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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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Where does yum save the rpm's it downloads?
Is there a temporary folder I can find the RPM's that yum downloads to install programs? During an installation yum shows the exact name of the RPM file but I don't know how to find it. How can I ...
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Can someone explain why LWP::Simple is satisfied by perl-libwww-perl?
Installing Munin on RHEL 6 from RPM available at, http://pkgs.repoforge.org/ most installs were ok but when installing munin-node got this:
rpm -Uvh munin-node-1.2.5-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm
warning: ...
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Install gcc 4.7 on CentOS
What would be the easiest way to install gcc 4.7 on a system with CentOS 6.2 ? The refault rpm package contains an older version of gcc.
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WD “My Book Studio” 2TB - rpm? [closed]
The rpm rating of this drive doesn't seem to be listed anywhere. Not on the box, not in the manual, not online, not even on Western Digital's website. I even called them but they were evasive, ...
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yum rpm repository lists a package version that doesn't exist in it
I'm trying to install the hadoop-pig package from the cdh3u1 repo on my centos 5.6, but it keeps looking for version 0.8.1+28.18-1 while the actual version in the repo is: ...
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How can Yum tell me the version of depencencies?
I've installed a package with Yum (Varnish 3.0.2). However, a feature I need has been removed so I need to roll back.
According to the documentation, the feature was removed in 3.0-Beta, so I wanted ...
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Fetch a variable value from the target server in RPM
I want to read a variable value from the target server in the %install script. When I try to package the script, it searches the file where I am packaging and fails to find it. Is there any option to ...
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How to know the version of RPM during installation
I have created a script for deployment using YUM and RPM. During the pre script, is it possible to know whats the version of the rpm I am deploying.
I want to create a backup file with the version ...
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How do I tell RPM which software version to use?
I'm trying to install the Subversion SWIG Python libraries so that I can use them with Trac.
The environment is RHEL5, and for some reason the RedHat repositories for yum are unavailable, so I had to ...
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Yum : searching for a package with binary name
Is there a way to search a package using the binary name.
for example I want to find rpm package for command "ls" then it should be coreutils-6.9-10.4.i586 for example.
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How to prevent the RPM from freezing?
I've tried to install several things using redhat's RPM, but every time I try it freezes when the progress bar arrives to "Processing Headers"
I've tried rebuilding the rpm's database
rpm ...
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How do I get yum to see updates to a local repo without cleaning cache?
I have set up a local yum repository which I use to install test builds. For the testing purposes, my packages are versioned by <svn version number>.<date>.<time> (e.g. ...
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Why does Puppet keep installing a package even if it is already installed?
I use the package install attribute to ensure that given package X is installed.
However, even though the package is installed, puppet tries to install it over again and of course exits with an ...
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rpm spec file with 'cat' problem
Im writing spec file in which i want to place script to run process from init.d directory. Here it is a part of SPEC file:
%prep
%{__cat} <<EOF > myapp.run
prog="IMG APP BACKEND"
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Upgrading software packages from CLI in Linux from some online repo
I am on CentOS and have tried the following:
[root@XMPP tigase]# rpm -Uvh MySQL-server-5.5.15-1.linux2.6.x86_64.rpm
error: open of MySQL-server-5.5.15-1.linux2.6.x86_64.rpm failed: No such file or ...
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My Book Essential 3.0 RPM
I just bought a WD My Book Essential 3.0 with 1TB and USB 3.0. The code for the product is WDBACW0010HBK.
How can I find out what RPM it has? There is no mention in the manual and the official site ...
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Looking for benchmark performance direct comparison between 10K rpm WD Velociraptor 150Gb and 300Gb capacities [closed]
Are these drives identical in performance? The only difference being capacity, i.e one is 150Gbyte the other 300Gbyte. i.e. twice the size?
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Amazon Linux AMI release 2010.11.1 corresponds to which RHEL version (4/5/6)?
I am using the default Amazon Linux AMI in an EC2 instance - Amazon Linux AMI release 2010.11.1. I can see that it's a Redhat based system, but after trying many tools (/etc/issues, uname -a, ...
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Install rpm packages using file globbing with errors
I found a rpm feature. If you rpm install * and one of the packages fails to install then none of the remaining packages will be installed.
Does anyone know how to use rpm to install packages with ...
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RPM Dependency failure
I've created an RPM which does not specify any dependencies. However on installation, it gives the error
error: Failed dependencies: etc/init.d is needed by
It doesn't allow me to force-install it ...
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RPM installation returning exit code 1
I'm working on an embedded system and have created a bunch of RPMs. The following problem is present in some of the RPMs.
When I install/upgrade version 2 of the RPM on top of version 1 or install ...
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%{upstream_source} error with rpmbuild
Here 's what I 'm getting. I can't understand what the problem is (not enough rpm experienced).
Installing MariaDB-5.2.7-101.el5.src.rpm
warning: InstallSourcePackage: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, ...
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How to keep Virtualbox from being uninstalled by kernel update in yum
I use fedora, and installed virtualbox-ose from rpmfusion. It seems that the virtualbox-ose is compiled against certain kernel versions. If I update kernel with yum update, virtualbox-ose will be ...
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Odd RPM behaviour, installed but not at the same time?
I'm having issues with Java on my RedHat virtual machine. So I went to Oracle's site to download the newest version of JRE and JDK. I got the RPM and did an rpm -i to install, but it tells me its ...
