Identifying the system package manager
Is there a way (from a script) to identify the default system package manager?
package-management
Is there a way to determine what packages or libraries should be loaded to support an executable?
There is an executable I want to install on a computer that I can’t recompile that wasn’t built as a package, and I want to download the libraries it requires to run them.
How do I remove/uninstall a program that I have complied from source?
A lot of people has asked me how can they remove from their boxes a program they compiled and installed from source. Some times -very few- the program’s author adds an uninstall rule to their Makefile, but that’s not usually the case. This is my primary reason to write CheckInstall. After you ./configure; make your program, CheckInstall will run make install (or whatever you tell it to run) and keep track of every file modified by this installation.
Installing PHP7.0 from sid on jessie
I’d like to try PHP7.0 on Debian Jessie and am trying to install it from sid. However, php7.0 depends on php7.0-common which depends on php-common > 18 while php-common in sid is at 17. Does this mean it’s simply impossible to install php7.0 from this distribution at the moment? Why is that?
change cache location path for APT
When using apt, can I tell it to use other then /var/cache/apt location?
I tried adding the following line in /etc/apt/apt.conf: