Questions tagged [rpm]
RPM is a package management system intended primarily for Linux distributions.
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No module like YUM
When I was working, I got an error "no module like yum". I looked at Red Hat's website, but found nothing useful yet.
I also ran
# rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs python-<version>...
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How can I reliably modify build configs and add compiler flags in C/C++ RPM files?
I need to change the build configuration of a large number of rpm files for testing purposes. I'm only speaking of C/C++ code here. I'm not necessarily looking to do automation, but I could use a hand ...
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Find the service from an installed package (rpm)
I'm trying to link a list of installed packages to the services they have running on a system (init.d).
I'm using ansible for this, but of course a bash hint is also usable.
For example if upon ...
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Error while building OBS from source code | CentOS 8
I've a problem with OBS source code, because it isn't detecting ffmpeg who's installed on my computer.
[mlodybukk@localhost build]$ cmake -DUNIX_STRUCTURE=0 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="${HOME}/obs-...
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Is there a centralized location for the sources or homepages of RPM packages in CentOS?
I'm trying to find a source or homepage for the rpm packages in CentOS that have copyleft licensing, like GPL, and there doesn't seem to be a centralized way to find them other than exhaustive ...
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Wrong packages version in RPM database
While doing an update of some SAS packages on redhat 7, it failed and i restore the directory where it was supposed to be installed (/opt/sas).
However i had no backup of /var/lib/ and hence I now ...
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How are Sources mapped to commands in a RPM specfile? [closed]
In an RPM specfile, sometimes I will see:
Source0: /some/path/or/url/file.tar.xz
Source1: /another/path/or/url/file2.tar.gz
Source2: /some/path/library.so
Source4: /other/path/icon.ico
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Sometimes ...
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How to install RPM files in Tails OS
I would like to use Skype on Tails 4.7 running on a live USB flash drive. I downloaded the RPM file and looked up the installation procedure, but none of rpm, yum, and dnf works ("command not ...
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How does pkg-config work in RPM specfiles?
In some RPM specfiles, I see lines like:
BuildRequires: pkgconfig(ice)
BuildRequires: pkgconfig(libnotify)
BuildRequires: pkgconfig(libssl)
...
I am not very familiar with pkgconfig but I understand ...
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Cannot update/install RPM using yum on Red Hat Enterprise 7 - “Couldn't open file /root/rpms/repodata/repomd.xml”
I have an RHEL OS running as a VM that my team wants to update two specific RPMS (the agent/program is already installed but is an outdated version, so we want to update).
I was having issues ...
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Circular dependencies when installing glibc
I am trying to install python3-pygrib on CentOS 7. First I needed to install eccodes, libpng and pyproj. Before those libraries, I need to install glibc231. I ran into circular dependencies trying to ...
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What are some effective ways to build & run an SRPM without installing it?
I am on Fedora 31 and I do software development. I need to work with code in many source RPM packages for relatively short periods of time. For this reason, I'd like to simply build the package, but ...
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How do I run a full system upgrade using old RPM?
I had an old NAS server which is running Fedora release 12 (yes). The last system update was in 2012. Consequently, all packages are extremely outdated, and many core commands aren't even available (...
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Use copr with rpmfusion-nonfree packages
I'm building a custom ffmpeg with fdk-aac-devel. This dependency is located in rpmfusing-nonfree. So copr build fails because it cannot find this package. Is there a way for me to install this ...
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Missing dependencies to install net-snmp
This is set up on CentOS 7
I was trying to install net-snmp via rpm (our yum wont work at all). so I gathered the following rpm packages: (all from the centos updates repository)
net-snmp
net-snmp-...
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Centos 5 - Installing puppet agent - missing ruby and a couple of dependencies
I know centos is no longer supported but I had to test something on Centos 5.11. I could not find any repo for rubygems. Any suggestion on how to get it working?
I used this RPM to install puppet ...
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how to fix “wifi adapter not found” in fedora and "curl error(6) couldn't resolve host: mirrors.fedoraproject.org” when i try to run rpm command?
