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 "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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Why do Applications Installed through Windows Specific Package Managers seem to Store their Whole Installers Archives in Installation Location [closed]

e.g. Vivaldi (WinGet) As shown above --most if not all WinGet apps seem to follow this trend--, certain apps seem to store themselves or their installer|updater as an archive, within themselves. This ...
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How can I fix the error "The value 'stable' is invalid for APT::Default-Release"?

After an upgrade from Debian Squeeze (stable) to Wheezy (testing), Synaptic fails with the following error: E: The value 'stable' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not ...
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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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Yum autoremove removing packages that are standalone

If I run sudo yum autoremove it outputs what it is going to remove for confirmation. However, some of these packages it is removing are things I want but are not dependencies of anything else... What ...
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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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Cannot resolve dependencies while installing a package

When I try to install mysql-devel package by doing /usr/bin/yum install -y --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=base mysql-devel It fails with the following errors. ... ... --> Finished Dependency ...
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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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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 install a single package from Debian sid?

Take ibus-sunpinyin for example, which isn't existed in the squeeze release. I'm not going to switch the whole system to the sid branch, so, I want to download the single package from sid repository ...
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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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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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Extremely slow pypi package retrieval with i.e. pip

Finding python packages using tools such as pip or easy_install takes very long, up to ten minutes, on my local desktop running Ubuntu 12.10. The same procedures are lightning fast on my cloud servers....
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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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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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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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What is this pip config output?

I have to install and configure Python 3.8.10 on a Windows 7 machine and I'm getting this output for pip config -v list: C:\Users\Username>pip config -v list For variant 'global', will try loading '...
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Zypper: How do I display all packages from a certain repository?

Please tell me, how to let zypper display all installed packages of a certain repository.
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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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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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E: flAbsPath on /var/lib/dpkg/status failed whenever trying to install any software or to update in Kali Linux 2.0

#apt-get update Fetched 26.5 MB in 3min 1s (146 kB/s) Output directory /var/lib/debtags/ does not exist Reading package lists... Error! E: flAbsPath on /var/...
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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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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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What is the official installer for Unix packages on Mac OS?

I'm a bit confused about the installation of standard Unix packages on Mac OS X. For example, I have /usr/bin/svn, which is SVN v.1.4.4, but FinkCommander says svn is not installed. The same holds for ...
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pkg-config doesn't find package file when folder is listed in PKG_CONFIG_PATH

So here is my PKG_CONFIG_PATH contents: /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig and here is the output of locate lv2.pc (lv2 is the library I'm trying to link with) /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/lv2....
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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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Can't install anything on Kali Linux

Whenever I try to install anything on Kali Linux I get the same error. For example running sudo apt-get -f install alien outputs: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading ...
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How do I check what versions of cygwin packages are available using apt-cyg and how do I install them? [duplicate]

I recently wanted to upgrade from perl 5.32 to perl 5.36 via my cygwin terminal using apt-cyg with no success. In particular I tried: apt-cyg install perl=5.36.1-1 The error message was: Package ...
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How to remove/uninstall corrupted winget package?

When I run winget list python I get that Python.Python.3 is installed by winget; however, running python says the executable is missing. winget uninstall --id Python.Python.3 runs the uninstaller but ...
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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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Package 'libpango-1.0-0' has no installation candidate

I'm very new linux and recently In a very bold move I installed only ubuntu 13.04 on m laptop. no I have issue and I wanna install libpango-1.0-0 package with following command : sudo apt-get install ...
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Arch Linux must synchronize certain package data with repository server

How to force Arch linux to synchronize a certain packages data with repository server configured as {repo_title_name} in pacman.conf? I tried sudo pacman -Sy {repo_title_name} and it resulted in: :: ...
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Cannot install afpfs-ng

On Xubuntu 16.04LTS amd64, I cannot install afpfs-ng. This is a HUGE problem for me since my school uses macs and an afp file server, and I only have a PC running Linux and I need a file for the ...
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Debian source.list query

TLDR 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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Find outdated/updatable pip packages

pip freeze shows me the packages installed, but how do I check against pypi which ones are outdated?
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How to easily edit control file in deb package

Is there a way to easily edit control file in deb package. Doesn't matter on which system (Linux, Mac OS X etc.) Maybe someone knows a good script to make it automated?
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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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Zypper on Ubuntu

I'm trying to install packages using zypper but Amazon server that runs Ubuntu seems not to have zypper installed. How can I install zypper? code: zypper install git gcc gcc-c++ error: > ...
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How to install a specific package version in Alpine?

I have a Dockerfile to build a Docker image that is based on Alpine Linux. Now I need to install a package as part of this Dockerfile. Currently I have: RUN apk update && \ apk upgrade &...
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Where do packages get installed in debian systems?

I recently installed expect on my Ubuntu system and cannot find the example code that is supposed to come with it. I searched /usr/lib /usr/bin/lib /lib...no luck. I guess it's about time I learned ...
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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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"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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