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How to build rpm package correctly?
I'm trying to install the new version from ganglia, which provides a tar.gz.
My procedure was uncompress the tar.gz file, enter in the folder and then makes rpmbuild -ba ganglia.spec, a warning ...
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How do I list all the files not owned by any package in a RPM-based system?
I want to look for files polluting an old CentOS system in my company. Is there an easy way to do that?
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How to completely uninstall a package (including all extra files that came with it) using yum (or rpm)?
When I do yum remove, it sometimes keeps a package's configuration files.
Is there anyway to remove a package completely, without keeping any file that belonged to the package?
I am running CentOS.
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Replace sqlite3.3.6-5 for sqlite3.7.0-1 on centos5
I want to update my sqlite3 version. I'm using centos5 (VPS requeriment), I have a new version downloaded (.rpm) and a previous installed (with the os) I have this error.
Well, I have noob on centos ...
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Wrong RPMforge Installed
I am running CentOS 6.2 and I installed RPMforge EL5 by mistake and I need to uninstall it and install RPMforge for EL6. How can I do that?
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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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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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Find where packages have been installed using rpm
CentOS 5.3
I have been installing some packages using
rpm -ivh package
However, I am just wondering what command I can use to find the path of where the packages are installed.
Many thanks,
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