Questions tagged [rpm]
RPM is a package management system intended primarily for Linux distributions.
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What is the mock template for centos-7?
I see on some sites they mention a centos-7 template that ships with mock,
/etc/mock/centos-7-aarch64.cfg
/etc/mock/centos-7-armhfp.cfg
/etc/mock/centos-7-i386.cfg
/etc/mock/centos-7-ppc64.cfg
/etc/...
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How can I find where an RPM macro is defined or what it expands to?
Inside of an RPM I have
%{__install} %{SOURCE2} %{buildroot}
I believe that %{__install} is a macro. Where do I find where it is defined? What is the definition? Was it provided by the system or ...
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Centos/RHEL: Determine minimal set of packages to install given dependencies?
Suppose I have a list of packages I want to install:
# yum install foo bar baz quux
but suppose that baz is a dependency of foo, and quux is a dependency of baz.
So, really, all I actually needed ...
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Where can I find the Copyright information of .rpm file?
I can see the licence information about rpm file by executing below:
rpm -qip {rpmfilename}.rpm
but there is no information about copyright holder.
Is there any easy way to know who has the ...
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Centos 7 cannot upgrade my Kernel
I follow the hint
https://linuxhint.com/upgrade-kernel-centos-7/
and type this command at the kernel :
rpm --import https://www.elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org
It gives the following error :...
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redefine optflags or pcre-config
I have a script that creates a spec file with the line:
%define WITH_CC_OPT $(echo %{optflags} $(pcre-config --cflags))
I want to change the definition of the WITH_CC_OPT by changing %{optflags} ...
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Tranaction Check Error while runnig mock
I'm getting the following error while try to run
mock -r name --rebuild name.src.rpm
Transaction Check Error: file /etc/rpm/macros.ghc-srpm conflicts
between attempted installs of redhat-...
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Installing competing library versions
On a CentOS 7 system, I have software installed that links to the libpqxx package from EPEL, which is version 4. I am trying to install software which links to the libpqxx package from the PostgreSQL ...
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Yum dependency being provided by incorrect version
Can someone explain what's going on here?
$ yum deplist institutional_sync-11.3.0-snap20191023.1247.202a207
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, changelog, security
Finding dependencies:
package: ...
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debconf-get-selections equivalent on CentOS
I work at a place where all of our servers are Debian. Now, one of our customers have their own external server running CentOS 7.
I've gotten the task to put all of our maintenance, update, ...
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How can you specify ./configure args with rpmbuild?
I'm trying to build an rpm with nginx, and the nginx rtmp module.
I got my nginx source tar.gz, and my rtmp tar.gz, and placed them in the SOURCES dir.
I then made this spec file:
Name: nginx
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tuxad-php repo problem
I try to update PHP with the tuxad-php repo as I need TLS 1.2 support which centos 5 doesn't offer. Upgrading the linux version is not currently feasible.
I run into a dependency problem with php-api,...
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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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einpoklum - reinstate Monica
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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?
