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What software is installed on my Linux Virtual Private Server (VPS)?

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Last Updated: July 15, 2015 12:52 PM

The contents of your Virtual Private Linux server depends the Linux distribution you are using. Below is an overview of the packages deployed with your server, prior to optional control panel installation. Control panels such as cPanel, Simple Control Panel and Parallels Plesk Panel will alter the packages deployed. For more information, see:

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

yum install package name

where package name 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 server. Its syntax is the following:

rpm -qa --queryformat "%{GROUP} %{NAME}-%{VERSION}\n" | sort

Gateway-based Servers

If you're not sure if you have a Managed Servers or not, see Am I using Gateway or the Hosting Control Center? All of our Managed VPS accounts use Gateway.

CentOS with cPanel

Operating System Linux CentOS release 6.5 (Final)
OS Kernel Linux 2.6.32-042stab085.20 x86_64
Remote Access Services OpenSSH 5.3p1
Email Services Sendmail 8.14.4
Development Languages/Environments GCC (c++, libgcc) 4.4.7
Perl 5.10.1
Python 2.6.6
PHP 5.4.26
Database and Directory Services MySQL 5.5.36-cll
DNS Services BIND 9.8.2
Web Servers and Components Apache 2.2.26
EasyApacheCpanel 3.24.13
Mod_ssl 2.2.17
Mod_perl 2.0.4

CentOS with no control panel

Operating System Linux CentOS release 6.5 (Final)
OS Kernel Linux 2.6.32-042stab085.20 x86_64
Remote Access Services OpenSSH 5.3p1
Email Services Sendmail 8.14.4
Development Languages/Environments libgcc (4.4.7)
Perl 5.10.1
Python 2.6.6
Database and Directory Services -
DNS Services BIND 9.7.3 - 9.8.2
Web Servers and Components httpd -2.2.15 (Apache 2 webserver)

Fedora

Operating System Fedora 20 (Heisenbug)
OS Kernel Linux 3.11.9-042stab085.17 x86_64
Remote Access Services OpenSSH 6.4p1
Email Services Sendmail 8.14.8
Development Languages/Environments libgcc (4.8.2)
Perl 5.18.2
Python 2.7.5
Database and Directory Services -
DNS Services BIND 9.9.4
Web Servers and Components httpd -2.4.9 (Apache 2 webserver)

Hosting Control Panel

If you're not sure if you have a Hosting Control Panel server or not, see Am I using Gateway or the Hosting Control Center?

Fedora 14 Software
Operating System Linux Fedora 14
OS Kernel Linux kernel 2.6.32 - 2.6.35
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

CentOS 6
Operating System Linux CentOS 6
OS Kernel Linux kernel 2.6.18 - 2.6.32
Remote Access Services OpenSSH 5.3p1
Email Services Sendmail 8.14.4
Development Languages/Environments GCC 4.4.6 - 4.4.7
Perl 5.10.1
PHP 5.3.3
Database and Directory Services MySQL 5.1.61 - 5.1.67
DNS Services BIND 9.7.3 - 9.8.2
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)

CentOS 5
Operating System Linux CentOS 5
OS Kernel Linux kernel 2.6 - 2.6.18
Remote Access Services OpenSSH 4.3p2
Email Services Sendmail 8.13.8
Development Languages/Environments GCC (C, C++, Objc, GCJ) 4.11 - 4.1.2
Perl 5.8.8
PHP 5.1.6
Database and Directory Services MySQL 5.0.22 - 5.0.77
DNS Services BIND 9.3.3 - 9.3.6
Web Servers and Components Apache 2.2.3
Mod_ssl 2.2.3
Mod_perl 2.0.2cmd - 2.0.4
Mod_python 3.1 -3.2.8


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 - 2.11.9
phpPgAdmin 4.0 - 4.2.2
Tomcat 5.5 - 5.5.28
SpamAssassin 3.0 3.3.2
SquirrelMail 1.4 - 1.4.21
Webalizer 2.0 - 2.21_2

NOTE: For information about which PHP libraries are installed on your Virtual Private Server (VPS) see Which PHP libraries are installed by default on my Virtual Private Server (VPS).