package management

Hi there! Hope you're doing well! It has been for a while since that time the first package manager (like apt) was introduced to Linux. The list of packages available has grown since then a lot, and is becoming wider and wider. And for a particular host, the list of packages available for...

I'm currently running Mint 21 XFCE Edition, and while going through my updates list, I found both a signed and unsigned GRUB2 package. Being that I'm not familiar with unsigned packages, I completed a quick web search and found a thread on the Mint forums where someone was asking the same...

[chandu@centos-8 ~]$ sudo yum install --downloadonly --downloaddir=/home/chandu/dir1 httpd Config error: Parsing file "/etc/dnf/dnf.conf" failed: Parsing file '/etc/dnf/dnf.conf' failed: IniParser: Missing '=' at line 7 I am getting this error while trying to download only apache web server...

Hi Guys, I hope you can help me with this problem. I got the following notification in the package manager on Ubuntu 20.04 ------- Broken dependencies Package -> wine:i386 Installed Version -> 1:16.5-0ubuntu14 Description -> Microsoft Windows Compatibiliity Layer (meta-package)...

I was trying to instal Lutris. Since it i get the message, that Vulkan was missing i tried to install that to. After quick google i found out, that at least Nvidia driver 415.22 or newer was needed. Therefor i changed the driver from X.Org-X-Server - Driver Nouveau from...

Hi I'm following a tutorial on how to install sapi5 for linux. It is 6 month old with apt (probably Ubuntu) so I do not think it is outdated and I think it would be applicable to my distro since it is based on Ubuntu 18.04. https://gist.github.com/icaromagalha...e848c2a874d68a I added the ppa...

Hello, I want to know how does the RedHat/Centos and Ubuntu systems manage their packages updates? Does RedHat/Centos update only from their local repositories? (using yum update) Do we have to first, download the repositories from the internet, then yum update? Of source, it's possible to...