Problem scenario
A partition is filling up on CentOS/Stream/RHEL/Fedora Linux. You do not want to have a package be installed in /usr or some “normal” location. You want to uninstall a package and reinstall it elsewhere. But moving the directory won’t work because the binary command will point to the old location. What should you do to get the destination of the installation to be something customized (and not the default directory)?

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Problem scenario
You installed wine. You ran a command, but you got this:
“wine: could not exec wineserver”

What should you do?

Solution

1. Run this:

sudo find / -name wineserver64

2. Run this command but replace “/path/to” with the path to the wineserver64 file you found above:

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Problem scenario
You run a command, but you get a message like “filenotfounderror”, “file or directory does not exist” or something similar. What should you do?

Possible Solution #1 (assuming that the file exists)
Do either i. or ii.
i.a. Find the original file with a command like this: sudo find / -name foobar
i.b. Create a symbolic link or a hard link to the file.

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Problem scenario
You open a terminal window in Linux. You get an error like one of the following:

flatpak: /lib64/libldap_r-2.4.so.2: no version information available (required by /lib64/libcurl.so.4)

flatpak: error while loading shared libraries: libsasl2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

What should you do?

Solution
(This solution will work if the file is in a different location from where it was expected on your server.)
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