I would like to know how is possible to get the DEBIAN/debian folder from a ".deb" package.
I found that decompressing a ".deb" package using decompressing tools such as p7zip or dpkg decompress only the software that is going to be installed, and I was thinking that A software can be all free/open source etc, but how can you be sure that there are no Mallory post/pre installation scripts in the ".deb" package?
You want
dpkg -e path/to/deb
For more info, see man dpkg-deb.
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I am trying to install gnocchi-api, gnocchi-metricd and python-gnocchiclient with apt-get. I found that the postinst scripts in /var/lib/dpkg/info have some misconfigured ports due to which I cannot install the packages successfully. I wanted to ask if there is a way to change the post-installation scripts nad then re-install the package.
Thanks.
Ideally this kind of problems would be solved by filing a bug report (possibly with a patch) and letting the maintainer upload a fixed version that you can upgrade to.
If you need an immediate local workaround though, you could do the following:
Either apt download <package> or dpkg-repack <package> if for example this is a local package only, or the archive does not contain the version you are interested in f.ex.
dpkg-deb -R <package_version_arch>.deb bin-dir
sensible-editor bin-dir/DEBIAN/postinst
sensible-editor bin-dir/DEBIAN/control ideally to bump the version to mark this as a local modification, say by appending +local1 or similar.
dpkg-deb -b bin-dir .
dpkg -i <package_local-version_arch>.deb
recently I'm reading nginx source code, but I got confused how to build it's code by autoconf, I have try my best to write a Makefile.am, unfortunate, I'm failed to write a correct Makefile.am file, so I cann't get a configure file, does anybody know how to write a Makefile.am?
I know how to write a Makefile.am, but you have no need to.
As you know, the nginx source package is a GNU autotools
package.
You don't do the autotooling. The people who write nginx do that. When you
download the source package, the configure.ac, the Makefile.am(s) and other
autotools files are already there along with all the source code.
To build the package, all you have to do is run the configure script to
generate correct makefiles for your system, then run make. (This is why the
build system is called autotools.)
Source packages are distributed from http://nginx.org/download/. Assuming
you want nginx 1.10.2 (the stable release at this time), you simply do this
in a suitable working directory:
$ wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.10.2.tar.gz
$ tar zxf nginx-1.10.2.tar.gz
$ cd nginx-1.10.2
$ ./configure
$ make
Then it's built in ./nginx-1.10.2. If you then want to install nginx in your system, continue:
$ sudo make install
Building any autotooled source package is essential the same as this.
For full details and variations, do read NSTALLING NGINX OPEN SOURCE
I have write a email to nginx's author, he said configure file was written by hand
I use a cluster (OS is Linux) which does not have R. I would like to install R in my personal folders so that I can just do
Rscript example.R arg1 arg2
How should I install R on this cluster knowing that I don't have admin rights?
How can I then manage the packages?
I'm not sure this is on-topic, but: all you really have to do is
download the R source tarball from CRAN; unpack it somewhere in your file space
create an r-build directory at the same level of the hierarchy (not technically necessary, but it's better practice to keep the source and build directories separate)
create an installation directory (say ~/r_install) somewhere sensible within your file space
cd to the source directory; tools/rsync-recommended
cd to the build directory
../[srcdir]/configure --prefix=~/r_install
make (to build the binaries)
make install (to move everything where it belongs; not technically necessary, as you can run R from the build directory)
Where this may get hairy is with all of the system requirements for R (LaTeX, Java, bzip2, etc. etc. ...) it is theoretically possible to download all this stuff and install it in your own file space, but it starts to get sufficiently tedious that it will be easier to beg your sysadmin to install at least the dependencies for you ...
as #Hack-R points out the basics of this answer are already present on Unix & Linux stackexchange, although my answer is a little more detailed ...
I downloaded GNAT ADA GPL 2014 and now trying to install on my Mac.
The directions below are the ones I am following, but I do not know where to look to find the file called doinstall. I might still need some help after finding it, but can anyone help me out here?
