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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What is this pip config output?
I have to install and configure Python 3.8.10 on a Windows 7 machine and I'm getting this output for pip config -v list:
C:\Users\Username>pip config -v list
For variant 'global', will try loading '...
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CentOS cannot load library liblapacke.so.3, yum can't find suitable candidate
I am attempting to run a command:
perl bin/smartpca.perl -i merged.eigenstrat.34string.length.geno -a merged.eigenstrat.34string.length.snp -b merged.eigenstrat.34string.length.ind -o merged....
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How to migrate all packages, settings, user data etc. after updating to a newer Python version? [closed]
I've just installed Python 3.10 on Windows 10 and none of my scripts are working. For instance, when doing jupyter notebook I get
'jupyter' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
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How to read a portfile of a specific package in macports?
I'm trying to find out what a specific port installs and I don't see a way on the ports page to read the portfile.
Background: There is a package called openldap-devel, that I need, but I don't ...
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After updating CPU-Z through winget, the language became chinese
I installed CPU-Z before and it was english. Then discovered winget today. Expecting it will behave close to APT on Debian-based operating systems, I upgraded all of the softwares installed on my ...
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How do package installers make packages available anywhere without adding them to the Environment Variables' path?
Example1:
When I install a package using a package manager such as the JavaScript package manager npm, the package immediately becomes available to run from any directory on any terminal:
$ npm ...
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Starbase Codewright backup file write and remove errors
I am using Codewright 7.0 and am consistently getting an error saying:
Cant copy/move file "C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeWright\cwright.ini to backup file C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeWright\cwright....
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How to remove/uninstall corrupted winget package?
When I run winget list python I get that Python.Python.3 is installed by winget; however, running python says the executable is missing.
winget uninstall --id Python.Python.3 runs the uninstaller but ...
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How to efficiently update a package on debian beyond what is available from the repository?
How to update a debian package beyond what is available with apt-get from the official repository of my version of Debian (9.13). For example Python3.0>Python3.7, or meson0.37.1-1>meson0.54. For ...
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Why do I get a failure to get http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye-updates/InRelease when doing apt update on Debian?
I have gone to install a new program, and when I have done an update I have received several warnings:
W: Failed to get http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye-updates/InRelease Cannot start ...
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AttributeError: 'version_info' object has no attribute '__version__' when trying to load Yolo Model Weights
I have been referred to this platform from Stack Overflow for this question.
I am trying to follow the How to Build Object Detection APIs Using TensorFlow and Flask video (on YouTube).
I cloned the ...
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How to see which package depends on the lib?
I come with a question - how to check which package depends on a given lib? I don't mean apt show [lib] because that shows what dependencies are responsible for a particular lib. And I have a lib (...
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How to specify winget installation folder
I would like to use winget, on Windows 10, as a packet manager, it seems to work pretty well. However I have encountered a big inconvenience: I seem to be not able to specify the location of the ...
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Supervisor is not available. Cannot install it on a fresh Debian 9.13
On our vagrant dev environment, when provisioning (Vagrant box debian 9.13) I install Supervisor using shell provisioner. Always working as expected. That's the content of the script:
#!/usr/bin/env ...
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Why did /usr/bin/php did point to a new version after a reboot
I use ubuntu 20.04 with it's default PHP 7.4
I had to use PHP 7.2 to update the dependencies of an old project, so I used ppa:ondrej/php
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update
sudo ...
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Apt mistakes currently installed `code` package for a different version
I'm using Pop!_OS 18.04 and VS Code. Unfortunately Pop provides slightly broken code packages in its repos and I prefer to use Microsoft-provided code. I have their source added and apt sees it. I ...
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Linux: How to Completely Remove ALL Traces of a Program?
Is there a way to completely remove ALL traces of a program in Linux?
I've researched a lot on this, and I've seen people talk about apt-get remove packagename, apt-get purge packagename, apt-get ...
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Package choices when installing web server
While installing a web server, I've been pondering some serious question...
"Do I really need that package?"
I've noticed that when you install your packages for your web server,
you often ...
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Do I need to code sign my executables to add my application to WinGet?
The WinGet spec lists the Minimal singleton YAML file example (which I will display below as of 6/17/2021) shows a SignatureSha256 value, which I think signifies that the executables must be signed... ...
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Debian 10: The following packages have unmet dependencies
I'm trying to install some software as part of a project I am working on for a client.
The software is an apt/deb package. The downloads page for this package state that it is designed to work with ...
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Reprovision a Windows 10 package
I've mistakenly unprovisioned the Paint 3d (MS Paint) appx package using
Get-appxprovisionedpackage -online | where-object {$_.packagename -like "*paint*"} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage -...
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Debian VPS : can't apt-get update
I have debian on a VPS and when I do "sudo apt-get update" it failed like this :
Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch http://apt.pm2.io/ubuntu/dists/stable/InRelease Could not ...
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Get-InstalledModule -AllowPrerelease not listing the prereleases?
I'm currently working on a script that automatically updates a package with error handling. I also want it to recognize prerelease packages. For that, I'm using the "Get-InstalledModule" ...
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what packages does an `apt` source.list provide?
Is there a way to tell what packages are provided by an /etc/apt/sources.list* entry?
I see that apt-cache policy '*' lists all packages provided by all sources, which could be parsed, but that's... ...
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Poetry add <package> returns AttributeError
I am trying to create a Python package using poetry. I haven't been able to replicate the steps described in
documentation. When I try to add a dependancy, e.g.
poetry add pendulum
I get
jan@jan-XPS-...
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Dependency error when installing discord
Guys I'm trying to install discord on my Kali Linux, but I'm getting this error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading state ...
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Debian: Remove all packages installed during a specific date
On a specific day, I installed lots of packages - that I didn't keep a good track of - on my Debian machine. Now I need to remove all this mess, because what I was trying to install simply didn't work ...
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pacaur not installing latest version of package
Using Manjaro and trying to upgrade the cura package to the latest (shown as 4.8.0-1 on AUR at the time of writing). My installed version is 4.7.1-2, and I cannot get it to upgrade.
> pacaur -Q --...
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my terminal is not recognizing my flask command after i installed flask
I ran into a problem with the terminal, it didn't recognize my flask command!
the whole issue started with
WARNING: The script isort is installed in '/Users/bigdad/Library/Python/3.8/bin' which is not ...
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Clone Apt Packages Offline
I'm trying to figure out how can I clone apt (.deb) packages from one machine to another without using a remote repository meaning only by transferring files from one machine to the next.
From what I ...
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