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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Appx Package without install location
Recently I encountered some HD issues and I was forced to replace the affected drive.
Unfortunately, several Microsoft store apps were stored on this very drive.
I wanted to reinstall the affected ...
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How "clean" are Chocolatey installs and uninstalls?
I have installed Chocolatey and tested it by installing Docker Desktop.
All is well and good, but I wonder, if I uninstall Docker Desktop through Chocolatey, will the package manager delete everything ...
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Invoke script, installed into NixOS
I need to create shell script inside NixOS, and then use it declaratively. For such situation, NixOS can provision shell script inside the system, but I bumped into troubles of invoking this script ...
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Command not found, even though it is installed on debian
# mbr-install
bash: mbr-install: command not found
# apt install mbr-install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package ...
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Does Chocolatey has “brew tap” equivalent?
I was wondering if chocolatey package manager has something equivalent to brew tap? In the sense that as a developer I can host some template file(formula) on GitHub and add it to my chocolatey CLI ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 - Unresolved issue occured while calculating upgrade
I'm trying to upgrade my Ubuntu distro from 18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS and I get this error message while it's calculating data,
An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.
This was ...
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should I get rid of mutiple git installations, if so how? (OS X)
I hope the title isn't confusing, but I seem to have accumulated a couple of different versions of git in various directories over the years. I'd like to clean it all up and just have one version, and ...
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Common way to install packages in Windows
I'm not an expert on Windows, so my apologies if this question is either stupid or not of a good quality.
I have a small software pipeline in Ubuntu (16.04 LTS) which is composed of few libraries (C++...
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RHEL yum Package Installation from Repository of Differing Release Number
I have two RHEL machines. One runs RHEL 6.9, and the other runs RHEL 7.7.
I have access to local copies of both the RHEL 6.9 and the RHEL 7.7 repositories. This is the only repository access I have.
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List only packages specifically installed by the user with apt (or other pkg man). Without dependencies nor default packages. Without using History
So basically only the ones mentioned in commands such as sudo apt install X etc...
I have not seen any post on this. Only about all installed packages on the system regardless of them being ...
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Issue with kali-menu installation in Kali Linux
I got the following error message when trying to install kali-menu package in Kali Linux.
root@DarkShadow:~# apt-get install kali-menu -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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A PPA "source" only lists a subset of the available packages
I added this PPA a long time ago but when I'm trying to install the polo-file-manager package from Tony George it wasn't available when doing an apt install, so I went and removed the PPA and then re-...
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yum giving error "[Errno 111]" Connection refused on RHEL
I am on RHEL server 7*. When I use yum (any command even help) I get this line every time.
[Errno 111] Connection refused
Things work, but lines like this keep coming.
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Installing Apache 2.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 instead of the default Apache 2.4
I want to install Apache 2.2 on Ubuntu 14.04. But I can’t find this version package in apt-cache policy apache2. How install it? Where to find it? Can this be done?
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Debian third party packages and deriv-archive-keyring
I'm researching how to supply some software as a Debian package. I intend to act as a third party supplier, and forgo adding the sources to Debian through a sponsor. Users must add the appropriate ...
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Match wildcard during zypper remove?
I'm trying to remove an old kernel from openSUSE. The openSUSE version is Tumbleweed (20191128), and the old kernel is 5.1.16.
The manpage for Zypper is here. It looks like Zypper supports wildcards (...
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How to find out which packages are not required in a minimal system?
What I am trying to achieve:
produce minimal OS installations for Debian, Ubuntu and CentOS
keep enough packages, or be able to install such for Docker
How to know - beyond blind trial&errro - ...
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Installing R on RHEL
Hi I'm trying to install R on this RHEL 8 machine, I have been trying to check a lot of other answers but none of them seem to be helping. I am listing my code and errors below
[ec2-user@`]$ cat /etc/...
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Missing SELinux dependency for snapd
Following the instructions here (computingforgeeks.com) to install snap on CentOS 8, I run into the following snag when I run sudo dnf -y install snapd:
Error:
Problem: package snapd-2.42.1-1.el8....
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broken debian package and fixing with apt-get -f
What exactly happens when we install a deb package that ends up as a broken installation, and how come apt-get -f remedies the situation (instead of this happening during the installation to begin ...
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debian buster sudo apt-get upgrade does nothing
I just installed Debian buster on 30 sep. apt-get works very well and I am able to update my system. But running apt-get upgrade always does nothing.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency ...
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What is a good way to organize packages, bins, libraries, and dependencies for code development?
I am looking for a way to manage the packages and resources needed for different coding projects. I'm not sure that this is the correct place to ask this question but couldn't find a place that ...
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How to correctly install my released python package?
I released my package reclib on PyPI
But when I try to pip install reclib, it gives me error:
WARNING: No metadata found in /opt/conda/lib/python3.7/site-packages
ERROR: Could not install packages ...
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Update management of large clusters of Ubuntu servers
is there any software that may be used for managing updates on group of Ubuntu machines? I would like to let some test machines get updated with all available ubuntu updates, then test the resulting ...
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How to install bzlib.h package without root privilege / yum command to install a software in home directory on remote server
I am trying to install a package that includes "bzlib.h" so that I am able to install the "AmberTools14"/"Amber14" software in my home directory on a remote server, but since I don't have root access, ...
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Can I install the python3 version of packages without having to specify python3 in their names?
I am contributing to an open source project and I am currently migrating it from python2 to python3 and I have a list of required_packages which includes: python-mysqldb and python-dev. Because of the ...
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How does Ubuntu version upgrade works (technically)?
I know that when I update my packages (programs, kernel, etc) it syncs from the repository and if there is a newer version updates to it. I think that OS updates are the same, however I don't know ...
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How do I install all dependencies automatically?
For example, I have "winehq-devel_4.12.1_buster_amd64", which requires "wine", which requires "wine-development", and so on.
(I mean .deb files here, being installed by Package Manager)
How do I ...
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Can not install mysql-server-5.7 on Ubuntu
I want to install mysql-server on my Ubuntu machine with
sudo apt install mysql-server but the installation fails with this error
This installation of MySQL is already upgraded to 5.7.26, use --...
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Errors while removing packages
I tried to remove packages using
sudo apt autoremove
But it shows the following error
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 ...
