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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Package managers for Windows [closed]
You might be familiar with Ninite. What I'd like to know is if there are good alternatives to that software for Windows.
The features I expect:
installs the latest version of software
supports 64 ...
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How do you track which packages were installed on Ubuntu (Linux)?
(This question is very similar to 10458. It was suggested that Fedora and Ubuntu/Debian are different enough to warrant different answers.)
As I use any Ubuntu setup I gradually install a number of ...
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How do I find out which package owns a file?
How do I find out what Debian package a file came from?
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How do I use Windows 10 built-in package manager?
I'm finding Windows 10 package management not very intuitive. Below are my adventures in trying to install VLC, which sounds like a very common test case for a package manager.
Find-Package vlc
Nope
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How do you track which packages were installed on Fedora (Linux)?
(This question is very similar to 6338. It was suggested that it be split from it as Fedora and Ubuntu/Debian are different enough to warrant different answers.)
As I use any Fedora setup I ...
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How can I remove outdated installed versions of Homebrew packages?
How can I remove outdated versions of Homebrew packages that are installed side-by-side with current versions?
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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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How to tell from what Ubuntu or Debian repository a package comes?
On a Debian-based system, including Ubuntu, how can one tell which repository a package will be downloaded from, without actually beginning the download? aptitude show and apt-cache info will show the ...
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Find all user-installed packages
Is there any way to get a list of all user-installed packages on an Ubuntu system, i.e. the packages that were installed on top of the default installed packages?
(The idea is to get a comprehensive ...
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Apple / Mac OS X - Is there a Package Manager like Linux
I am a Linux/UNIX user and love the package management that comes with it. For the most part, I like Ubuntu, but just like anything else, it is the minor things that you live with daily that would be ...
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How to tell apt that dependencies are resolved manually?
Let's say there is a software I don't want to install through apt, but manually. (TeXLive, because I want to use the 2011 release and apt only has the 2009 version.)
Let's say there is another ...
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Can Debian identify rarely used packages?
I'd like to find a tool that could tell me which Debian packages on my system have been rarely or never used, perhaps by looking at file lists and access times. This is to find candidates for ...
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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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How does Ubuntu know what programs exist and can be installed?
I typed the following in a terminal
$ musique
The program 'musique' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install musique
So Ubuntu knows that "musique" is a program,...
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How to list manually installed software packages in Ubuntu? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you track which packages were installed on Ubuntu (Linux)?
Hello,
I'm using apt-get install to install various software on my PC. I have a handful of PCs that needs ...
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How to automatically install updates in linux mint 17.1
I have linux mint 17.1 xfce, and I am wondering how to automatically install updates. Every time a new update is available I have to click on the mintUpdate icon on the panel and enter my password and ...
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Ubuntu error: no candidate ver
Ok...so for some reason by Ubuntu 10.04 partition won't startup anymore. I'm not exactly sure what I did. I have the feeling that I accidentally removed some important packages. However, when I ...
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Is there a way to convert a non-Chocolatey installed program into a Chocolatey installed one?
I have a few programs that have been installed using non-Chocolatey methods (.msi packages, setup.exe, etc.). I have recently started using Chocolatey and would like to use it to update these programs....
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How can I undo or rollback an "apt-get upgrade" command on Ubuntu?
Is there a way in Ubuntu to rollback or undo the last upgrade after doing an apt-get upgrade if you don't like the results?
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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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How to find which package certain command belongs to on CentOS?
For example I can easily find locate command belongs to mlocate.i386 package.
yum search locate
mlocate.i386 : An utility for finding files by name
[mirror@home /]$ rpm -qa | grep locate
mlocate-0.15-...
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Using Yum to install packages for my user only
I would like to be able to install packages by using a package manager (Yum is available on my server), but I don't have root access. I don't technically need root access, I just want the packages to ...
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Why does apt-get sometimes asks for confirmation?
Sometimes it does this:
After this operation, 713kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
And sometimes not, and just assumes 'yes' and downloads automatically (I can'...
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Pacman doesn't download anything - Always 404
I want to install some software on my Raspberry Pi running Arch Linux, but I keep getting error 404.
