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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How to make PKGBUILD install to /usr/bin/ with dependencies?
I'm writing a PKGBUILD for meetalva.io so I can submit it to AUR—so others can install it through yaourt.
The binary Alva has two library dependencies, libnode.so and libffmpeg.so, which I need to ...
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Create APK package from existing files
I have a bunch of files in several directories and would like to create an APK package out of them and publish it in a private repository. For dpkg-deb + apt-ftparchive on Debian/Ubuntu or for ...
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How to know which package is the one responsible for installing a given program
MEGA summary: How to search for programs easier when there is no access to GUI internet browser, I have no phone on me etc. Just having CLI in linux.
Let's say I'm using CentOS 7 and I'm looking for ...
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Is there a way to download individual .apk packages from Alpine repos?
I need to install a couple of packages on a device that does not have internet access.
The idea was to download packages, transfer them to the device and then install using apk add --allow-untrusted ...
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friendly-recovery is broken, keeps returning exit status 1
I have Windows Subsystem for Linux running Ubuntu 16.04 (but with Linux Mint 19 packages). At one point, I made the mistake of installing a different kernel, which also installed grub-pc and friendly-...
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MSYS2 and "At least one valid and enabled repository required for this action to succeed."
I have separate MSYS2 32-bit and 64-bit installed on a Windows 8.1 test machine. MSYS2 was acquired from the MinGW-64 download page. Each installation has developer tools installed like GCC, Git, GDB, ...
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hiding or camouflaging software [closed]
We are a small IT service provider and are planning to provide a VPN service to one of our customers.
Since another rival IT service provider also has access to our customer's laptops and if they can ...
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How to copy all installed libraries to another Linux machine?
I am developing C++ on my Linux (Ubuntu) machine and I have installed many libraries both by using apt-get and installing from source. Lets say I would like to recreate my environment on another (...
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Get Source for Arch Linux Package?
In Debian based distributions you can run apt-get source <package_name> to fetch the source code for a package. What is the equivalent for pacman on Arch Linux?
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How to install cmdline on Oracle Linux server
I am running into error "package require cmdline" while making a build and need this package, how can I install this package?
I Looked at How to install a Tcl package? which doesnt exactly tell how ...
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How to install packages on Linux without root-access?
For whatever reasons, root-capable administrators at our organization limit the choice of packages to the vendor's official "base" repository (RHEL).
Not even EPEL is possible, much less IUS.
Our ...
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cygwin package binaries are missing after installation
I've been using the cygwin and its package manager for months now without a problem.
Today I tried to install "curl"+ "jq" (Bin) and even though it did not throw an error and is showing as "...
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pip does not detect user-installed packages after upgrading system python?
I use Python on my Fedora KDE (x64) PC. I used to have Fedora 25, and I had installed Python 3.5 using sudo dnf install python3 and several packages like numpy and scipy using commands like sudo dnf ...
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"gpg: keyserver receive failed: No route to host" error when running 'yay'
I'm fairly new to Arch Linux, and trying to update my packages. I'm running the latest version of Antergos.
Using yay with no arguments, it mostly goes well, up until this:
==> PGP keys need ...
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Python package installation
I have been using Python for years, both versions 2.x and 3.x and both are installed on my machine.
But I am still unable to install packages properly, this is still black art for me !
When I ...
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Does updating CentOS minor version enable you to update software to newer level?
I've been hearing rumors like this:
if you don't update your CentOS minor version, such as from 6.5 to 6.9, some packages is not going to get updates from yum update.
is this true?
If I have to ...
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Installing readahead on Debin 9
Recently installed debian 9 on my computer. I'd like to install the package 'readahead' but seems like I cannot find it. Should I install it from a previous debian version?
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Understanding why apt-get will remove certain packages
Is there any easy way to figure out why apt-get will remove certain packages when doing apt-get remove on others?
I'm removing just a bunch of font files, and all of sudden apt-get thinks that my ...
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List local chocolatey packages and order by installation date
Chocolatey packages tend to accumulate when you have installed them long ago and have stopped using them later. I could go manually through a list of local packages
choco list -lo
But with a long ...
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Using Go installed by non-default golang package on Debian
I am trying to install go 1.8.
The apt package of anything but golang-1.7 doesn't work. Golang-1.7 installs properly, golang-1.8 doesn't. Is the package in the repo wrong/incomplete?
Debian claims ...
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osx homebrew permission issues
I am having a lot of permission issue on my OSX 10.13.4 machine. Homebrew seems to be unable to correctly finish the package installation correctly.
Here is the following exemple for npm but I have ...
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Multiarch on Debian 9 breaks my system
I have a fresh, brand new installation of Debian 9.
After installation was completed, I installed the NVIDIA proprietary driver and everything worked fine.
The problem started when I tried to ...
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Red Hat 7 npm package installing error
I trying install npm but system shows me this error:
[root@myserver etc]# npm install npm@latest -g
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/npm
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/npm
npm ERR! ...
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Where do packages installed with DNF get stored?
With APT (Ubuntu), downloaded packages are stored at:
/var/cache/apt/archives
Where does DNF (Fedora) store downloaded packages?
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How to solve apt error "E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages"
I am running this command:
sudo apt install libqt5svg5-private-dev
I receive the error
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages ...
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Package Manager installation for Linux from scratch (LFS)
I have successfully build Linux based system using Linux from scratch.
Now I want to install Debian (dpkg/apt) package manager for updating my packages.
I have used below mentioned hint as a ...
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make not recognizing opam installed ocamlfind
I'm trying to run make involving a dependency on ocamlfind but when I try to install that, it gives me a circular dependency and a dependency on ocaml-base-nox.
I figured out that I could get ocaml-...
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What is the last part of rpm package release field?
Example 1:
using yum info vim-enhanced I get this:
Name : vim-enhanced
Arch : x86_64
Epoch : 2
Version : 7.4.629
Release : 5.el6_8.1
Size : 2.2 M
Repo : ...
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Accidently Removed mysql-server from kali linux 2017.1. How To Reinstall It?
I have accidentally removed mysql-server from my Kali Linux 2017.1 by using following commands:
sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common
sudo apt-get auto remove
sudo apt-...
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Resume partial dnf package downloads
I have a slow, metered and unstable connection.
I use Fedora 24 and its default package manager is dnf. If downloads fail amidst an install, it will skip packages that have been already download in ...
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