Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 6 years ago. Improve this question The world of package managers is a wonderful one. If one package isn’t available in your Linux distributions package manager chances are that … Read more
Basically, here’s the gist of my issue: I’ve compiled my own version of MySQL with some Sphinx magic sprinkled in it. However, because its compiled from source and not installed from any package management system, anything that requires mysql-common still wants to the package manager to install it. For dpkg the solution to this problem … Read more
I want to install a WMI client on to a ubuntu server to manage some windows web servers. The only WMI client I’ve found is compatible with Intrepid 8.10, whereas my server is currently running Karmic 9.10. So, can I install the old package on Karmic? http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=wmi-client Answer You could try to rebuild the package … Read more
I have tried googling, and so far have found nothing. Is there a way to select all packages from the install DVD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux when doing an installation? With the GUI installer, I know it is possible to customize each group selected. Is it also possible in the text-mode installer? Answer Yes. … Read more
I need to alter a bunch of in-house developed .debs, mainly to remove some dependencies that are common to all those packages. So, my question is do I need to take the source for all of them, and recompile ? Or is there any another way to modify them ( opposed to making a package … Read more
I am trying to install dnsproxy on a Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit server but this is failing. root@some:/etc/apache2/mods-enabled# aptitude install dnsproxy Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states… Done The following NEW packages will be installed: dnsproxy libevent-1.4-2{a} 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, … Read more
Usually when I install a common package like PostgreSQL or MySQL or Python etc using Yum it installs the files held within those packages into locations specific to CentOS itself. It may also install scripts specific to CentOS only. These paths may not be the same as the defaults found within the source distributions found … Read more
I installed gcc 4 on Solaris 11 using pkg-get gcc4g++ near the end of the installation process it showed a warning that some script didn’t run succesfully (which I didn’t write down unfortunately). Now some include files are missing (eg. math_iso.h). I would like to try to re-install the package, but I haven’t found a … Read more
I’m trying to use httrack website copier but the program is running and reporting “no-ssl” (ie: it does not have the capability to copy secure sites). From looking over this thread, it seems that the problem is either when I make & configure the program, or when I run the program, it is not finding … Read more
I am trying to wrap up one of our projects in Ubuntu/CentOS packages. The project is a typical web framework which requires to deploy a tomcat war file, create some directories and run a mysql script that creates a new user + database with some tables, etc. Now I am not sure how to package … Read more