Navigate to the directory that contains a file called: doinstall
Enter: sudo mkdir /usr/local/gnat
Enter: sudo ./doinstall
Update your path as needed for your shell
You should have downloaded gnat-gpl-2014-x86_64-darwin-bin.tar.gz.
Go to some temporary directory (I use ~/tmp):
cd ~/tmp
Unpack the download, which creates a directory gnat-gpl-2014-x86_64-darwin-bin containing the binary distribution to be installed:
tar zxvf ~/Downloads/gnat-gpl-2014-x86_64-darwin-bin.tar.gz
Enter that directory, which contains (amongst others) doinstall:
cd gnat-gpl-2014-x86_64-darwin-bin
Execute doinstall to enter the installation dialog:
sudo ./doinstall
Remove the unpacked download:
cd ..
rm -rf gnat-gpl-2014-x86_64-darwin-bin
Now you can update PATH as needed for your shell.
What Simon Wright said is correct, but if you're running on Yosemite there's an extra problem: for some obscure reason, Adacore GNAT is broken on Yosemite. You have to make it think it's compiling for Mavericks:
export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.9 # Yosemite workaround
That can go in a few different places, but I put it near the top of the /usr/local/gnat/bin/gps script so it doesn't interfere with the xcodebuild environment.
Also, I found GTKAda to be nearly impossible to install from source; if you download the XNAdaLib-GPL package from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuada/ you can install that and get everything you need without having to wade through Adacore's mess. (You may want to use the Adacore version of Glade for GUI design though; for some reason the Sourceforge package's version is localized in French and I'm not sure if it can be switched to English.)
Finally, since this is a bit duct-tape-and-baling-wire, I would recommend not shipping any production mission-critical code with this environment; either roll back to Mavericks or wait for GNAT 2015.
I'm trying to setup PHP, apache environment on HP-UX server. While install i'm using usual commands of "./configur, make, make install". Here when I'm trying to install PCRE I got an error like follows.
CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/bash /home/ubuntu/softwares/m4-1.4.17/build-aux/missing aclocal-1.14 -I m4 /home/ubuntu/softwares/m4-1.4.17/build-aux/missing: line 81: aclocal-1.14: command not found WARNING: 'aclocal-1.14' is missing on your system.
You should only need it if you modified 'acinclude.m4' or
'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'.
The 'aclocal' program is part of the GNU Automake package:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/automake>
It also requires GNU Autoconf, GNU m4 and Perl in order to run:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf>
<http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
<http://www.perl.org/> Makefile:1496: recipe for target 'aclocal.m4' failed make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 127
So I download latest versions of "m4, autoconf and automake" source and try to install using usual make command.
First I tried to install "automake" it through error asking to install "autoconf"
Then I tried to install autoconf again it ask to install "m4"
Then I tried to install "m4" now it through the same error above listed.
So it became a loop of same set of error not letting me to install.
Can any one help me to sort this issues. Please consider this is a HP-UX unix server so don't recommend the famous ubuntu "apt-get install" command or red hat specific commands.
First read William Pursell's comment to your post (above). If you still need to install the autotools ...
Check to see what, if any, autotools you may already have installed by typing: m4 --versionand autoconf --versionand automake --version.
You should use HP-UX's package manager. It's called Software Distributor (SD). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Distributor
HP-UX's FAQ 5.9 explains how to handle dependencies using depothelper. http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/answers/5-9.html
Here is where you find the correct autotool packages (autoconf, automake, libtool) for HP-UX. Install these HP-UX packages using HP-UX's native package manager instead of compiling from source. http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/packages.html
I was facing the same problem with m4. In my case, the problem was I was transferring all the source files via scp to a server.
When I tried to configure, make and make install through ssh, this kept happening. I believe something did not transfer the way it was supposed to.
The problem was solved by manually transferring the files
through a USB.
It's not a perfect solution (it implies physical access to the server) but it works.