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how to update svn package on RHEL 5.3?
I have 1.4.2 version of svn on my RHEL 5.3 box. I tried updating and I get the following message. What should I do ?
[foo@bar adminui]# svn --version
svn, version 1.4.2 (r22196)
compiled Sep 1 ...
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trouble installing packages in RHEL 5.3
I'm trying to install rabbitvcs, a subversion GUI tool. http://wiki.rabbitvcs.org/wiki/install/fedora.
[foo@bar conf]# yum install nautilus-python pysvn python-configobj python-devel dbus-python ...
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When you do “apt-get install” where are the .deb files stored?
I am trying to copy all of the packages I have installed on one Debian machine to another Debian machine without doing another apt-get install and downloading all of the package all over again.
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sending data in a file.txt by oracle store procedure using utl_file package [migrated]
I want to send data in a file.txt to a table in databse by oracle store procedure using utl_file package,
the file.txt contain:
QRIFR6M Index,BID,0.7875, aaa
QRIFR9M Index,BID,0.8625, bbb
QRIFR1Y ...
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Boost interprocess : How to get it via apt-get
How would I install Boost interprocess using a commandline package manager (apt-get)?
I tried apt-cache search and I only got some of the libraries of Boost. I tried libboost-dev and it did not have ...
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How to install experimental packages?
I am running debian squeeze and would like to install the wine experimental package of sid.
My Questions:
Where do I find the package?
Is there a way to include the package into the software ...
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How can I find a missing binary needed under Cygwin?
I am trying to put together a cygwin installation and find that the commandtput is needed, but I have no idea what package supplies it. How can I find the package I need?
please note: I found have ...
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How to install package in Synaptic (Debian) without internet
Package need to connect internet for downloading updates, but computer have not connection to internet. How I can install this package without connection internet?
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Install Firefox 5 on Ubuntu 11.10
I'm running Ubuntu 11.10, and, for web development, need to install Firefox 5 specifically. I know I can do it by hand from the Mozilla download. But I'd like a Ubuntu package. Is one available? ...
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Linux: Compare packages
Is there a simple way to compare all the current installed packages to the defaults (a fresh/clean installation)? So that I can see what packages I removed and which packages I manually installed?
I ...
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How do I control where my Debian package files are installed?
I'm trying to create a debian packge of my PHP application and to upload to my PPA.
I've been reading through the documentation but I am missing one important point:
How do I control in which ...
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Dism and removing a “package” from an Installed windows 7 64bit
I am exploring the possibility of removing "packages" from an Installed Windows 7 64bit. It is difficult to test deployment things when items were never installed to being with.
My understanding so ...
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Can't install gfortran on MacPorts
I'm having trouble trying to install gfortran on MacPorts.
When I type sudo port install gfortran I get this error:
Error: Port gfortran not found
I've tried gfortran45 and gfortran-mp-45 but those ...
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How to remove package which is dependency of gnome?
I wanna remove some applications that are auto-installed with gnome without removing the gnome package. Like epiphany instead of i use another browser.
Hide the icon it the menu isn't answer. Because ...
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How to do compile make make install as permanent install so that it does not give this error?
I was building from source to test one bug i was facing, and I did apt-get remove gstreamer once. Since then when I do gst-launch it throws following:
$ gst-launch --version
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Is it safe to install Ubuntu packages on Debian?
I've found online guides to adding Ubuntu PPAs and repositories to a Debian system. Is this a bad idea? If so, why?
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Why does OS X not have a default package manager? [closed]
Debian has APT. Red Hat has RPM. FreeBSD has Ports. NetBSD has pkgsrc. Mac OS X has MacPorts, Fink, and Homebrew, but those are all third-party package managers. Why does OS X not have a default ...
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Is it usually best to compile on the same machine you want to execute on?
(Note: I'm just using ffmpeg as an example, I have often wondered the same thing with other programs)
I have a build script for ffmpeg which compiles in support for a few non-standard features. Now ...
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What do I need to know before I *try* to install a Debian package on Fedora?
I found this color picker package, gpick, reviewed in a random blog. It uses GTK+ so I think I can use it on Fedora. Unfortunately there is not yum package in the normal repositories. There is an ...
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How do I install the Python module for Gnash?
My actual problem is: How do I install the Python module for Gnash?
But apart from that, what basic concept am I not understanding about installing packages on Linux?
I am used to installing ...
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how to create debuginfo package for Debian/Ubuntu?
I have created rpm packages for a software along with debuginfo.
For Ubuntu/Debian , I have only the software packaged as .deb but don't know how to create debuginfo for them. Please let me know how ...
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where do you find documentation for a Linux package without a man file?
Upgrading to F15 I've really taken a bite of the Linux apple. I'm customizing my desktop environment more than I did under F11. I've added encryption. And since my laptop is a several years old, its ...
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Where do packages get installed in debian systems?
I recently installed expect on my Ubuntu system and cannot find the example code that is supposed to come with it. I searched /usr/lib /usr/bin/lib /lib...no luck. I guess it's about time I learned ...
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Apt: find installed packages with given version number
I have just updated the kernel, meaning I have two sets of kernel files at the moment; and I'd like to use the command line to remove the old one.
I'm aware that I can use apt-show-versions to show ...
