utils-9.5.0 rpms from source offline and I am getting error "No such file or directory" as follows.
So how can I build rpms offline resolving the issue ?
[root@db1 drbd-...
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RPM creation solve depencies
I have created a rpm on Centos 7 it needs rh-python36 and centos-release-scl-rh is required to be installed in advance, so the current sequence is :
sudo yum install -y centos-release-scl-rh
sudo yum ...
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How can I run rpm and yum on RHEL?
I'm trying to do some debugging on my remote server via SSH. I need to install a few packages before I begin. The provider I'm using has Red Hat Linux on their servers.
The problem I'm having is that ...
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`rpm -q` and `yum` break after `rpm --rebuild`
In order to repair the RPM database, I ran rpm --rebuild. Afterward, I cannot find any package using rpm -qa, and yum does not work，as the logs below show.
[root@local03 ~]# yum
Traceback (most ...
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How to remove an exact duplicate in an RPM db (same architecture)
On one system I have two exact same entries in the RPM DB:
# rpm -qa | fgrep gvfs-fuse
gvfs-fuse-1.40.0-1.1.x86_64
gvfs-fuse-1.40.0-1.1.x86_64
There is apparently nothing that will help:
# rpm -e --...
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Unable to install any rpm package in AIX after removing some packages
We have an AIX 6.1 server which was working; it does not have most of the freeware packages:
root@srv/ins:rpm -qa
cdrecord-1.9-7
mkisofs-1.13-4
vnc-3.3.3r2-6
openssl-0.9.7l-2
unzip-5.51-1
bash-4.2-3
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How to recusively download RPMs and dependencies as a user
I'm testing a process that will need to be run by different users on different Linux servers. The servers will have yum and yum-utils installed. There is no root access and faking it (chroot/container)...
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Building custom RPM with boolean BuildsRequires and Requires
I'm trying to use boolean logic for my dependencies (https://rpm.org/user_doc/boolean_dependencies.html) in a custom spec file, but I'm running into trouble.
.spec snippet
BuildRequires: libxml2-...
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unexpected behavior of 'rpm --setperms sudo'
rpm --setperms sudo on a fedora 29 fresh installation sets /usr/bin/sudo's permissions to 0777; i confirmed it by reinstalling sudo using dnf, which will correctly set the permissions to 4111 and then ...
