Questions tagged [package-management]
Package management is the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing software packages for a computer's operating system in a consistent manner.
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Using Yum to install packages for my user only
I would like to be able to install packages by using a package manager (Yum is available on my server), but I don't have root access. I don't technically need root access, I just want the packages to ...
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How can I install Thunderbird 2 on a Ubuntu 10.04?
I want to install Thunderbird 2 on my laptop, which now has Ubuntu 10.04 on it. I'd prefer to use the Ubuntu package system if that's possible, but with all the tools included in Ubuntu, only ...
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Creating aliases for version specific macports ports
In Macports, I've just installed 'python27' along with various 'py27-*' ports.
I've noticed that ports like 'py27-nose' and 'py27-pip' are available in my path as 'nose-2.7' and 'pip-2.7'. I can use ...
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Can pkgsrc, Homebrew, Fink, and MacPorts peacefully coexist?
I heard that some people like to use both Fink and Macports since some packages exist in one and not the other.
Recently I've had trouble building and running packages like GRASS and Digikam w/ ...
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Program to display packages by their size in Ubuntu
I managed to fill up my Ubuntu partition by installing large number of packages. When I was installing them, I was thinking about future, so there is a number of packages which I will not use for ...
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How to remove a package I compiled and installed manually?
I recently compiled and installed Git on a new install of Mac OS 10.6 but it didn't install the documentation.
I now realize I should've used the precompiled package offered here: http://code.google....
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Is it safe to install both Homebrew and Macports on the same machine?
I have MacPorts installed on my iMac with a fair number of ports installed.
I'm interested in trying out Homebrew, though, as I've heard many good things about it, and because I've noticed that it ...
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How do I find out which package owns a file?
How do I find out what Debian package a file came from?
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How do I find out which package owns a file? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I find out which package owns a file?
How do I find out what Debian package a file came from?
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How to remove gzip from Linux
I tried
sudo aptitude remove gzip
and it looked like it uninstalled but when I typed gzip at the terminal it still ran.
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Find where a program is installed in Linux
After installing a program using a package manager where is the information about where the program was installed and in which menu category it can be found.
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Mac Packaging: proposal for a new method(suggestions please) [closed]
Macports is the only packaging system I have checked out on the Mac and I dont like it.(it needs all its applications installed in a particular location. Thats probably the reason why it showed ...
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Installing two things at the same time on Linux
I noticed that package managers won't install things if they know that another package manager is open. So I was wondering if it's OK to install multiple things at the same time when using the ...
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How can I upgrade to a newer version of a package than the one in my current release of Ubuntu
I want to upgrade an application that I have on Ubuntu Server 8.04. I see that the version of the application I want is available under Ubuntu 10.4. Is there a way that I can get just that application ...
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kde frontend for apt
I'm recently installed kde in debian testing in my laptop, which is a good frontend to apt?
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Smallest rpm based linux possible?
Considering Linux distributions that are based on RPM. How can we have the smallest possible of these Linuxes in size with minimum number of packages?
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Which Ports manager to use on FreeBSD? (8.0 and above)
There is no clear answer which one to use on the net. Tried searching but couldn't dig up anything useful. Also, the user manual mentions them altogether, won't list the advantages/disadvantages, ...
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Change the Chromium update frequency on Ubuntu to Stable build PPA
So, I have been using Chrome as my primary browser for a while now.
As far as I can remember I had set the PPA to the stable build, but somehow recently, it seems to have changed to the daily build ...
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How to know the recommended/suggested packages using terminal?
In synaptic if you right-click a package you will see a sub-menu called recommended and another sub-menu called suggested.
How can I see the recommended and suggested packages for a specific package ...
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Bash function/alias for package managers help
I'm using Arch Linux. I have packer installed for AUR packages, but I want to be able to use the pacman command for both. I think I will need a function for this -- what I mean is that whenever I use ...
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How to create a debian split package when using debhelper
I have a debian package that I maintain whose source builds two separate pieces of software. I'd like to have it done so that it generates two packages when I build (foo-client and foo-server). The ...
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How do I create a package for updated Eclipse in Ubuntu?
So the new version of Eclipse, Helios, has been released. The Ubuntu repository has the previous version. I understand you can make packages yourself (ie create an eclipse.deb) so that your system has ...
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Linux: how to uninstall something that isn't a package...?
I installed ruby1.9.1 from source using sudo make install. How can I uninstall this?
Basically I just don't want 'ruby' to map to ruby1.9.1, but instead the default 1.8.7.
Also sudo make uninstall ...
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SVNNotify Where is it? how do I find it?
I am on ubuntu.
ok first of all I am running a post-commit script. I need the path to svnnotify to run it. The path the turotial I am reading has it as /usr/local/bin/svnnotify but nothing is in that ...
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Fresh install of 64bit Ubuntu needs flash but adobe doesn't have a version for me
I need flash to watch YT videos. YT said "You need to upgrade your Adobe Flash Player to watch this video." with a link to download flash. I'm running 10.04 so I see possible choices for myself: 1) a ....
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Aptitude Untrusted source, gpg, keyserver
I have mirrored the Ubuntu archive repository (I must say it's rather huge).
Then, I can apt-get install with no problem, but it prompts with following warning:
WARNING: The following packages ...
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Ubuntu get package source from universe repository, but the correct source is in main repository
I want to get source of `thinkfinger' package,
sudo apt-get source thinkfinger
But, it reports 403 error, and I found that it get the source from xxxx/pool/universe/t/thinkfinger/, but the correct ...
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How to install SmartSVN in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)? JRE installation is suspected
I followed the instructions in How To: Install/Setup SmartSVN in Ubuntu. I followed everything and it didn't start. I also tried to update my JRE:
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin
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Checking installed files in OpenSUSE
How to check what files are installed by an installed package under OpenSUSE?
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How to install a old ebuild while it's no longer in the portage tree? For example, subversion 1.4.4
For compatibility reasons, I want to install subversion-1.4.4-r4 rather than the latest.
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