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Where do I get default ubuntu 12.04 php5-fpm php.ini default?
I was messing with config file, and forgot to make backup before doing changes... I'd like to see what changes I've accumulated in comparison with defaults.
How do I get default php.ini from ubuntu ...
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yaourt asking “please run yaourt as a non-privileged user”
This is a newbie question: why does yaourt in Arch Linux always warn you to "please run yaourt as a non-privileged user"? I am running the following:
$ sudo yaourt <package-name>
... to ...
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How do I go about getting some hosting / server space?
I don't know a lot about hosting, I have mucked around with cpanel before and I'm fairly confident I wouldn't have any problems with domain registration, web hosting etc. But I'm more interested in ...
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How do I install git 1.8.3 on mac OSX?
I want to use the new git submodule deinit command added with 1.8.3.
Can someone give me step-by-step instructions on how to install and use the development version of git on mac OSX 10.7.5? The ...
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pkg-config doesn't find package file when folder is listed in PKG_CONFIG_PATH
So here is my PKG_CONFIG_PATH contents:
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig
and here is the output of locate lv2.pc (lv2 is the library I'm trying to link with)
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Errors when updating package list with apt-get on (K)ubuntu
I get some errors when trying to update the package list with sudo apt-get update command, specifically the error messages are as follows:
W: GPG error: http://dl.google.com stable Release: The ...
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How to retrieve a list of installed packages on (K)ubuntu sorted by category
I'm using Kubuntu.
I'd like to get a list of installed packages on my system, and in particular to have them sorted by category, i.e. as seen in Muon Package Manager, in the category filter tab. For a ...
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Why can't I uninstall pacman package with -Rs settings?
I've been trying several desktop environments and window managers, and I think for now I'm gonna stick with E17.
However, I can't seem to uninstall Xfce 4 which I installed earlier when ...
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Why does pacman/packer always fail 3 times to connect, and makes it the fourth?
I think this will explain better:
:: Retrieving packages ...
error: failed retrieving file 'gpm-1.20.7-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.us.leaseweb.net : Resolving timed out after 10000 milliseconds
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Linux, Debian, Wheezy, Aptitude/DPKG consistency check
In a foolhardy and stupid attempt to solve space issues on my desktop machine, I on purpose deleted Spotify from /opt before realizing that I could remove it using the package manager. After deleting ...
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Re-install php incl. dependencies on Debian?
I have got a major problem with apt-get and php5 modules, which results into web-application specific errors. I think a Debian upgrade (6.0.7) here went wild.
I would like to downgrad php5... ...
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How to implement LAN traffic management on a computer when there are more than one NIC installed?
I have a motherboard with six NIC and the Windows Home Server installed. Right now I have it linked on only one LAN port to a switch with 3 other computers. Is it okay to connect those unconnected ...
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what/where is the default yum conf and server
I have 2 new redhat hosts (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.9).
Lets call them A and B. They both run on 2 different networks.
I try to run the 'yum -update' command on both hosts.
Works ...
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How can I fix the error “The value 'stable' is invalid for APT::Default-Release”?
After an upgrade from Debian Squeeze (stable) to Wheezy (testing), Synaptic fails with the following error:
E: The value 'stable' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not ...
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What's the rpm/yum equivalent of `aptitude why`?
On .deb managed systems one can use
$ aptitude why <package>
to find out what installed package required the installation of <package>
for example:
$ aptitude why python
i xdiagnose ...
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Make pacman does not reinstall when already installed
How to make pacman (archlinux's package manager) to not reinstall when the package already installed
pacman -S packagename # install and reinstall if exists
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Debian - package is installed already but apt says “depends: x but it is not going to be installed”
I don't have a lot of experience with debian. I am troubleshooting a friend's debian squeeze setup who probably pasted both squeeze and wheezy sources in his sources.list. Since then I have corrected ...
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sources.list LMDE review
I want to create a sources.list which uses one fast mirror.
So I run netselect-apt. There comes in my first question: Does netselect-apt use ping or traffic-speed?
I trust that result and for example ...
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How to upgrade an installed package under Ubuntu 12.04
Based on https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/apt-get.html
The way to upgrade packages is to:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
However, I simply just want to upgrade one software for ...
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SublimeText2: Packages does not show up on Package Control: Install
When I was installing some packages, I found that my Package Control: Install Packages although comes up after pressing enter nothing happens.
Does anyone else had this issue? I do not know after ...
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Get Solaris/Linux package (from package repo) and put on server manually
First I'm not Solaris/Linux guy, pure Windows.
My problem:
I need to get ffmpeg executables on hosting Solaris servers. The first and obvious way it to take source code and compile it there. But ...
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Linux server broken packages
So, I'm trying to install the PHP5 cURL package on a Ubuntu Lucid 10.04.3 server. My concern is that there are broken packages on this server and if I install this package with the broken packages ...
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How to purge a package AND its installed dependencies?
I only want to delete the dependencies if they are not required by any package installed since then.
For example, when I installed subversion, it also installed some libs:
libapr1:amd64
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Extremely slow pypi package retrieval with i.e. pip
Finding python packages using tools such as pip or easy_install takes very long, up to ten minutes, on my local desktop running Ubuntu 12.10. The same procedures are lightning fast on my cloud ...
