Package management

I‘m a new Linux system administrator and wanted to perform software installation and maintenance. I’ve downloaded a file called awstats.i386.rpm and how do I install it under CentOS / RHEL / Suse / Fedora / Redhat Linux?

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I got new server and installed phpMyAdmin. But whenever I visit the phpmyadmin url it says:

Cannot load mysql extension. Please check your PHP configuration

How do I fix this problem under CentOS / RHEL / Fedora Linux Apache web server?

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I‘ve Huawei technologies EC1260 CDMA HSIA USB modem. How do I configure Tata Teleservices “Tata Photon+ Mobile Broadband” Service under Linux operating systems using this modem?

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I got rsnapshot based backup server up and running for my network under Debian Linux 5.x. But, whenever I run a backup job using the following command:

rsnapshot -v -c /root/rsnapshot.server1.conf hourly
I get the following messages on screen:

WARNING: Could not lchown() symlink “/nas/.rsnapshot/hourly.1/server1.example.com/etc/alternatives/locate”
WARNING: Could not lchown() symlink “/nas/.rsnapshot/hourly.1/server1.example.com/etc/alternatives/nc.1.gz”
WARNING: Could not lchown() symlink “/nas/.rsnapshot/hourly.1/server1.example.com/etc/alternatives/jexec-binfmt”
WARNING: Could not lchown() symlink “/nas/.rsnapshot/hourly.1/server1.example.com/etc/alternatives/servertool”

How do I fix this problem?

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How do I upgrade CentOS Linux from version 5.3 to latest version 5.4 over the Internet?

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How do I protect my yum repo’s packages from certain repositories getting replaced / updated via yum command itself under CentOS / RHEL / Redhat Enterprise Linux?

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How do I upgrade Perl version under FreeBSD operating system?

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