I installed fedora 32 on my MacBook air, but couldn't start the wifi as it shows no wifi adapter found. I tried using the rpm commands they are not working it shows "curl error (6) couldn't resolve ...
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How is a source RPM different from unpacking an RPM with rpm2cpio and cpio?
I am attempting to understand the use of a .srpm aka "source rpm" Red Hat Package Manager package.
From what I understand so far, a .srpm is different from a standard .rpm in that it provides the ...
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CentOS 8: Modular dependency problems
Fresh install of CentOS 8 and I'm getting the following error when doing pretty much any dnf command. For example on yum remove I get:
# yum remove
Modular dependency problems:
Problem 1: ...
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java devel installation by yum
we are installing the rpm - java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel-1.8.0.171-8.b10.el7_5.x86_64.rpm
yum localinstall java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel-1.8.0.171-8.b10.el7_5.x86_64.rpm
Loaded plugins: langpacks
Examining ...
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rhel 7.2 getting Transaction check error: when installing ansible
we have rhel server version 7.2
we intend to install the latest ansible version , with all others rpm's ( because rpm dependencies )
rpm - ansible-2.9.7-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm
yum localinstall -y *
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Run a command before downloading or installing a package with RPM/DNF
With apt-get, I can use Pre- or Post-Invoke hooks
Pre-Invoke, Post-Invoke
This is a list of shell commands to run before/after invoking dpkg(1). Like options this must be specified in list ...
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how to remove docker with yum or any other approach
today we installed docker with the following rpm's ( 32 rpm's ) , on rhel 7.2
rpm -qa --last|more
libselinux-devel-2.5-15.el7.x86_64 Sun 10 May 2020 07:03:31 AM UTC
libselinux-2.5-15.el7....
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yumdownloader not installed the latest rpm version
we installed the epel repo , in order to download some rpm for docker on rhel 7.x
reference - https://www.centlinux.com/2019/02/install-docker-ce-on-offline-centos-7-machine.html
yum repolist | ...
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subscription-manager + how to know which are the rpms that installed from the redhat repo
after we subscribed to rhedhat repo by subscription-manager
and the we use yum install , in order to install some pkgs
in case of yum is needed some rpm's from the network , then yum will download ...
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how to installed the latest docker version without dependencies issues
We prepare the following in order to install docker on rhel 7.5 version
( from the list https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/7/x86_64/stable/Packages/ ) , and only the latest
curl https://...
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Local repository on CentOS 8.1, yum is missing single packages
I'm trying to setup a local offline repository of a few packages. For most packages this seems to be working, but for a few, there is a problem:
# cd /testrepo
# createrepo .
# ls -l
total 3360
-rw-r-...
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CentOS 7 - Okay to use yum and dnf together?
Another few colleagues and I are responsible for managing a CentOS 7 server. However a few of us prefer dnf as the package manager, while the rest prefer yum, mostly due to being more familiar with it....
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How are the pkgrel, extraver, snapinfo and minorbump fields of RPM's Release tag used?
The documentation for creating RPM packages in Fedora Linux states that
There are potentially four fields which comprise the structured
Release: tag:
package release number (<pkgrel&...
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Inspect (rpm -qp) multiple RPM files, each bundled in different TAR files
I was wondering the possible best time case solutions to extract each RPM files from a list of TAR bundle and get the package information from those files.
So, I have a list of tar bundles in a ...
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How do you configure rpm-build on fedora 31 to use xz and NOT zstd?
I cannot use zstd for rpm-build compression because I need to install the rpm that i build on a centos 8 machine, which does not have zstd supported, and I'm unable to install anything new on that ...
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Install a RPM with all dependencies locally
I am trying to install docker-ce on centos 7 using rpm downloaded from the official site, downloaded the dependencies using yum --downloadonly in a directory and while trying to install the docker-ce ...
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Is there a way to bump the non-right most part of the version in RPM?
