How to search for a file in apk packages
I would like to know, given a binary’s name, which package I should install on Alpine Linux.
package-management
Fedora’s command-not-found doesn’t work
I’ve recently installed Fedora 19. Packagekit-command-not-found is installed. But its own examples don’t work. When I enter gedti the output is:
How to download a package and its dependencies with aptitude?
I am trying to download some debian packages and their dependencies in a directory.
How do I check package version using apt-get / aptitude?
Before I install a package, I’d like to know what version I would get.
Equivs: enhance or update an existing package without uninstalling?
Some background: I’m using Debian 7 as my main environment, and I want to tell my system that I have glibc = 2.15 in addition to the environment’s required glibc = 2.13 for the purposes of using some more recent applications.
How to install the latest Python version on Debian separately or upgrade?
I’m still new to Linux, so I’m still trying to understand where executables and their libraries are and how to install packages, so I have Debian Wheezy 7.3 which has these Python versions:
How to find the packages that depend on a certain package in apt?
How can I get, not the dependencies of a package, but the packages that are depending on a certain package?
Reinstalling all Debian packages
I killed by mistake a dpkg process running in the background and I would like to reinstall all packages to be sure everything is allright.
How to make apt ignore unfulfilled dependencies of installed package?
I installed Opera 12.16 from a .deb for reasons. Just assume that I need this specific browser of this specific version and that there’s no alternative.
How to change folder permissions during package installation
I’m making a deb package to install a custom application. I changed all files/folders ownership to root in order to avoid the warnings I was getting during installation, and in Ubuntu all runs smoothly, as Ubuntu changes the ownership of the files/folders to the user installing the package.