The process of installing software, hardware, or peripherals on a personal computer.
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OS X installation on an external HDD
I am planning to install a second OS X on an external HDD, I was wondering when I boot in external HDD will it in any ways affect my first OS X installation? Will it have the permissions to write or ...
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How do I install sass on centos 5.9 with ruby 1.8.7?
I have CentOS 5.9 on an x86_64. I've installed ruby 1.8.7. Whenever I try to install sass I get an Error saying sass requires Ruby version >= 1.8.7. but that's what I have installed. This is the ...
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What could cause sudden incompatibility between a HDD and a motherboard?
(Very) long story short, I just bought an ASRock FM2A55M-DGS mobo and an AMD A8 5600K APU, then installed them in my case with my 500W PSU, my 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD and a 4GB stick of Kingston ...
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How to install pkg in a non-standard location? (OS X)
In brief, my question is this:
How can I install an OS X framework from a *.pkg file somewhere other than under /Library/Frameworks (or /System/Library/Frameworks)?
Background
I want to ...
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Install apps on Pixelsense
My company wants to build an application for the Microsoft Pixelsense (ex Surface). But before we start developing a WPF app we would like to build a small demo app in HTML5 just to show the user how ...
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how to install windows 8 x64 from the dreamspark windows 8 32/64 ISO?
I am a student and I have a Dreamspark account. I have an x64 laptop so I downloaded Windows 8 Professional 32/64 from their site (there was no other version only for x64). After I install the OS, I ...
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Tomcat installation is not working on fedora 15
I am trying to install tomcat on my machine(Linux Fedora 15).
I have followed the below steps
I have entered in to root and typed the following
[root@user ~]# tomcat
bash: tomcat: command not ...
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TFS 2010- KB2182621 doesn't apply, or it is blocked by another condition on your computer
i have installed TFS 2010 in my windows 7 machine with service pack 1. having visual studio 2010 . initially i have connected to to TFS facing trouble in adding TFS server name. so i uninstalled TFS ...
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Reinstalling Office 2013 after hardware and/or software change(s)
If I install a boxed retail edition of Office 2013, what degree of hardware and operating system changes can I make while still retaining my license to use the software?
As for the hardware, here are ...
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Installing Steam on Ubuntu 12.04.2 64bit
So Steam is a 32 bit application, but after I install it on Ubuntu tells me I to type "steam" and "steamdeps" into the terminal to complete installation. But when I type either command, it says I am ...
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Error in Perl installation
I have removed the pre-installed Perl and am trying to re-install it. But when I open a file with vim, I get an error like:
error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so: cannot open shared ...
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How to install oracle jdk7 on debian
I downloaded the binary of tar.gz format from oralce website. I extracted it to /usr/bin/jdk7. How to "install" it and make it the default jdk and jre?
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How to install Wireless Driver from Windows Update with error 80070002?
I am experiencing problems with installing simple WLAN driver for System: Windows 8 64bit. Wireless card is: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285. I tried to install driver manualy even from Windows Update but it ...
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Is it possible to install Mint linux without all third party software?
Or at least customize it.
I want to use it as a development system running on a VM and I don't need Libreoffice, Firefox and most the other stuff in it.
Wanna keep it thin
Thanks
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install basic applications on ubuntu 12.10
I have just installed ubuntu 12.10 (without internet at the time of installation), and even some basic applications like vim are not installed in it.
What should I do so that these applications (which ...
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Why does 64-bit Win7 still warn after having chosen “disable driver signature enforcement”?
I have a test driver that must run on 64-bit Windows 7.
According to MSDN, there are two methods to disable OS to check driver's digital signature:
Method 1. Connect the machine to a debugger, such ...
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How to install Xen (XCP-XAPI) on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server?
How to install Xen (XCP-XAPI) on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server in a cross platform approach (Windows and Linux users)? I need a complete and comprehensive guide on the subject covering all steps necessary ...
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Finding the driver that controls the volume controls
I have a Lenovo Z370 which has touch enabled buttons for mute and volume. The mute button randomly acts as if being pressed turning the sound on and off rapidly.
I've discovered that if I reboot the ...
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How do I install Visual Studio CTP updates?
I'm trying to install the "Visual Studio Tools for Git" extension in VS2012 Ultimate, but it says I need an update. It takes me to a "VS2012 Update 2 CTP 3" page, with 10 separate files (some big).
...
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Resuming Windows 7 from Hibernate after a RAM change?
I ordered a pair of new DDR3 RAMs, I will install them to the empty RAM slots once they arrive.
What would happen if I hibernate my PC, then install the new RAMs, and then wake it up from ...
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Would CL7 RAMs work with CL9 RAMs?
I have a pair of CL7 RAMs installed on my mainboard. I want to add another pair of of RAMs to my system, but since they are old, I can't find CL7 RAMs of same size and brand in the local market. The ...
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How to install Windows 7 on a MacBook Air through Device Sharing from an ISO file?
I am trying to install Windows 7 on a MacBook Air using Boot Camp. I've read that it can be done through Device Sharing with a PC so the Windows 7 DVD will be read in the optical drive of the PC, ...
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Error installing software using make
I'm fairly new to Linux and compiling software from source. I am unsure what the output is telling me and where to look to find the solution to my problem.
I'm trying to install Moscow ML: ...
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How to download source code of any “xyz” package with all dependencies in form of source code / deb file?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS machine . I have another 25 Ubuntu machines to install same software packages .
So , suppose I want to install gimp in 25 systems . If I will apt-get install gimp , it will ...
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How do you minimize software tools installation and configuration on newly installed OS (Linux/Mac OS X)?
