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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NuGet pack command not copying files to output
I am currently in the process of moving my company's shared class library projects from project references to NuGet package references. I have had success converting all projects except one, which is ...
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Can I temporarily install a package with apt
I frequently find myself interested in trying out a few different packages to solve a problem, to find out which one I prefer, and compare their benefits. A trivial example might be comparing emacs, ...
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Different versions on website and package manager
I am currently using Manjaro as my distro. I wanted to install the pulseeffects package. The trouble is the package manager, Pamac (both GUI and CLI), install an older version (4.6.3-1). While the ...
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Issue with Installing Anaconda packages
I'm trying to install into anaconda a pywinauto package which I downloaded from conda-forge. However I keep getting this error
C:\>C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\python.exe -m conda install C:\Users\...
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On CentOS - how to maintain custom changes after packages get upgraded
I have this applied to my centos 7.6 system
chmod o+rwx /var/spool/cron
(please no hint on that this might not be a good idea) The system is only used for having tomcat runnning a web application - ...
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Not able to uninstall CUDA 10.1 on Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
I am trying to uninstall Cuda 10.1 on Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS but I am not able to uninstall it using the instructions given on nvidia website.
I have installed CUDA 10.1 on Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS using the ...
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Offline installation of Python setuptools_scm in python 2.7
I'm new to Python and we have an installation of Python 2.7 on our Unix server. Our server doesn't have access to the internet and I need to install some modules not already in the Python standard ...
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Uninstall pip dependency with a hyphen at the start of it's name
I accidentally globally installed a package called -igalixir with pip3. When I try to uninstall it with pip3 uninstall -igalixir it interprets -igalixir as a command line option. I have tried ...
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Should my package have its own user by default?
When I create a package that should run a daemon on the user's system (or on an embedded system), is it good security practice to create a user and/or group for that package at install time? I know ...
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Why does yum update says it is "Installing" one of the packages?
When I run yum update, it lists the packages that it will upgrade. For one of the packages, kernel, it lists it under the "Installing" header. All other packages are listed under the "Upgrading" ...
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How do I upgrade Guix?
Guix 1.0.0 was released recently. I have an old version that I installed once and did not use for a long time, so I decided to try 1.0.0.
$ guix --version
guix (GNU Guix) 0.16.0
Copyright (C) 2018 ...
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What causes the APT error "You have held broken packages" when trying to install a newer or older version of some package?
I currently have a Debian 9 system, with a LAMP stack installed from the official repositories (Apache 2.4.25, PHP 7.0.33, MariaDB 10.1.38)
I need to install PHP 7.3 because an application needs it. ...
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Why is my local package version older than the one in the Arch Repositories and still shown as up-to-date
I'm a relatively new user of Manjaro and wanted to try it to always get the latest versions of projects that I use.
However right now, even after executing trizen -Syyu multiple times, trizen -s ...
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Chocolatey throwing errors when installing openvpn
As the title describes, choco install openvpn returns the below error;
ERROR: Unable to import PGP key
C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\openvpn\tools\openvpn_public_key.asc' in the
temporary keyring ...
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sending packet with scapy custom ethernet header
Why sending packet with different ethernet source Mac address never reach target? Note: I used scapy sendp for sending the packet and I have my friends laptop up and connected to network?
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How to get debian apt to find packages correctly to install sudo
I've just installed debian 9 using the full disc image (debian-9.8.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1) to install on VirtualBox in a 64bit environment from a Windows 10 host. During the installation I unchecked the ...
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Provide download repository with signed DEB-packages?
I provide an own download repository for Ubuntu DEB-packages. It comes with a directory structure in style https://mydomain.tld/download/Ubuntu/dists/bionic/main/binary-amd64/
The directory contains ...
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How can I install cc65 through apt?
I am currently running Linux Mint 18.1, which I understand somehow inherits from Debian. I want to install cc65, which seems to have been migrated to testing, but I don't want any other packages from ...
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How to Install package manager (PKG) on a freeBSD release version
I wanted to try out FreeBSD from a live image (on a USB stick) before I installed it. I thought of installing Neofetch to check the system specs. It is a release version but it didn't have the package ...
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dnf has lost track of an installed package
Despite that vim is installed on my Fedora 29 system, the command
dnf search vim-common
returns "No matches found." In contrast, the ...
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Linux Mint 18.1 64 not updating, mintupdate error
Whenever I try to update Linux Mint 18.1, I get the following error from the Update Manager.
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/mintupdate_5.2.1.3_all.deb: subprocess new pre-removal script returned error ...
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How to use yumdownloader to download specific version of a source rpm?
by using folloing command:
yumdownloader --source 'package-name-without-version'
It will only download the newest source rpm of said software.
how do I download specified version of source rpm ...
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Install AIDE in Slackware in 14.2
I want to install aide in slackware but the package manager cannot download aide package. I tried the code below with no luck :
slackpkg install aide
The output shows :
Looking for aide in package ...
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Is there a built-in package management system in Windows?
Does Windows come with a package manager these days? I haven't used Windows in years. I'm hoping it has something similar to yum, apt, pacman, etc. found on various Linux distros. Obviously Windows ...
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Having trouble downloading mysql
So I am downloading mysql for DVWA (https://medium.com/@sinxloud/setup-install-dvwa-into-your-linux-distribution-d76dc3b80357) and I get:
root@kali:~# *sudo apt install mysql-server*
Reading package ...
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How can I create an apt repository mirror on a network that is isolated from the internet?
I have a network that has no internet connectivity from any of the devices. The only way I can get data on it from the outside world is via a USB mass storage device (USB stick, external hard drive, ...
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Tell APK to install a flagged package
I am trying to install megatools on an Alpine Linux container in Docker. This package is flagged because a new version is available.
How can I force apk to install this package despite the flag? I ...
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Can a modified PKGBUILD file persist through updates w/ AUR helper?
I'm using an AUR helper (Yay) on an Arch Linux system. I want to modify the PKGBUILD file for a particular package (ffmpeg-git) prior to compiling the package (I'm enabling hardware encoding/decoding)....
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i3 messed up after Ubuntu update
So after updating my packages today, i3 is messed up. As far as I can tell all my config files are still in the correct place / present, I am not sure why and what on gods green earth is happening. ...
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SumatraPDF via scoop: how to set as default application?
Recently I have been trying out Scoop, which seems great for things like nodejs, yarn, git, etc.. But I am having troubles with applications that would otherwise also create file associations. Like ...
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