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Ubuntu unattended install : echo keypress to dialog
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server 64
My unattended-mode bootstrap.sh script contains:
apt-get upgrade -y
I know that during execution a primitive UI for GRUB installation will be shown which requires ...
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Huawei E1552 modem install [closed]
I'm new to linux and trying to install the 3g modem on a freshly installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server. Please assist ASAP
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How to install lsblk on CentOS 5
I'm more used to Debian so yum and CentOS is a little new to me.
Apparently, lsblk is not available on this system. I'm trying to install it via yum with no luck. I just get "nothing to do".
I ...
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1answer
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Ubuntu LTS : best practice for installing gems
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server
I'm relatively new to Unix/Ubuntu. I need to install the ruby gem libopenssl-ruby.
I know that Ubuntu LTS versions maintain lists of authorized package versions. apt-get ...
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issue installing fedora 19
I'm sorry I know this is not the place but I'm kinda dead in the water here. So I'm completely new to Linux an I wanted to install Fedora 19 with my Windows 7 (dual boot) but when I go through the ...
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Kickstarter-like solution for OpenBSD?
Are there any solutions for OpenBSD to just:
Insert the custom installer CD, press enter (like: "are you sure?" - message), then the installer automatically partitions the disk/installs OpenBSD, and ...
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1answer
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difference between install from Live CD and Live DVD
While I am trying to download the CentOS Live CD for the installation I have gone through something very new to me.Install from a Live DVD. up to now I have just gone through Live CD but whats the ...
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CentOS vs RedHat on hp DL 380 G5
hp lists downloads for:
» Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server (x86)
» Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server (x86-64)
» Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server (x86)
» Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server ...
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Fixing botched CentOS 5.9 Grub step
I installed CentOS 5.9 x64 on a fresh server with hardware RAID level 5.
In my ignorance, I told it not to install Grub. The next reboot, I got a blinking cursor. So, I went back to the installer ...
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1answer
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Does CentOS 5.9 need Grub to run on hardware RAID?
I'm doing a fresh install of CentOS 5.9 x64 on a server with 8 disks in RAID5. At some point during the install, it gave me the option of configuring Grub, or not bothering. I chose not to bother, ...
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Install Kali Linux on RAID0 (as dual boot Windows 7 & Kali)
I’m currently trying to install kali linux on my laptop as described here:
http://em3rgency.com/dual-boot-kali-windows-7/.
The problem is I’ve a laptop (MSI GT70) with a Raid 0 (2x 500Gb) and Windows ...
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PECL memcached installation gets error
I installed Zend Server 6 (debian).
Also installed several packages:
apt-get install gcc
apt-get install g++
apt-get install libncurses5-dev
apt-get install zlib1g
apt-get install zlib1g-dev
...
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How to install CLang using precompiled binaries?
How do I install CLang on Ubuntu, using precompiled binaries of CLang that I downloaded?
Here's how I downloaded CLang: "LLVM Download Page" -> "Download LLVM 3.2" -> "Clang Binaries for ...
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3answers
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Windows 7 to Linux: install without CD/DVD or USB drive
Update Sorry, Question has multiple parts see below for details:
I have been using Windows for many years and only used Linux from the command line, but want to shift after realizing Windows is ...
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1answer
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How to build a live Debian CD/USB in Windows, bootable in EFI mode?
I tried to install the latest stable Debian release (Debian 7.0 "Wheezy") using the Debian Multi-arch netinstall (AMD64) "debian-7.0.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso" on my laptop. My laptop has a SecureCore ...
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1answer
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Oracle 11gR2 grid slient installation: error for privateinterconnects
I am installing Oracle grid 11gR2 using silent install with response file. I am getting error after "Collecting interface information for node 1" in logs.
I have a feeling that this could be due to ...
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emacs elpa load packages
I am using emacs24, and I started using elpa to download the packages to ~/.emacs.d/elpa folder.
How can I load these packages?
