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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Do pacman builtin search y (own feature) by limiting only to a certain rep
How doing pacman search natively (only by its own feature) to limit only to a certain repo name?
tried all so failed
pacman --noconfirm --needed -Ss 'extra.*python'
pacman --noconfirm --needed -Sl '...
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Kali linux does not update and does not upgrade
Kali Linux has some problems, can you help me in detail to solve these problems? I am using Kali Linux version 2020.2.
I write sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade, it doesn't update and doesn't ...
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Debian unstable: can't install deborphan
When trying to install package deborphan on Debian unstable / sid I get the following error:
usr@hst ~ [100]> sudo apt install deborphan
Package deborphan is not available, but is referred to by ...
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Usrmerge error armbian
I'm trying to install linux on a old Player TV Box from amazon.
For this I have get my CPU (s905w) and armbian for this configuration, I'm now on linux with my machine.
Problem :
I cant upgrade or ...
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Installing latest docker compose release on debian
I am trying to install an up-to date docker compose on debian so I can use the new include keyword and am getting a version mismatch between the apt info and docker compose version.
I have added the ...
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apt-rdepends php8.2 on ubuntu focal (20.04) depends on media-types
I am trying to install php8.2 on an offline Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) system.
I found a guide on OSTechNix to download a package and its dependencies.
My first attempt at downloading php8.2 dependencies, ...
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Unable to download specific version of libxdmcp from Ubuntu archives
I'm trying to install 3D printing software (Klipperscreen) on a 2012 Macbook Pro running Linux Mint 21.3. The installation script tries to fetch libxdmcp-dev_1.1.3-0ubuntu5_amd64.deb (http://archive....
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Are Mac users stuck with App Store options only for package installers? If so, can you install DNF or YUM on a Mac manually?
I run the latest OS. I am trying to learn DNF and would rather not pay to get virtual machine software to do it.
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Does bootstrap-vcpkg.bat affect anything outside the current directory?
I've read https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcpkg/get_started/get-started?pivots=shell-cmd for instructions how to set up and configure vcpkg.
Does bootstrap-vcpkg.bat affect anything outside the ...
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How can I install python3-dev for armhf using debian multiarch?
I also posted this question here https://stackoverflow.com/q/77693879/7926069 but was told this site may be a better fit so I crossposted. Hope that's okay!
I have been going in circles trying to ...
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Install a shell script with homebrew -- to install darktable (1_install_hb_dependencies.sh)
I want to build darktable from source w/ homebrew, like so: doc on Github. I have installed homebrew (step 0). Now I'm stuck at the first step where I need to install ''required homebrew packages'', i....
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Ubuntu/Debian/Raspberry Pi OS based standalone offline installer to include dependencies
I'm looking at ways to create an installers for a C++ binary (but could be any other software in future) to include dependencies such that the installer can be run standalone and offline by an end ...
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Cannot bypass GPG check to reinstall packages/update on Debian 7
I am trying to reinstall some packages on a debian 7.11
# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 7.11 (wheezy)
Release: 7.11
Codename: ...
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PowerShell - Cannot uninstall the Microsoft.HEIFImageExtension on several Win10 systems
I have a PowerShell command line to uninstall the HEIF image extension component provided by default on Win10/Win11 OS. This command is the following:
get-appxpackage Microsoft.HEIFImageExtension -...
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Debian11 no longer starting into desktop, after (presumed) improper shutdown - causes/fixes?
Every time I restart the VM, Debian11 (guest OS) boots into console. I can login fine. If I then do startx, it does open one little GUI-looking terminal on a screen-filling black background, no normal ...
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Why are there extra packages listed by Chocolatey and can I delete them?
On opening the choco lib folder, I can see a lot of files. The only stuffs I remember installing were python and ffmpeg, and Chocolatey of course. But what are the rest? And there are 3 instances of ...
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How come rebuilt packages are seen as a downgrade in Debian / APT based distros?
I wanted to look into building packages for Debian, but the process is not as straightforward as in other distributions it seems, when it comes to writing the instructions on how to build the package, ...
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Remove package from winget package list without uninstalling
Synopsis: I used Winget to install an application that had an auto
updater, such as Discord. The issue here is that if the Discord app
upgrades itself,the Winget will be unable to detect the change in
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ERROR while installing PyAudio in Rocky Linux 9
I just installed Rocky Linux 9 and my os contains "Development Tools" packages plus the required libraries for development and installing PyAudio such as portaudio and portaudio-devel, which ...
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How to search several words in pkg (FreeBSD)
I want to search several words in FreeBSD packages using pkg command
Example, if I want to search all packages with the words "web server" in the description, someone would try this:
pkg ...
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Debian source.list query
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Is it okay to edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change the entry from deb http://ftp.gb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-security main contrib non-free to deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ ...
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How can I deploy installed software setup one distribution to another
I have a Ubuntu system with manually installed packages, obtained from a variety of sources such as apt repositories, snaps, and standalone packages. I'd like to distribute my list of software to ...
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apt-offline to add custom .deb files to apt update list
I have .deb files that were manually generated.
With apt-offline install I can synchronize them with apt cache. However if I try apt install <package-name> it doesn't find the synchronized deb ...
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Can't find nitrogen package for Alpine Linux
I can't find the "nitrogen" package for Alpine Linux, they changed the name (for example the change of xorg-xinit to just xinit) or there is a better alternative?
I tried to find by the ...
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Getting this error when trying to use flatpak, “No remote refs found similar to ‘flathub’”
I am trying to use flatpak and whenever I try and install anything I get this error stating:
error: No remote refs found similar to ‘flathub’
I have googled this error and it seems that this occurs ...
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"Unable to locate package" error in Crunchbang
I am running Crunchbang as a virtual machine. I ran
sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get install calibre. It says
E: Unable to locate package
How to resolve this? I have already tried the steps ...
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apt refuses to update version for some packages
To preface: some crazy breakage occurred on my debian 11 system. To fix I had to boot a live disc, mount my root partition, copy /usr/lib from the live medium to the root, chroot, and manually ...
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Installing an RPM package on a server without any access to the internet
I have a minimal CentOS server with no access to the internet. Let's call it server A.
My target it to build a shell script file to install a specific version of a local RPM file for an application. ...
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How to remove multiple identical installed RPM packages?
A host crashed near the end of some package update, and now I have an inconsistency I'd like to fix:
rpm -Va complains about dependency packages would be missing, but those packages are installed!
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Search Python packages that no other packages depend on
How can I find all Python packages that no other packages depend on? I tried pipdeptree to get dependency trees, but I'm not sure if this is a good starting point and my impression is that it's ...
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