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How do I find what RPM package provides a system executable with Fedora?
Want package provides gnome-sound-recorder in Fedora?
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How to get list of dependencies of non-installed RPM package?
apt-cache show <package> shows also it's dependencies.
yum info <package> does not show dependencies, but it obviously know them.
How to ask yum for dependencies of specified package?
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Problems installing Subversion Perl
I'm trying to setup Bugzilla's VCS integration with Subversion.
I've installed the CollabNet Subversion client CollabNetSubversion-client-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm which installs its libs to ...
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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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How do I downgrade packages easily with Yum?
Apparently, Fedora's yum has the ability to downgrade. I find this useful because abhorrently they feel they need to break NetworkManager on a stable upgrade. In multiple ways.
How do I downgrade ...
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RPM thinks something is removed: can't remove, yet thinks something is installed: can't installed
When I attempt to install a package, rpm tells me that it's already installed. When I try to remove that same package, it tells me that it's not installed. Forcing installation fails (presumably ...
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What are the advantages of a group package in yum over an rpm that depends on everything else?
On our local repository, we'd like to create a "product" install that includes all of our packages. The two ways that seem possible to do this is do create a "blank" package called 'product' that ...
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Installing VirtualBox gives kernel, grub and graphics card errors
I just tried booting into a virtual os and I got some error saying that I needed to check the kernel driver for vbox or whatever. I tried doing a ps -ef | grep vbox and also searched for the file. I ...
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Uninstall / remove RPM
I've installed CentOS 5 on an old IBM ThinkPad. Everything went fine until I had to make the wireless network connection work.
After searching Google I realise that I need to install RPM. ...
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rpm + rpm -ba Build the source
when I perfrom rpm -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/my_spec.spec
as described here
the output not include the Wrote: /root/rpmbuild/SRPMS/test.sh-6.2-2.rpm
please advice why?
remark under ...
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How do I find out a list of RPMs installed using “--force” option?
I'm just wondering if there is an easy way I can generate a list of RPM packages which have been forcefully installed on the system (got a couple of servers transitioned).
All servers are RedHat-5 if ...
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Error while installing rpm-build Setting up Install Process
I am doing package using rpm but I'm getting the following error:
:~# yum install rpm-build
Setting up Install Process
No package rpm-build available.
Nothing to do
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RPM + How to get view of script in rpm pkg
Using rpm -qlp I can get the content of an RPM package. How can I view the below scripts from the RPM package? (using say, cat, more or vi)
I want to print the following scripts (on my Linux machine) ...
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Problem with running open office from the command line
Yesterday I installed OpenOffice on my Linux server. But when I go to run it through the command line, it says command cannot be found. I've also tried other things like OOWriter, etc. Has anyone had ...
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How can I pack 15 different scripts into a single RPM?
I have more then 15 different scripts - bash, perl etc ( I run the scripts on Red Hat Linux)
I want to pack all scripts by RPM. How to do that?
For example I want to do
rpm -Uvh all_scripts_pack
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How to downgrade and remove rpms in the same command?
I have a problem where in order to satisfy RPM dependencies, I need to remove packages and downgrade them in the same command.
Imagine the following situation
Before
A v2.0 depends on B,C
B v2.0 ...
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What can I do about “cpio: read error while unpacking archive”?
I get the following error when I attempt to install a .rpm file:
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/local/jive/opt/openoffice.org/basis3.2/program/libicudata.so.40;4d805c75: cpio: ...
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server software
A professor at the university asked me if I could install some software for him on his laptop that runs SLES 11. I'm not familiar with SUSE (I typically work with debian based machines) so I'm having ...
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How can I set up Retrospect on Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit?
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Retrospect is a backup system that my organization uses, but I can not find support for my Ubuntu 10.04 64bit desktop.
What I have tried (but did not work)
download the Redhat version and ...
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Output from rpm -qa, how to extract only the name of the package?
The output format from the command rpm -qa looks like the following:
abrt-1.1.14-1.fc14.x86_64
abrt-addon-ccpp-1.1.14-1.fc14.x86_64
abrt-addon-kerneloops-1.1.14-1.fc14.x86_64
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How can I install an RPM without being root?
How can I install an RPM on a machine where I don't have root permissions? I want to install a package for my use only in a personal work directory. I'm running SuSe SLES10.
Please don't flame me ...
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How come useradd isn't working?
I'm trying to work out the kinks for this RPM I'm trying to create. Basically, I'm trying to make it so that if mark does not exist on the system, I want to create a mark user account. I've got this ...
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View Configuration File Changes With RPM or Yum
How do I view the changes made to package configuration files (installed using rpm/yum)?
I created a FreeRadius server that does MAC Authentication, and I just want to get the lines that I have ...
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Fedora 12 update dependency problems with firefox
I'm trying to update my system which is usually a fairly routine thing. However, today, I ran update, it installed everything, and thunderbird segfaulted on launch. Bemused, I downgraded it. It ...
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rpm: what does the release number in `gpg-pubkey-<verstion>-<release>` stands for?
GnuPG public keys that are imported into the RPM keyring with:
rpm --import PUBKEY_FILE
can be queried with
rpm -q gpg-pubkey-<key-id>
For example the CentOS4 key:
pub 1024D/443E1821 ...
