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Is it possible to package IE addons
We are using SCCM 2007 to automatically deploy our applications packages. On our Desktops, we deliver IE 9.0 (on Windows 7). Some of the web sites people of our company regularly use require specific ...
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Number of packages per repository (major distributions)
Is there a website where i can find how many packages the major distributions have?
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Octave installation errors: require libfftw3.so.3()(64bit), libfftw3f.so.3()(64bit) and libglpk.so.0()(64bit)
I have a RedHat 6 workstation machine and tried to install octave on it.
I have install the epel-release 6.5 package.
When I install the octave by yum, the system complained as below:
Error: ...
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“developer-stable” packages in debian?
I'm pretty new at debian, so bare with me. Some of the packages are pretty old in debian stable. For example, the version of iceweasel (firefox) included is 3.5.
But I don't want the version of ...
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apt-get cannot find any packages
I get this result on my newly installed ubuntu 9.04 netbook remix. I haven't tampered with any apt files at all. It doesnt work for any other packages.
ira@ira-windu100:/etc/apt$ sudo apt-get install ...
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Installing a Java Jar file on Ubuntu 11.10
Is there a way to package a jar file (for example, a .deb) and install it on Ubuntu 11.10. Basically I want to automate the installation of Jar file when I create a Ubuntu VM (using KVM).
Thanks.
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Rpm spec confusion on rights and attributes
What is the difference between %attr and %defattr and are the rights applied recursively to a file structure delivered by an rpm?
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Patch msp into msi package
The latest update of Windows Live Messenger is an msp added to the package. I want to patch a msp into an msi.
Reference download
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E: Couldn't find package logkeys
I am trying to install logkeys but I am having some trouble.
I went to system and checked everything in third party but still no luck. Can someone please help and tell me how to get this package so ...
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Homebrew error with MacVim on OSX Lion
I am trying to install Macvim with Homebrew on an OSX machine running Lion.
After installing iconv at /opt/local/bin/iconv I get the following error in the log:
Error: Can't run ...
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Running Chrome on Slackware
I am new to Slackware and most Linux distributions. I have properly installed the Chrome package, yet like most other packages, I do not think it created a binary for me to run; or at least I don't ...
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Windows Installer not working?
Today I brought an iPad 2 and my computer said that to plug the iPad into my computer I needed the newest version of iTunes. I downloaded the installer and when it got to the end of the set up, it ...
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Finding 32-bit Libraries on 64-bit Linux
I just installed the 64-bit version of Slackware and am setting up some software I was previously running (in 32-bit) from their tarballs.
Currently I'm trying to build lib torrent-0.12.7, which ...
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How can I download ubuntu packages in windows to install them on an offline ubuntu machine?
How can I download ubuntu packages from online repos thhrough windows to install them later on an offline ubuntu machine?
this is related to this question:
Ubuntu repository download iso
if there ...
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libiphone build issues on Debian Squeeze (x64)
I'm trying to build libiphone from source on Debian Squeeze (64-bit). But autogen.sh keeps giving me this:
configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.14.1) were not met:
No package ...
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While trying to install lighttpd on debian squeeze I get: 'Some packages could not be installed.'
I am trying to install lighttpd on my (virtual) Debian 6.0.4 64 bit system but after trying to use this command :
sudo apt-get install lighttpd
I get this error :
Reading package lists... Done
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how to update svn package on RHEL 5.3?
I have 1.4.2 version of svn on my RHEL 5.3 box. I tried updating and I get the following message. What should I do ?
[foo@bar adminui]# svn --version
svn, version 1.4.2 (r22196)
compiled Sep 1 ...
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trouble installing packages in RHEL 5.3
I'm trying to install rabbitvcs, a subversion GUI tool. http://wiki.rabbitvcs.org/wiki/install/fedora.
[foo@bar conf]# yum install nautilus-python pysvn python-configobj python-devel dbus-python ...
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When you do “apt-get install” where are the .deb files stored?
I am trying to copy all of the packages I have installed on one Debian machine to another Debian machine without doing another apt-get install and downloading all of the package all over again.
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Boost interprocess : How to get it via apt-get
How would I install Boost interprocess using a commandline package manager (apt-get)?
I tried apt-cache search and I only got some of the libraries of Boost. I tried libboost-dev and it did not have ...
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How to install experimental packages?
I am running debian squeeze and would like to install the wine experimental package of sid.
My Questions:
Where do I find the package?
Is there a way to include the package into the software ...
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How can I find a missing binary needed under Cygwin?
I am trying to put together a cygwin installation and find that the commandtput is needed, but I have no idea what package supplies it. How can I find the package I need?
please note: I found have ...
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How to install package in Synaptic (Debian) without internet
Package need to connect internet for downloading updates, but computer have not connection to internet. How I can install this package without connection internet?
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Install Firefox 5 on Ubuntu 11.10
I'm running Ubuntu 11.10, and, for web development, need to install Firefox 5 specifically. I know I can do it by hand from the Mozilla download. But I'd like a Ubuntu package. Is one available? ...