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Debian set google-chrome as gnome-www-browser
I've recently set up Debian 6.0.6 and want to install google-chrome as the default web browser.
The problem is that I can't remove others browsers (Iceweasel particularly) because there is a ...
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Peppermint Theme missing in LMDE since update
I have a problem on a system with Linux Mint Debian Edition. It was freshly installed a few days ago an "Peppermint" was chosen as theme for MATE. Today I updated the system and the theme isn't ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 error message E: dpkg was interrupted
In Ubuntu 12.04 I got an error message saying:
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
After I ran that command, nothing happened and the ...
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Debian download package and dependencies for different architecture
I have a clean i386 install of Debian on my laptop which I need to install ndiswrapper to get the internet on it working.
I have a amd64 Debian install on my other laptop with working internet.
How ...
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Can I list installed packages which were directly requested with yum?
I want a list of installed packages requested by the user, excluding those installed as dependencies. This is on a CentOS 5 machine and the packages were installed using yum. I am attempting to ...
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Homebrew complains about a non-Homebrew “pkg-config” in my PATH
I've just installed Homebrew onto my machine, after which I ran brew doctor which threw up two warnings.
I didn't appear to have the command line tools for Xcode installed, which I have now. The ...
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Why apt-get cannot install software?
Each time I execute apt-get install (e.g. gzip) I get the problems of kind:
Depends: <some_package> but is not going to be installed
Depends: <some_package> but is not installable
For ...
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How to create .repo file?
I am trying to create my RPM repository, besides the posts on SuperUser I have followed the usage document of createRepo, which was pretty straight forward.
Although, regarding the .repo file I ...
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Homebrew installation of git won't take precedence over system version (in /usr/bin/)
OS X (or Xcode) comes bundled with git 1.7.something, but after brew install git (1.8.0), which git keeps returning the old /usr/bin/git.
This is what I get when I echo $PATH right now:
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Do best-practices say to restrict the usage of /var to sudoers?
I wrote a package, and would like to use /var to persist some data. The data I'm storing would perhaps even be thought of as an addition for /var/db.
The pattern I observe is that files in /var/db, ...
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Cannot resolve dependencies while installing a package
When I try to install mysql-devel package by doing
/usr/bin/yum install -y --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=base mysql-devel
It fails with the following errors.
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--> Finished Dependency ...
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How can I visit a package's homepage via the pip command?
Being new to both Python and particularly the pip package manager, I'm wondering if pip has an internal command for quickly opening a package's home page on the web.
If not possible by default, is ...
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Why did I fail to install packages when using debian?
There is lots of messed up dependency. How can I resolve this problem?
It produces the following output:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, ...
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Want to install FlightGear but 'libapr1' dependency cannot be satisfied
When I want to install the flightgear:amd64 package, it requests to install the simgear2.8.0:amd64 package onto my Linux Mint 13 KDE 64-bit system. But I cannot install simgear2.8.0:amd64 because I ...
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Install mosh on vyatta
I'd like to install mosh on a vyatta machine.
Unfortunately vyatta does not have it pre-packaged. It does not even have gcc installed and I don't know if the required dependencies are available.
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Is it possible to determine how a package was installed on debian?
Is there a way to find out how a package was installed on Debian?
I.e. see if it was manually installed or which package pulled it as a dependency.
This information should be available somewhere ...
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How to update to latest version of SVN server?
I currently have SVN server installed on my Linux Ubuntu machine, version 1.6.12.
I see that the latest version is 1.8.x and would like to update my installation to it, so I run:
sudo apt-get update
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libkeybinder error Arch linux
I am trying to install a package that depends on python-keybinder and hence on libkeybinder. When I run makepkg for libkeybinder, it starts and after sometime I get the following error:
checking for ...
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How to find which package certain command belongs to on CentOS?
For example I can easily find locate command belongs to mlocate.i386 package.
yum search locate
mlocate.i386 : An utility for finding files by name
[mirror@home /]$ rpm -qa | grep locate
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Wireless network not working Linux Mint
I have a home LAN that I am confident is working properly (I have a Windows 7 and an Ubuntu Desktop machine that both see the router and a working Internet connection).
I just installed Linux Mint ...
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Will apt keep updating a package from unstable if I install it from there?
I installed a package using -t unstable to get a newer version. unstable is pinned at 50, testing at 900. If testing catches up with the version that I installed, will apt still keep getting the newer ...
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Eclipse version in Debian package directories too old
Ian Murdock, the founder of Debian, has commented that package management is "the single biggest advancement Linux has brought to the industry". (Wikipedia)
But for some reason I'm forced to install ...
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downgrading packages in debian
I have Debian stable disribution installed on my computer. Once I installed some packages from testing but now it causes some troubles so I would like to downgrade them.
I've tried next commands:
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How could I pack my linux installation to installable DVD
I have spend more than 2 months configuring my openSUSE 12.1 linux as ultimate development environment with manual installs of many tools and packages. How could I pack this as my own distro on a DVD ...
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How do I remove configuration files for a program that's not installed?
I'm basically looking for an apt-get purge for programs that are already uninstalled.
(I'm running Debian squeeze and using aptitude for package management.)
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Which group memberships are necessary for simple users in Ubuntu 12.04?
I'm configuring Ubuntu 12.04 for my sister. I'd like to give her a system that she really can't screw up, but can still do normal things like install software.
I don't want to just add her user to ...
