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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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CentOS cannot load library liblapacke.so.3, yum can't find suitable candidate

I am attempting to run a command: perl bin/smartpca.perl -i merged.eigenstrat.34string.length.geno -a merged.eigenstrat.34string.length.snp -b merged.eigenstrat.34string.length.ind -o merged....
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How to migrate all packages, settings, user data etc. after updating to a newer Python version? [closed]

I've just installed Python 3.10 on Windows 10 and none of my scripts are working. For instance, when doing jupyter notebook I get 'jupyter' is not recognized as an internal or external command, ...
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How to read a portfile of a specific package in macports?

I'm trying to find out what a specific port installs and I don't see a way on the ports page to read the portfile. Background: There is a package called openldap-devel, that I need, but I don't ...
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After updating CPU-Z through winget, the language became chinese

I installed CPU-Z before and it was english. Then discovered winget today. Expecting it will behave close to APT on Debian-based operating systems, I upgraded all of the softwares installed on my ...
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How do package installers make packages available anywhere without adding them to the Environment Variables' path?

Example1: When I install a package using a package manager such as the JavaScript package manager npm, the package immediately becomes available to run from any directory on any terminal: $ npm ...
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Starbase Codewright backup file write and remove errors

I am using Codewright 7.0 and am consistently getting an error saying: Cant copy/move file "C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeWright\cwright.ini to backup file C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeWright\cwright....
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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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How to efficiently update a package on debian beyond what is available from the repository?

How to update a debian package beyond what is available with apt-get from the official repository of my version of Debian (9.13). For example Python3.0>Python3.7, or meson0.37.1-1>meson0.54. For ...
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Why do I get a failure to get http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye-updates/InRelease when doing apt update on Debian?

I have gone to install a new program, and when I have done an update I have received several warnings: W: Failed to get http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye-updates/InRelease Cannot start ...
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AttributeError: 'version_info' object has no attribute '__version__' when trying to load Yolo Model Weights

I have been referred to this platform from Stack Overflow for this question. I am trying to follow the How to Build Object Detection APIs Using TensorFlow and Flask video (on YouTube). I cloned the ...
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How to see which package depends on the lib?

I come with a question - how to check which package depends on a given lib? I don't mean apt show [lib] because that shows what dependencies are responsible for a particular lib. And I have a lib (...
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How to specify winget installation folder

I would like to use winget, on Windows 10, as a packet manager, it seems to work pretty well. However I have encountered a big inconvenience: I seem to be not able to specify the location of the ...
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Supervisor is not available. Cannot install it on a fresh Debian 9.13

On our vagrant dev environment, when provisioning (Vagrant box debian 9.13) I install Supervisor using shell provisioner. Always working as expected. That's the content of the script: #!/usr/bin/env ...
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Why did /usr/bin/php did point to a new version after a reboot

I use ubuntu 20.04 with it's default PHP 7.4 I had to use PHP 7.2 to update the dependencies of an old project, so I used ppa:ondrej/php sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php sudo apt-get update sudo ...
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Apt mistakes currently installed `code` package for a different version

I'm using Pop!_OS 18.04 and VS Code. Unfortunately Pop provides slightly broken code packages in its repos and I prefer to use Microsoft-provided code. I have their source added and apt sees it. I ...
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Linux: How to Completely Remove ALL Traces of a Program?

Is there a way to completely remove ALL traces of a program in Linux? I've researched a lot on this, and I've seen people talk about apt-get remove packagename, apt-get purge packagename, apt-get ...
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Package choices when installing web server

While installing a web server, I've been pondering some serious question... "Do I really need that package?" I've noticed that when you install your packages for your web server, you often ...
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Do I need to code sign my executables to add my application to WinGet?

The WinGet spec lists the Minimal singleton YAML file example (which I will display below as of 6/17/2021) shows a SignatureSha256 value, which I think signifies that the executables must be signed... ...
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Debian 10: The following packages have unmet dependencies

I'm trying to install some software as part of a project I am working on for a client. The software is an apt/deb package. The downloads page for this package state that it is designed to work with ...
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Reprovision a Windows 10 package

I've mistakenly unprovisioned the Paint 3d (MS Paint) appx package using Get-appxprovisionedpackage -online | where-object {$_.packagename -like "*paint*"} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage -...
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Debian VPS : can't apt-get update

I have debian on a VPS and when I do "sudo apt-get update" it failed like this : Reading package lists... Done W: Failed to fetch http://apt.pm2.io/ubuntu/dists/stable/InRelease Could not ...
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