dpkg returning an error code 1 doesn’t mean anything specific but it usually has to do with dependency issues. In your case, you tried to install two versions/instances of the same package i.e. mysql-server and mysql-server-5.7. So do the following to remove any redundant dependency issues and install a functioning mysql package sudo apt-get clean … Read more
use: override_dh_shlibdeps: dh_shlibdeps –dpkg-shlibdeps-params=–ignore-missing-info if your rule file hasn’t the dh_shlibdeps call in it. That’s usually the case if you’ve %: dh $@ as only rule in it … in above you must use a tab and not spaces in front of the dh_shlibdeps
From the doc: command – Executes a command on a remote node The command module takes the command name followed by a list of space-delimited arguments. The given command will be executed on all selected nodes. It will not be processed through the shell, so variables like $HOME and operations like “<“, “>”, “|”, and … Read more
Ubuntu 16.04 comes with PHP7 as the standard, so there are no PHP5 packages However if you like you can add a PPA to get those packages anyways: Remove all the stock php packages List installed php packages with dpkg -l | grep php| awk ‘{print $2}’ |tr “\n” ” ” then remove unneeded packages … Read more
This functionality is provided by rpm, not yum: rpm -ql [packagename] From the documentation: The general form of an rpm query command is rpm {-q | –query} [PACKAGE_NAME] [query-options] Information selection options: -l, –list List files in package.
On the reference installation (only once): dpkg-query -W -f=”${Package}\n” | sort > baselist.txt (The following assumes bash) To get the packages added from the reference installation (this doesn’t show what was removed): comm -1 -3 baselist.txt <(dpkg-query -W -f=”${Package}\n” | sort) Even better, avoiding copy of baselist.txt: comm -1 -3 <(ssh user@refserver cat /path/to/baselist.txt) <(dpkg-query … Read more
You are on the right track. You definitely want to use DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive. For critical questions that cannot be ignored, you will want to preseed the debconf database with the necessary answers. The debconf man page has all the details about how to accomplish that.
You probably want to take a look at all the documentation surrounding Debtags. It’s… not as simple as you might think. No, I don’t know why, either.
Use the cruft package: cruft is a program to look over the system for anything that shouldn’t be there, but is; or for anything that should be there, but isn’t.
PGP-signing Debian packages is not necessary if you built them for your own private use. It’s just the common authentication method for (official) Debian developers when they upload new packages into the Debian “unstable” branch. To avoid the error message just use: dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us (see also the manpage of dpkg-buildpackage)