For instance, I have tried (see below) for rainbow-delimiter but it ...
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How do I install Red Hat Linux 9.0 Shrike from a USB drive?
I have a desktop PC which does not have a CD drive and does not have access to the Internet or other networks.
I want to install Red Hat Linux 9.0 "Shrike" on it using a 8GB USB flash drive.
I have ...
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Recompile a binary installation? (problems installing ejabberd XMPP server)
This is either a basic unix problem or one specific to ejabberd - I don't know enough to know which it is.
So I've installed ejabberd XMPP server using an OSX installer version 2.1.11 -- ...
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2answers
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Red Hat installation query: no Gnome GUI
I'm trying to install Red Hat on my Windows system but Im facing a problem. I get only one option during installation which is "Minimal" and even if I check Gnome desktop in customize options, I only ...
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2answers
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SOLVED: linux vmware player installation “VMs are running” error
I was evaluating vmware workstation lately but as my trial period ran out i decided not to go for a license so I uninstalled the now defunct workstation 9 in order to re install the player.
The ...
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1answer
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Installation hangs at console: output LVDS-1 is running on CRTC 1 using output A [closed]
Tried all 32bit editions of mint, all hang crash to console with that reading. Very frustrating. Any clue how to get past this screen?
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How to install cpp in RHEL 6.3?
I want to install gcc in RHEL 6.3, but it has cpp dependencies.
So I go to cpp rpm download page, but it has no rpm for 6.3 version:
Is there any other way to install cpp in RHEL 6.3?
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Need these offline installing packages [closed]
I'm an offline Linux Mint user. I go to cafes and download my software there which is most probably in .tar.gz or tar.bz2 files.
We need to compile them to install the software. After reading through ...
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2answers
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Install Fedora core 15 on HP Smart Array Controller HDD
I need to install "Fedora Core 15" Linux on to HP Smart Array Controller attached HDD.
Problem is Fedora Core 15 kernel do not has HPSA device driver. I tried to load (my own build) HPSA driver ...
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1answer
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Copying a working Linux instead of installing a new one [duplicate]
It is possible to move an installed Linux from one drive to another or from one disk to another by two methods:
dd command which copies sector by sector including boot sector
cp command, and then ...
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1answer
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vim install on freebsd has taken 5 hours and counting
Ok, so installed portmaster and I'm trying with it, I'm hoping it won't take time.
So I've been up all night and my vim installation is still going on.
I have an amazon ec2 freebsd server setup. I ...
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1answer
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Can't access server after rvm install
I messed up my server yesterday, and im not quite sure how to get it straight again. After trying to install SiriProxy by severall guides failing one after the other on the step for rvm and ...
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1answer
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Fedora Upgrade Error
I was trying to upgrade to Fedora 16 (I had f14) using preupgrade. However,
it fails at the end (after saying: preparing transaction from installation source) and gives the following error:
A fatal ...
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3answers
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How to truely install a tar.gz file on Linux - how to manage manually-installed (or standalone) applications?
I see all these links explaining packages and .debs... I know that... and there are many kludges to get tar.gz files working (eg: update-alternatives for Java or manually dropping the file in ...
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1answer
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Update install repository on liveUSB?
I'm using a kubuntu liveUSB with persistence. It's possible to update the liveUSB itself, such that the updates persist. However, the update packages aren't used for installation, as far as I can ...
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2answers
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What is the advantage of a network installation?
Looked into a network installation of fedora there. It seems you need to setup http & ftp servers on the host along with booting from a cd.
So what are the advantages of installing linux over the ...
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503 views
Installing prstat package command on Ubuntu Linux
I'm trying to run the prstat command on my Ubuntu server, but it doesn't seem to be installed, I have searched the web for the package name needed to install it but without any luck for some reason..
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1answer
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How can I create a Windows XP installation USB drive? [closed]
There are two partitions on my hard disk, one is Linux Mint and one is newly formatted. (a simplification)
I have Windows XP installation disks and iso files, however my optical drive isn't working.
