I have a Fedora system with Postgres version 8.3 and I want to downgrade to 8.2 because of a compatibility issue. I've been using yum for everything, but it's my first time with this package manager, and I don't know how to downgrade things. So how do I tell it to give me a specific version of a package? EDIT: I managed to get this wo...
Why do Linux distros have different package managers? I find this very strange because other software such as text editors, desktop environments and graphics software (Inkscape, Blender, GIMP) are shared among distributions. Why not have a common setup tool? ...
Somebody used libapt or libept to list packages and get informations about package in a debian-like system? Libapt is not well-documented at all, and i've found few examples and tutorials about libept. Can someone explain me best methods to get a list of every packages in the apt-system get informations about single packages (like na...
How do I upgrade PHP 5.1 to 5.2 from the SUSE 10.1 command line? Is there a package manager command to do it automatically? Actually I need JSON support to use the JavaScript-RTE and believe it's in PHP 5.2 only. ...
Although several thousand Emacs Lisp libraries exist GNU Emacs does not have an (internal) package manager. I guess that most users would agree that it is currently rather inconvenient to find, install and especially keep up-to-date Emacs Lisp libraries. Pages that make life a bit easier While we wait for a good package manager. Ema...
Can anyone suggest me a good and simple package management system on Linux? It's for my project study and I would prefer a package manager based on symbolic links. ...
Hello, everyone. What solution would you recommend for including files in a PHP project? There aren't manual calls of require/include functions - everything loads through autoload functions Package importing, when needed. Here is the package importing API: import('util.html.HTMLParser'); import('template.arras.*'); In this functi...
Hopefully short version of the question: If I'm on a machine that has a particular package installed, is there a yum command that will tell me which of it's configured repositories provided that package? (Or alternately, what repository would provide a yet-to-be-installed package.) Background in case some context is needed: We have a m...
Lately, I am trying to use Eclipse more often, but so far I have shied away from it because I found it so difficult to install new packages. Whenever I find and try to install a new package, the errors panel flashes a batch of configuration errors. It requires this or that package to install this one. And when I find that package, it tur...
I wonder about installing the latest version of Ruby on Ubuntu 9.04. Now I can run through the ./configure and make stuff fine, but what I wonder about: how to avoid conflicts with the packaging system? For example if some other package I install depends on Ruby, wouldn't the package manager install the (outdated) Ruby package and in the...
I am using texlive on ubuntu and having issues with some packages used as they are too old. Downloading them from CTAN manually and installing fixes them but this is time consuming. On windows we use Miktex and just update to all the latest packages. Is there a way to update the packages in texlive to the latest from CTAN without going...
I've written an application which as of yet is not open source and I'd like to distribute the executable across various linux distros. What's the best way to do this, I've looked a little bit at .rpm and .deb packaging but I can't find if that can be used for binaries or not. Ideally I'd like something like the PackageMaker on OS X or a ...
I'm going to be building a package manager and installer for my home network, and I'm unsure of the technologies i should use. I was thinking WPF for the interface and SQL for actually storing package data, as well as some sort of scripting for configurable installation. However, i don't know if I'm missing anything. In short, here are m...
For example, if ./configure or Make tells me I'm lacking libX11.so.6, and it's nowhere on my system, is there a tool or website into which I could type libX11.so.6 followed by a distribution/arch and get back libx11-6 libx11-6-debug [or whatever; asking README would probably return reams of entries] http://sysinf0.klabs....
got a new mac, need to have it setup ready for development. I heard great things about macports, should i use it? Is it really easier than manually download and compile? anyone has any problems using it? It is for typical ruby web development stuff. thanks ...
I understand the basic concepts, but are there any special algorithms used or maybe some blogs, papers or even books on the subject for someone building their own system? There seems to be very little information out there on actually implementing a system like this. ...
Does exist a package manager ala easy_install (Python) for Java? I'm looking for a solution usable from the command line and not from an Ide. ...
Hi everyone. Last year, in 2009 GSoC, I participated with an organization called Winlibre. The basic idea is having a project similar to Aptitude (or Apt-get) and a GUI like Synaptic but for Windows and just to hold (initially), only open source software. The project was just ok, we finished what we considered was a good starting point ...
Hey, does anyone know a package manager library for PHP (as e.g. apt or yum for linux distros) apart from PEAR? I'm working on a system which should include a package management system for module management. I managed to get a working solution using PEAR, but using the PEAR client for anything else than managing a PEAR installation is n...
I need to install the file 'html.sty', but don't know what package it's in. I think I need to install something called latex2e, but I don't know what package has that. ...