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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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Package Python Script and Modules Into .rpm
I have a command line python script that I'd like to distribute. Being a PHP/Web guy, packaging software like this is a bit new to me.
The python script is simple, currently is run like this.
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The Ubuntu package development environment
I've read a lot (e.g., http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/, http://developer.ubuntu.com/resources/) but still can't figure out the following questions.
Is there cutting-edge Ubuntu package ...
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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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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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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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New install indicator while install updating on Ubuntu
In the update manager of ubuntu I see several libraries marked with New Install.
I don't know what is the benefit I can get from that New Install?
What if I just want a normal upgrade, not a New ...
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Issue with plesk installation in Ubuntu - apt packages error
OS: Ubuntu 12.04
Plesk 11
Hi all,
I have a problem during installation of plesk when plesk wants to install more packages from apt.
385 packages need to be installed.
49 packages need to be ...
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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 to reinstall all .deb packages?
I have installed a number of packages with much pain. (I've a slow internet connection)
Now I want to reinstall Ubuntu (I use 10.10), but I don't want to download all the packages again.
I have ...
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How can I perform a full texlive installation (all packages) in CentOS?
Title say it all, how can I install texlive and all the packages so I can run tex2pdf on CentOS? I'm rather used to Ubuntu and all this yum business is driving me nuts.
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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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How do I change OSX package install directory?
It drives me nuts that every time I download a binary to run on OSX that it wants to install in system directories. ~/Applications is a perfectly fine place to install and doesn't require blindly ...
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How can I skip the root password prompt when installing mysql-server?
I am writing a bash script that involves installing the mysql-server package on Ubuntu. The package interactively asks the user for the root MySQL password desired, however this is not good for me as ...
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How to fix broken dependencies when installing old/archived packages
I am trying to install opencv version 2.1. My codebase requires opencv 2.1, so upgrading is not an option. Specifically, I am trying to install the packages: libhighgui2.1 libcvaux2.1 libcv-dev ...
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Searching for packages that are (not) from a certain repository URL
I basically want to do the same thing, as asked for here, which is searching for packages that a re not from a certain repository. Just like this:
aptitude search "?installed?not(?origin(Debian))"
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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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Ubuntu dependency problems after `do-release-upgrade`
I recently performed do-release-upgrade, and it appears to have broken some of my packages. I can't properly apt-get autoremove or apt-get upgrade any more.
$ sudo apt-get install -f
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Errors ...
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having dependency issues while installing a package in Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
I am trying to install one package but it depends on some other packages. While installing it aborts and tells me the following:
Depends: python (>= 2.6.6-7~) but 2.6.6-3+squeeze7 is to be ...
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Uninstall python package and restore to previous setup?
So I'm still pretty new to Python so I don't understand all the package and module setups on my computer yet, but I had what I'll consider a good setup because everything was working fine. There were ...
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How to create a redistributable one-file package with a browser?
I want to create a single-file package that when clicked would start a browser embedded in itself and then open a specific web page. I'm aiming for Windows XP and up. What tools are necessary to ...
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postgresql broken Ubuntu 12.04 packages
After system update about a week ago apt-get got broken dependencies on my 12.04 LTS. I can't remove the package by apt-get remove postgresql-9.1 I tried both
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo dpkg ...
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Gnu/Linux package manager, multiple versions, no root privilege
I'm looking for a Gnu/Linux package manager, that can help to package, distribute, install sofware (actually scientific libraries), like this:
do not required root privilege, for example, install in ...
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CentOS: safe to yum reinstall after removing 32-bit packages?
as per the CentOS FAQ on removing 32-bit packages present in a 64-bit install, is it safe to perform the last step:
You may also want to do this:
yum reinstall \*
The reason is that ...
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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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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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Can't install openssl-devel because of unmet dependencies
I need to recompile php, in order to do that I needed openssl-devel but when I tried installing it, I got the following error:
# apt-get install openssl-devel
Reading Package Lists...
Building ...