I did some research and found that I needed to do pacman -Syy and pacman -Syu...
When I run ...
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Continue on error when apt-get encounters an install unable to locate package issue
When I run the following:
sudo apt-get install vim abcde php5-cli
It fails with the following message which is the expected behavior:
E: Unable to locate package abcde`.
I want it to install ...
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How to download .deb package and all dependencies?
For all answers i found about this topic, the solution was to create, in a certain computer A where i need to install the package, a file containing all dependencies it needs and then downloading it ...
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What Linux distribution has the most up-to-date packages? [closed]
Ubuntu's release schedule is just too slow. I want the absolute latest version of everything. Even if it's slightly unstable. Which distribution will give me this without having to manually install ...
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What is the servicing stack and how does it work?
In Windows, there's something called the servicing stack which seems to fulfill the role of a package manager. I don't understand it very well, only that it seems that Component-Based Servicing (CBS), ...
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Emacs 24: Loading a package installed via ELPA
I have just installed the cmake-mode package in Emacs 24 using:
M-x package-install cmake-mode
I can see the package at: ~/.emacs.d/elpa/cmake-mode-20110824, and I can load it using the instruction ...
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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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How do I revert to an alternate version of a package on Ubuntu?
I upgraded to an alpha version of a package in a PPA and would now like to revert back to the official version in the Ubuntu universe. What steps do I need to take?
Edit: The question originally ...
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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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How to install a Tcl package?
I am trying to run a Tcl script that has package require cmdline, and it complains:
can't find package cmdline
How do I find and install another Tcl package into an existing Tcl installation?
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Can pkgsrc, Homebrew, Fink, and MacPorts peacefully coexist?
I heard that some people like to use both Fink and Macports since some packages exist in one and not the other.
Recently I've had trouble building and running packages like GRASS and Digikam w/ ...
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Debian: How to find which repository a package is located in?
I want to install a file libgmp-dev on my Debian Wheezy. Which repository should I add to my sources.list?
In general, how to find in which repository a given package/program is available? Or is it ...
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How to download all of package's dependencies offline
I have a quagmire of a situation that would be so easily circumvented if even one factor could change...but I'm stuck with what I've got.
I have a Windows laptop that I can bring to areas where wi-fi ...
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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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Find if a package is installed
Ubuntu 9.10
I am wondering what apt-cache show emacs.
However, it gives information about emacs but doesn't show if it is currently installed or not.
How can I find if a package and version is ...
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apt and fixing incorect dependencies
I generally compile whatever I need but I am trying to standardize my development platform. I am running a development schroot on ubuntu (base 11.10 : development 12.whatever).
I have installed ...
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GPG Key import error on yum / dnf / fedup upgrade
I'm trying to upgrade my system from Fedora 24 to Fedora 25 using fedup (actually a shortcut to dnf system-upgrade). It fails with some warning about a GPG key.
It offers me to import it, but it ...
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dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python2.6-minimal_2.6.6-5ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack)
I had an issue (Question 199582) which was resolved. Unfortunately I am stuck at this point now.
Running
root@X100e:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
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ArchLinux - yaourt: save updatelog?
When I do yaourt -Syu sometimes there is such a long log in the console so that the buffer gets full and some information is lost. As the information is important sometimes I´d like to save everything ...
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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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iceweasel (firefox) browser re-installation
I uninstalled my browser (iceweasel) from Add/Remove Software option in Kali Linux.At the time of removal it asked for one dependent package also to be uninstalled that I don't remember.
But now when ...
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Fresh install of 64bit Ubuntu needs flash but adobe doesn't have a version for me
I need flash to watch YT videos. YT said "You need to upgrade your Adobe Flash Player to watch this video." with a link to download flash. I'm running 10.04 so I see possible choices for myself: 1) a ....
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Alternative to DISM for package removal on Windows 10 [closed]
Is there any way - manual or automated - that allows for the removal of installation packages from Windows in offline mode (mounted wim) -- other than DISM?
Any automated solution should support the ...
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Package management on an air gapped machine?
I'm working on an air gapped Fedora 20 (x64) machine. Its air gapped because of a source code review, and the company that owns the sources does not want the machine on the Internet.
I'm trying to ...
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