centos

copy and paste between vmware centos guest and host failed

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some centos distribution has no open-vm-tools package, so we need to compile it by hand:

yum install libmspack-devel pam-devel xmlsec1-devel libXext-devel libXinerama-devel libXrender-devel libXrandr-devel libXtst-devel gtk3-devel gtkmm30-devel libtirpc-devel rpcgen libtool-devel

git clone https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools.git
cd open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools
autoreconf -i
./configure
make
make install

vmware-user

ps. how to enable auto-fitting with resolution

#install driver
yum install xorg-x11-drv-vmware
#add option to configure open-vm-tools
./configure --enable-resolutionkms
make
make install
#startup two vmtoolsds, one for vmusr, one for vmsvc which serves auto-resizing
vmware-user
vmtoolsd

refer to:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tools/11.3.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vmwaretools.doc/GUID-8B6EA5B7-453B-48AA-92E5-DB7F061341D1.html

comparing ubuntu with centos in package management

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yum

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# find which package the cmd 'a.out' belongs to
yum provides */bin/a.out
# check if 'wget' package is installed
yum list installed | grep wget
# download 'wget' package to /tmp/rpm/
yum install yum-plugin-downloadonly
yum download --downloaddir=/tmp/rpm/ --downloadonly wget
# list all files in 'wget' package
rpm -qlp /tmp/rpm/wget*.rpm
# another method listing files without downloading
yum install yum-utils
repoquery -l wget

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# find which package 'Python.h' belongs to
apt install apt-file
apt-file update
apt-file search Python.h
# list all files in 'wget' package
dpkg -L wget

package names

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  ubuntu			  centos
install build-essential		groupinstall "Development tools"
xfce4				@xfce-desktop
ssh				openssh-clients
udev				systemd-udev
libc6-dev			glibc-devel
libglib2.0-dev			glib2-devel
libffi-dev			libffi-devel
libncurses5			ncurses
libncurses5-dev			ncurses-devel
libsqlite3-dev			sqlite-devel
libnet1-dev			libnet-devel
libreadline6			readline
bridge-utils			bridge-utils
libpcre3-dev			pcre-devel
libyaml-dev			libyaml-devel
libmagic-dev			file-devel
liblua5.1-0-dev			lua-devel
libssl-dev			openssl-devel
zlib1g-dev			zlib-devel
lm-sensors			lm_sensors
ifenslave			iputils
ntpdate				ntp
redis-server			redis
libperl-dev			perl-devel
libjpeg-turbo8-dev		libjpeg-turbo-devel
libfreetype6-dev		freetype-devel
iproute2			iproute
iputils-ping			iputils
ifupdown			NetworkManager
net-tools			net-tools
libpython3.8-dev		python3-devel
mysql-server			mysql5-server
libmysqlclient-dev		mysql5-devel
tofrodos			dos2unix
				kernel-headers
				kernel-devel
qemu-user-static
initramfs-tools
gcc-5-plugin-dev
build-essential
libprelude-dev
libzmq3-dev
libhtp-dev
fbset				maybe in xorg-x11-server

deprecated in ubuntu

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sysv-rc-conf
libjpeg-dev # why?

refer to:
https://blog.csdn.net/mimosa2008/article/details/102833837
https://forums.centos.org/viewtopic.php?t=14711
https://blog.csdn.net/xldwhj/article/details/72831674
https://www.cnblogs.com/orcl-2018/p/13276558.html
https://blog.csdn.net/HAOMCU/article/details/7268687
https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/help/fedora/