Questions tagged [packaging]
creating packages for software installation, such as .deb (Debian & derivatives), .rpm (RHEL/CentOS), .bff (AIX), Solaris pkg / pkgadd, etc. Do NOT use this tag for /software-installation or /package-management
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How do I get a package (or a package version) that is available on modern Fedora (or other RH-oids) for Amazon Linux 2023?
I'm regularly asked how to get some software on Amazon Linux 2023. Usually, I find the software to be already available on Fedora or modern Alma Linux. What do I do to get a software package that's ...
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Put zenity to flatpak /usr/bin folder
I try to create a flatpak application for Instant meshes in particular the manifest is the following:
id: org.flatpak.InstantMeshes
runtime: org.gnome.Platform
runtime-version: "44"
sdk: org....
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creating deb packages - is there an standard way to setup a suffix to the final deb packages?
I am learning how to create deb packages for a small project of mine. I have been able to create the deb package for the binary. So far so good. After the process is finished I can see this:
$ dpkg -c ...
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Best practices to install binaries inside nix-shell
I'm preparing a Nix derivation for tenv version manager.
Steps nix-build and nix-shell work fine, I can run tenv inside the nix-shell.
But the purpose of tenv is installing needed versions of binaries ...
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Difference between +MANIFEST and +COMPACT_MANIFEST in FreeBSD .pkg
I have recently created a FreeBSD .pkg file using a custom script.
A FreeBSD .pkg file is essentially a tar archive (optionally compressed) whose first two entries are manifest files, named +MANIFEST ...
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Where to install custom software packages on FreeBSD?
In Linux, according to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, /opt is the designated location for add-on application software packages. Thus, when developing my own software package, which is not a ...
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Check for non-interactive mode in Debian package maintainer scripts
If I'm writing a Debian package maintainer script (such as a pre-install script) for a package I create, how can I make the script determine if it is supposed to be running in non-interactive mode (e....
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Package maintainer pre-inst script `install` vs `upgrade`
According to the Debian package maintainer script documentation, the pre-install script can be called with either the install or the upgrade first argument:
The preinst script may be called in the ...
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Recommended and alternate dependencies in FreeBSD .pkg
A FreeBSD package typically specifies dependencies in its manifest as follows:
deps:
# python39, version 3.9 or higher
python39: {origin: lang/python39, version: 3.9}
# bind-tools, any version
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In Nix, how to make one derivation depend on another next to it?
I'm currently trying to package some closed-source software into Nix derivations. The app is distributed as a large pile of .deb files, and most of them contain libraries that the other parts of the ...
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Building debian package fails when destination is /usr/local/bin
I created a very simple C project and want to build a debian package from it.
Manually building the C project via the Makefile works as expected, it build the binary and can be installed in /usr/local/...
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Package installation failure and rollback options
I'm trying to understand how the creation of packages (rpm, deb, dpkg) work and what the architecture supports and doesn't.
Right now I struggle figuring out what happens when the installation or ...
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How do I best package a global configuration scheme?
I've been working on creating a Linux configuration scheme based on my own system configuration. It consists of
A configuration of the Interception program Dual Function Keys.
A custom keyboard ...
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port ubuntu kernel to rhel
I need to port ubuntu kernel with HWE to RHEL 9.
I have experience in fedora like systems but not in debian like systems.
I have Downloaded the kernel source using apt source but don't know what to do ...
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Is it possible to query versions of APT packages from not-my-current release without editing sources.list?
I've been learning about Linux package management recently (https://superuser.com/questions/393681/how-to-find-out-which-versions-of-a-package-can-i-install-on-apt, https://askubuntu.com/questions/...
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