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What software is installed on my Linux dedicated server?

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Last Updated: July 15, 2015 12:54 PM

The contents of your dedicated Linux server depends on what kind of Linux distribution you are using. Below is an overview of the packages deployed with your server, prior to optional control panel installation.

Dedicated servers with Parallels Plesk Panel installed will have different configurations. For more information, see the SWSOFT Plesk datasheet at http://www.parallels.com/r/pdfs/Datasheets/plesk.pdf.

Dedicated servers with cPanel installed will have different configurations. For more information, see the cPanel datasheet at http://www.cpanel.net/products/cpwhm/cpanel11/cpanel11-ds.pdf.

All servers are deployed with yum and any vendor supplied package may be added to your system by typing:

yum install packagename

where packagename is the name of the package you would like to install.

The Linux rpm command can be used to list the packages that exist on your Linux dedicated server. Its syntax is the following:

rpm -qa --queryformat "%{GROUP} %{NAME}-%{VERSION}\n" | sort
Fedora 14 Software
Operating System     Linux Fedora 14
OS Kernel Linux kernel 2.6.35.13-91
Remote Access Services OpenSSH 5.5p1
Email Services Sendmail 8.14.4
Development Languages/Environments GCC (C, C++, Objc, GCJ) 4.5.1
Perl 5.12.3
PHP 5.3.6
Database and Directory Services MySQL 5.1.56
DNS Services BIND 9.7.3
Web Servers and Components Apache 2.2.17
Mod_ssl 2.2.17
Mod_perl 2.0.4
Mod_python 3.3.1
CentOS 5
Operating System     Linux CentOS 5.8
OS Kernel Linux kernel 2.6
Remote Access Services OpenSSH 4.3p2
Email Services Sendmail 8.13.8
Development Languages/Environments GCC (C, C++, Objc, GCJ) 4.11
Perl 5.8.8
PHP 5.1.6
Database and Directory Services MySQL 5.0.22
DNS Services BIND 9.3.3
Web Servers and Components Apache 2.0
Mod_ssl 2.2.3
Mod_perl 2.0.2cmd
Mod_python 3.1

CentOS 6
Operating System     Linux CentOS 6
OS Kernel Linux kernel 2.6.32
Remote Access Services OpenSSH 5.3p1
Email Services Sendmail 8.14.4
Development Languages/Environments GCC 4.4.6
Perl 5.10.1
PHP 5.3.3
Database and Directory Services MySQL 5.1.61
DNS Services BIND 9.7.3
Web Servers and Components Apache 2.2.15
Mod_ssl 2.2.15
Mod_perl 2.0.4
Mod_python not installed (3.3.1 available from EPEL)



Servers with Simple Control Panel

Sites with Simple Control Panel installed will have different configurations. Below is a list of the default configuration:
Apache 2.0
PHP 4.3(FC2 / RHEL4 / CentOS4) / 5.0 (FC4)
MySQL 3.23 (FC2) / 4.1 (FC4 / RHEL4 / CentOS4)
PostgreSQL 7.4 (FC2 / RHEL4 / CentOS4) / 8.0 (FC4)
phpMyAdmin 2.9
phpPgAdmin 4.0
Tomcat 5.5
SpamAssassin 3.0
SquirrelMail 1.4
Webalizer 2.0

NOTE: For information about which PHP libraries are installed on your Dedicated Server see Which PHP libraries are installed by default on my Dedicated Server.