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Linux: Compare packages
Is there a simple way to compare all the current installed packages to the defaults (a fresh/clean installation)? So that I can see what packages I removed and which packages I manually installed?
I ...
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How do I control where my Debian package files are installed?
I'm trying to create a debian packge of my PHP application and to upload to my PPA.
I've been reading through the documentation but I am missing one important point:
How do I control in which ...
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Dism and removing a “package” from an Installed windows 7 64bit
I am exploring the possibility of removing "packages" from an Installed Windows 7 64bit. It is difficult to test deployment things when items were never installed to being with.
My understanding so ...
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Can't install gfortran on MacPorts
I'm having trouble trying to install gfortran on MacPorts.
When I type sudo port install gfortran I get this error:
Error: Port gfortran not found
I've tried gfortran45 and gfortran-mp-45 but those ...
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How to remove package which is dependency of gnome?
I wanna remove some applications that are auto-installed with gnome without removing the gnome package. Like epiphany instead of i use another browser.
Hide the icon it the menu isn't answer. Because ...
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How to do compile make make install as permanent install so that it does not give this error?
I was building from source to test one bug i was facing, and I did apt-get remove gstreamer once. Since then when I do gst-launch it throws following:
$ gst-launch --version
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Is it safe to install Ubuntu packages on Debian?
I've found online guides to adding Ubuntu PPAs and repositories to a Debian system. Is this a bad idea? If so, why?
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Why does OS X not have a default package manager? [closed]
Debian has APT. Red Hat has RPM. FreeBSD has Ports. NetBSD has pkgsrc. Mac OS X has MacPorts, Fink, and Homebrew, but those are all third-party package managers. Why does OS X not have a default ...
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Is it usually best to compile on the same machine you want to execute on?
(Note: I'm just using ffmpeg as an example, I have often wondered the same thing with other programs)
I have a build script for ffmpeg which compiles in support for a few non-standard features. Now ...
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What do I need to know before I *try* to install a Debian package on Fedora?
I found this color picker package, gpick, reviewed in a random blog. It uses GTK+ so I think I can use it on Fedora. Unfortunately there is not yum package in the normal repositories. There is an ...
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How do I install the Python module for Gnash?
My actual problem is: How do I install the Python module for Gnash?
But apart from that, what basic concept am I not understanding about installing packages on Linux?
I am used to installing ...
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how to create debuginfo package for Debian/Ubuntu?
I have created rpm packages for a software along with debuginfo.
For Ubuntu/Debian , I have only the software packaged as .deb but don't know how to create debuginfo for them. Please let me know how ...
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where do you find documentation for a Linux package without a man file?
Upgrading to F15 I've really taken a bite of the Linux apple. I'm customizing my desktop environment more than I did under F11. I've added encryption. And since my laptop is a several years old, its ...
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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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Apt: find installed packages with given version number
I have just updated the kernel, meaning I have two sets of kernel files at the moment; and I'd like to use the command line to remove the old one.
I'm aware that I can use apt-show-versions to show ...
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Can't find the right packages for robot3d installation
I have a problem with the installation of robot3d. For ubunutu users it should be an easy task. But it doesn't work. On my system runs kubunutu 11.04.
The installation manual says that I should do ...
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Is there a way to make apt-cyg install manuals as well?
I've recently discovered apt-cyg and I'm loving it, however when I use it to install packages it does not install manuals. For example, on one of my machines I installed Perl when I installed Cygwin, ...
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Linux - using packages and compiling from source
I'm running a Debian web server. Though the packages are up-to-date, current vulnerability detection software (for instance Nessus) found several potential security risks that exist in the software ...
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Where can I find Firefox 5 .deb packages for Debian Wheezy (testing)?
I'd like to install Firefox 5 for Debian Wheezy (testing). Where can I find suitable .deb packages (unofficial is fine)?
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Adding a .deb file to my local mirror (Ubuntu)
I have a local Ubuntu repo mirror and a debian package. Since the package is restricted to use in my local setup, I just want to add it to my mirror rather than as a PPA on launchpad. Therefore, I ...
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Debian - I have removed some of my man page files
I deleted the /usr/share/man/man1 directory and wondered if there was a quick way to recover the manuals for the installed packages.
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Debian package - install to /usr/bin
I have been recently trying to package a small Python utility to put on my PPA and I've almost got it to work, but I'm having problems in making the package install the binary (a chmod +x Python ...
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Solaris Express: is there a command line version of Package Manager?
From documentation I can find (e.g. here http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19963-01/html/820-7799/new-user.html), package manager seems to be only available as a GUI tool (as opposed to a command ...
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Is it possible to speed up ./configure?
To compile a software package on a workstation with many CPU cores (say 12), the configuration stage often takes much longer than the actual compilation stage because ./configure does the tests one by ...
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What is a good strategy to maintain a set of binaries for Gentoo?
There is the world favourites file in which you can record your favourite packages, then there is the where you can record packages and compile whenever. Also there is http://paludis.pioto.org/.
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What package does org.core.databinding belong?
One of my applications requires org.eclipse.core.databinding but I can't seem to a package to install that satisfies this requirement. Does anyone know how to find and install this (if it requires ...
