Introduction to the rpm.versions System
The rpm.versions system manages many of the packages on your cPanel & WHM server.
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cPanel PHP
cPanel & WHM includes PHP and its modules as a set of packages, including the associated PEAR and PECL packages and PHP loaders.
Determine Your System Status
Hosting providers and system administrators can use this document to determine whether their systems have been compromised.
How to Build and Install Custom RPMs on Red-Hat Systems
This document describes how to build custom RPMs for your Red-Hat® systems.
How to Override the rpm.versions System
System administrators and third-party developers can modify cPanel-provided package management.
How to Set or Unset Package Management
This document provides steps on how to set packages to both the managed and unmanaged states.
How to Set Up a Third-Party Package Repository with GPG Signatures
Third-party customers who want to create their own package repositories must create digest files and GnuPG (GPG) signatures as well as the necessary package files.
Install Distro Packages
This interface allows you to install software packages via the package-management system.
Package Manager Basics
Package managers allow you to easily update, install, and remove packages on your system.
Rebuild RPM Database
This interface allows you to rebuild the RPM database.
RPM Installation Failures
This document provides examples of common RPM installation failures.
System Update
This interface allows you to update all of your server's packages.
Target Settings
Target settings represent the group of packages that must exist on the server for a specific service to function properly.
The check_cpanel_pkgs Script
This script scans every cPanel-managed package on your server for problems.
The cPanel & WHM Update Configuration File - cpupdate.conf
The cpupdate.conf file on your server determines how cPanel & WHM updates your system.
The ea-cpanel-tools Package's Scripts
This package includes scripts that allow you to work with EasyApache 4 (EA4) from the command line rather than in WHM's EasyApache 4 interface.
The find_and_fix_rpm_issues Script
The /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/find_and_fix_rpm_issues script detects issues with your server's RPM database and rebuilds the database if problems exist.
The rpm.versions File
This file contains all of the cPanel-provided settings for the rpm.versions system.
The update_local_rpm_versions Script
Use this script to update the /var/cpanel/rpm.versions.d/local.versions file.