With rpmdev-bumpspec I can do
-r, --rightmost
bump trailing .<DIGIT> component if found, append .1 if not; no-op if -s is specified
-s STRING, --string=STRING
bump trailing ....
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How to find out what all standalone packages are installed?
I am trying to find the version of tomcat which was installed from a tar file not through yum, So how do we find out that.
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Is there a way to differentiate between System packages and Manually installed packages in Linux?
I am trying to write a script where I can tell whether the package is a pre-installed or it was installed by user.
And also can we have way to get to know that following are the dependencies of the ...
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Is there a way to specify a dependency where anyone of a group can satisfy the demand?
Let's say I'm packaging an RPM which requires one of the following,
Foo
Bar
Baz
Does RPM support the functionality to put that into a spec file?
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RPM Spec file %setup macro when you don't know the root name?
How do I use the %setup macro if I don't know the root name of the archive. For example, in my case I have archive.tar.gz that extracts to
myproject-<githsha>/
Each time I run that I may get a ...
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Going from a binary RPM to an OBS signed rpm?
I have a RPM that I'm currently building with FPM,
fpm --verbose \
-s dir \
-t rpm \
--directories /opt/myprod
--name myprod
--rpm-summary "My Prod"
--version $(git describe --abbrev=0 --...
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rpm -V does not detect all the missing files of a package
I am running CentOS 7. I removed all files of emacs utility under folder /usr/libexec/emacs/24.3/
When I issue command: rpm -V it returns nothing, like no files from the package are missing. Even when ...
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How does rpm determine if a package is an update?
Maybe this question is a bit weirded but I am struggling here.
By what criteria does rpm determine that a packet is an update or not?
The version and release is a string and so on it cannot be ...
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Is it normal to patch a Makefile for CentOS/RedHat to use lib64?
For distribution in CentOS 6, I'm reviewing a Makefile.patch that has,
- @echo 'libdir=$${prefix}/lib' >> tap.pc
+ @echo 'libdir=$${prefix}/lib64' >> tap.pc
My question is whether or ...
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How to package Debian's python3-ebooklib for Fedora [closed]
It seems this package for ebooks
https://packages.debian.org/buster/python3-ebooklib
is not (yet) packaged for Fedora.
How to package this into rpm (locally) or make it available in copr?
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rpm --addsign complains about “no secret key”
Running this command I get an error.
$ rpm --addsign ./kalzium-libs-19.12.3-1.fc33.i686.rpm
Enter pass phrase:
gpg: skipped "Evan Carroll": No secret key
gpg: signing failed: No secret key
Pass ...
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fpm: rpm: /usr/bin/rpmsign: No such file or directory
When I run fpm with --rpm-sign I get the following error,
rpm: /usr/bin/rpmsign: No such file or directory
I am using CentOS
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How to tell RPM to ignore non-installed packages upon rpm --erase?
I have a list of 30 or so "undesired" packages that I always erase/delete/remove on a newly installed RPM-based Linux system.
However, when I try the --erase command, e.g. (intentionally shortened)
#...
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Issues with RPM Package Creation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
I am trying to create an RPM package with some basic C and C++ example files before I try doing the package creation with software at my job that is running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, but having ...
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How can I make by pip installed python packages visible to rpm?
Problem: I have a local rpm package with lots of out of date python packages which I cannot install from the package manager. Thus, I installed them with pip. But rpm still complains that the ...
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How to execute my own command installed with rpm
I made a package using rpm in Fedora 29. These are the steps I followed:
# dnf install fedora-packager fedora-review
# usermod -a -G mock my_user Added my user to mock group
$ rpmdev-setuptree Then ...
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Download RPM and all dependencies on RHEL/CentOS 8
I have a scenario where I need to install an arbitrary list of RPM packages (usually around 5-10 packages) on a server with no network connection. Some packages are from EPEL and I want to avoid ...
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How to remove unneeded rpm packages in openSUSE?
Is there any alternatives for yum autoremove in rpm or zypper? (openSUSE doesnt have yum)
I need it because zypper installs recommended packages by default and often doesnt clean them automatically