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Can't find the right packages for robot3d installation
I have a problem with the installation of robot3d. For ubunutu users it should be an easy task. But it doesn't work. On my system runs kubunutu 11.04.
The installation manual says that I should do ...
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Is there a way to make apt-cyg install manuals as well?
I've recently discovered apt-cyg and I'm loving it, however when I use it to install packages it does not install manuals. For example, on one of my machines I installed Perl when I installed Cygwin, ...
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Linux - using packages and compiling from source
I'm running a Debian web server. Though the packages are up-to-date, current vulnerability detection software (for instance Nessus) found several potential security risks that exist in the software ...
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Where can I find Firefox 5 .deb packages for Debian Wheezy (testing)?
I'd like to install Firefox 5 for Debian Wheezy (testing). Where can I find suitable .deb packages (unofficial is fine)?
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Adding a .deb file to my local mirror (Ubuntu)
I have a local Ubuntu repo mirror and a debian package. Since the package is restricted to use in my local setup, I just want to add it to my mirror rather than as a PPA on launchpad. Therefore, I ...
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Debian - I have removed some of my man page files
I deleted the /usr/share/man/man1 directory and wondered if there was a quick way to recover the manuals for the installed packages.
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Debian package - install to /usr/bin
I have been recently trying to package a small Python utility to put on my PPA and I've almost got it to work, but I'm having problems in making the package install the binary (a chmod +x Python ...
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Solaris Express: is there a command line version of Package Manager?
From documentation I can find (e.g. here http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19963-01/html/820-7799/new-user.html), package manager seems to be only available as a GUI tool (as opposed to a command ...
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Is it possible to speed up ./configure?
To compile a software package on a workstation with many CPU cores (say 12), the configuration stage often takes much longer than the actual compilation stage because ./configure does the tests one by ...
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What is a good strategy to maintain a set of binaries for Gentoo?
There is the world favourites file in which you can record your favourite packages, then there is the where you can record packages and compile whenever. Also there is http://paludis.pioto.org/.
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What package does org.core.databinding belong?
One of my applications requires org.eclipse.core.databinding but I can't seem to a package to install that satisfies this requirement. Does anyone know how to find and install this (if it requires ...
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How to configure the path while installing new plugin in linux?
Whenever I need to install something on Xentos, I found rpm or tar balls.
I want to know what is difference between two.
Also if I need to install something for php but I have installed on different ...
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Can't install openssl-devel because of unmet dependencies
I need to recompile php, in order to do that I needed openssl-devel but when I tried installing it, I got the following error:
# apt-get install openssl-devel
Reading Package Lists...
Building ...
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How to reinstall all .deb packages?
I have installed a number of packages with much pain. (I've a slow internet connection)
Now I want to reinstall Ubuntu (I use 10.10), but I don't want to download all the packages again.
I have ...
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How can I install GnuTLS in MinGW/MSYS?
I've installed MinGW and MSYS on my Windows XP machine and now I want to compile an application which requires the GnuTLS libraries.
How do I install that package?
I tried mingw-get install ...
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Installing zlib on Debian 6
I want to install zlib on Debian 6. For this, I'd use apt-get install ???. Now I don't know which package to use... the package "zlib" doesn't exist, and if I install "zlibc" (which sounds most ...
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Query dpkg for All Packages Installed/Removed from Default Image
Is there any way to query dpkg to tell what packages have been added/removed since the base install of a system?
I am running Debian 5.
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Ubuntu Package (.deb) Recommendations Installation Folder and Binary Name
I'm building a .deb file for an executable jar I've built for myself. I got a .deb built and installed my program to /usr/bin.
As I have a jar I now had an executable file called ...
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Deb packages stay with my username
When I run the command:
dpkg -b myprog
and
sudo dpkg -i myprog.deb
The file in /usr/bin and /usr/share/, etc. stay with my username as owner and creator of the file when all the other are ...
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How to upload a patched package to a Launchpad PPA
I have a patch for gnome-terminal and already managed to create a PPA on launchpad. I also downloaded the source using apt-get source gnome-terminal.
Which steps do I have to do to create a .changes ...
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Perl + failed to install Pogo module on RedHat 5.4
Please advice how to install the Person module "use Person;" on my linux machine
The perl script use - obj oriented
why I get the following:
[root@linux /tmp/Pogo-0.10]# perl Makefile.PL
Note ...
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Why do PSU boxes have handles on them? [closed]
What purpose does the plastic handle on power supply unit packaging serve? No other hardware's typical packaging seems to share this trait.
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How to list all commands in a package?
I just downloaded the w3c-markup-validator package from the universe repositories, but I can't seem to figure out how to run it. How can I list the new commands available?
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What is the site that lets you create an install package of your commonly used Windows applications? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
One-stop-shop installer for free Windows software?
What is the site that lets you create an install package of your commonly used Windows applications?
This is probably ...
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apt always tries to remove locally created package when installing dependancies
I've a locally compiled version of apache, which in the control file has
Replaces: apache2, apache2-mpm, httpd, httpd-cgi, apache2-mpm-prefork, apache2-utils, apache2-common, apache2.2-bin, ...
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How to abort a active download of a package in Ubuntu?
I was downloading a package from a terminal. Actually i want to install some package 'A'. But,by mistake installing some other package 'B'. So, i wanted to stop the download of that package 'B' and ...