...
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1answer
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Apt-Get Install Unmet Dependencies
My debian computer will not install the new kernel. It says I have unmet dependencies, and those dependencies say they have unmet dependencies. Many of these dependencies are already installed ...
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2answers
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Linux Need Basic Libraries Without Internet
So I've been battling with my debian install lately, it doesn't have the firmware for either eth0 or wan0 NIC's. However, I got a firmware.zip file that I need to extract to /lib/firmware. The problem ...
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2answers
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Installing Linux Mint on a blank SSD
I've dual booted Mint and Windows 7, but I'd really like to get rid of Windows all together. And from what I understand, it's not really a true dual boot, but it's actually just running from inside ...
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1answer
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Why do I need to install -devel packages?
I am new to Linux and wonder why many times when I install package with yum I need to install package-devel.i386 rather than package.i386. What is the difference between them?
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mod_python won't “./configure” because it can't determine httpd version
I'm trying to install mod_python 3.3.1 on Apache 2.4.3 and whenever I try to run ./configure (with apxs etc) and instead of configuring correctly, it says that Apache 2.x is required and my current ...
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httpd-devel requires outdated version of glibc-common on CentOS 6.3
httpd-devel requires an outdated version of glibc-common on CentOS 6.3 x86_64 and Apache/2.2.15. It wants 2.12-1.80.el6 and I have 2.12-1.80.el6_3.3.x86_64 installed (via CentOS @update repo)
Here is ...
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2answers
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How do I install Chromium on F17?
I just installed the Beefy Miracle on my box, but essentially being the first time I've used Linux I'm not sure how to perform even some of the most basic tasks.
I thought I would try to install ...
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2answers
1k views
How do I install packages with F17?
I just installed Fedora 17 on my box and I'm having trouble installing packages. I used to think that across all linux os'es all it took was sudo apt-get install packagae.
I don't think this is the ...
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1answer
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Cut down the installed space?
My system: Debian 6.04, sda is working disk, sdb is my USB disk.
I installed Debian onto the USB drive this way, to edit grub file on sda,
nano /boot/grub/grub.cfg to add the new lines
menuentry ...
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3answers
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Installing from source. How to resolve dependencies without destroying the package manager.
I don't consider myself a total noob, but compiling and installing software is a pain and problem I cannot overcome. I just want to run down through my understanding of this process with someone more ...
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2answers
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How to install older version of glibc?
I'm trying to install gcc-4.4 on RHEL6: sudo rpm -ivh /mnt/dvd/Packages/gcc-4.4.3-1.el6.x86_64.rpm. But the problem is that is depends on glibc and glibc-common libraries. When I try to install them ...
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Problem installing RHEL on HP Itanium Server
When I am trying to install RHEL (6.3, 5.8, 4.8) on an HP Integrity Server rx2660 Itanium with 4GB RAM, I keep getting to the same point which is
Loading file efi\boot\initrd.img...done
After ...
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Linux Mint 13 not installing
I just decided to move to Linux. I downloaded the Mint 13 iso and wrote it to a DVD.
I installed it on my Win7 laptop with VMware workstation to test and all worked fine. So I decided to reboot my ...
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Can not boot ArchLinux with a Macbook pro 7.1
Today i endly decide to put a Linux in dual boot on my macbook 7.1
I parted the HDD with Gparted like this :
refit / MacOSX / boot / root / home
I installed Arch succefully, folowing the tuto about ...
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4answers
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Best rolling release distribution for Macbook pro
I got a macbook pro 7.1 wich is running OSX, i'm looking for the most compatible distribution to dual boot.
Here's my criteria :
I don't want to reinstall my system every 6 month, so i'll prefer a ...
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“Couldn't resolve host” when installing/updating yum packages
Whenever I try to install or update a package using yum, after it updates its DB these messages are shown:
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit, tidy-cache google64
...