Once a year, I re-install my OS. After every install, I have to install a lot of tools (Xcode, Tmux, Iterm2, etc ..). This is time consuming (about 8 hours to re-install everything and restore config ...
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Why aren't all alternatives listed / applied?
I've not used alternatives before, and I may be doing it wrong: I'm certainly not getting the results I expect. I need to use two versions of GCC, and wanted to set them up using alternatives. Here's ...
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Is it possible to register Windows 8 enterprise evaluation
officially* MS doesnt support registering W8 Enterprise evaluation, but I wonder is there might hack to do it.
By this I mean legally purchasing Win8 Pro DVD and using that key to register installed ...
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Install win 7 on laptop having win8? [closed]
I bought sony vaio e series with windows8 but datastage is not working on win8 so want to install win7 on my laptop. How can i do that? Pls guide.
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Windows8 OEM Version redownload/reinstall after format
I bought a Lenovo ideapad y500 with windows 8 pre-installed.
My plan was to format the HDD, install win7 and a fresh win8 with no pre-installed apps etc...
I am now running windows 7 but I can not ...
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How do I upgrade windows 8 on multiple computers with my 5 license? [duplicate]
I have a problem. I bought windows 8 when they had the time where you could get 5 licenses for 40 bucks. I bought it and installed it on my computer. And I downloaded the disk to do it on another ...
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How to install freeBSD on a separate partition?
I have Ubuntu and Windows 7 installed and have a free 63GB partition.
I'm trying to install freeBSD on it. I get a "Add partition" prompt when installing
which requests
Type
Size
Mountpoint
I ...
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The partitions on the disk selected for installation are not in the recommended order
I receive this message when I try to install Windows 7 on a GPT Disk
The partitions on the disk selected for installation are not in the recommended order. For additional information about ...
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How to reinstall hp BIOS
I dual booted my pc, windows 7 and ubuntu 12.04 lts. Both are working, I have no problem. Today i started seeing this error
The hp bios application selected is corrupted or missing. Please
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How do I perform a clean install with an SSD cache
I recently purchased a Sony Vaio T series Ultrabook that has a 24GB SSD cache that uses the ExpressCache software from DiskKeeper. It looks like this is an OEM only solution and I don't see any ...
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Setting up Gentoo : Entering the new Envriontment step (chrooting)
I'm a Windows person trying to get to know Linux and having a go at installing Gentoo on a VM.
I seem to have got stuck at a simple step, Entering the new Environment :
When I enter the first of the ...
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Why do I get the error “You must have Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 installed on your computer before proceeding.” when installing Visual Studio 2010? [closed]
I want to install Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.
I have downloaded VsSDK_sfx.exe from http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/E/D/8ED90A2C-8172-4FCA-B17B-C29C3F0A9732/VsSDK_sfx.exe
When I am trying ...
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Installing SafeNet's Sentinel USB dongle on Windows 7 with non-standard “Documents” directory/folder
I work on a computer where the folder "Documents" is mapped to a network drive (H:). From time to time that causes problems with software installation.
Recently I was installing IAR Embedded ...
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How to properly use `install` command line command in Mac OS X?
I have a makefile which installs a lot of files in my target build directory. Some of these are executable, some are not.
I tested the install command with flags -D -m 644 for non-executable files ...
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Why do I need to restart the computer after installing drivers?
The question is similar to this one except it's for drivers.
Why do I need to restart the computer after installing new drivers? For example, if I did a fresh install of Windows 7, installed audio ...
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Error installing Nvidia proprietary driver on Fedora 18
I'm trying to install the Nvidia proprietary driver (Geforce 525M) but I'm getting this error:
ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.ko'. This is most likely
because the kernel ...
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Erros installing the FFTW library
I need to install the FFTW library on Mac OX X 10.8.
If I execute
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/
in Bash, I get
checking how to get verbose linking output from ...
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OpenNMS doesn't start
I'm trying to run OpenNMS-1.10.8 on my Windows-7, after installing Postgres-9.2 (It works fine from Its client-GUI). I installed OpenNMS.
But when I tried to start it: opennms.bat start on ...
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how to use Environment Modules without root
For some reason, I have a hard time finding a tutorial on how to manage user software install with Environment Modules (http://modules.sourceforge.net/) without root.
the closest thing is ...
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Finding exact information retrieved by Installers
While installing some software via installers or web installers, I want to find out all the data that the app retrieves from my machine (eg machine name, OS type, IP address, MAC address etc) and ...
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Installing Emacs in custom directory (on OS X)
Fed up with emacs22 that came with Xcode, I set out to upgrade to emacs24. I do not want to overwrite the system defaults, and do not want to mess up with it either, so I tried to install emacs in a ...
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Purging and reinstalling Grub on Ubuntu 12.10
I'm having a grub issue here. I have Windows 7 on sda. On sdb I have 3 partitions which I used on my old pc where:
one partition for Ubuntu 11.10
another for Windows XP
the third partition I keep ...
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How do i install Ubuntu next to Windows 8 on a Fakeraid?
I have a desktop computer running windows 8 on 2 SSD's in Raid 0 using Intel Rapid Storage Technology (also known as fakeraid apparently).
I Would like to install ubuntu as second OS (on another ...
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Installing driver from custom file
I recently began reading about the autorun.inf entries on Microsoft's website.
I read the section about [DeviceInstall]. It seems to give the 'device' being inserted the capability to install its own ...
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Having both Visual Studio Professional and Ultimate Installed can I remove only the professional?
I want to free a Visual Studio 2010 Professional license, so my company can use it on another computer, by removing it from "Add/Remove Programs". But I fear it can damage my Ultimate installation. ...
