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Can't install cairo-devel and pango-devel on Centos 8.1 (for Tesseract)
In order to compile the Tesseract Training programs from source code, the development packages for pango and cairo must be installed. However, I'm having trouble installing them on Centos 8.1.
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Proton VPN is not installing due to CURL error! Why?
I have Fedora 38 and I want to install protonVPN. I followed the guide and downloaded the respective rpm package but when I try to install it or update dnf I receive this error:
[CODE]ProtonVPN Fedora ...
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Unable to update with dnf because of a GPG check FAILED
Since last week I can´t update anything. If I try sudo dnf update, the process starts normally but then I get the following error:
error: Verifying a signature using certificate ...
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How to update Fedora Xfce to the latest version (37)
I've got a Fedora Xfce version 35 install that has been barking at me about being past the date for support. So I installed all the updates that were available, but I still see that I'm on version 35 ...
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my DNF repo (Fedora37) no longer functions. I think I need to reinstall/repair it. Can I reinstall a fresh Fedora dnf repository?
Yesterday, I upgraded my Fedora35 to Fedora37. Prior to the upgrade, it informed me that python2.7 (which is intentionally still on my Linux machine) would be removed. I hesitated at that (we still ...
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Fedora: dnf keeps showing "European Southern Observatory RPM repository" message
Whenever I use sudo dnf to install a package on Fedora 36, this message always appears:
European Southern Observatory RPM repository fo 0.0 B/s | 0 B 00:06
Errors during downloading ...
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I'm trying to install MariaDB but MySQL gets installed instead
[root@sweet91 playbook]# dnf install mariadb
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for x86_64 - 22 kB/s | 2.4 kB 00:00
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for ...
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Canary rollout of RPM packages
I have a process of building rpm packages and pushing those to nexus. And I have users that have my repository configured in their /etc/yum.repos.d/. I want to have control over availability of my ...
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How to search the DNF package manager for all available versions of a package?
What I want to know is how to search for all available versions of a particular package.
It might help to understand my situation to understand exactly what I want to do.
I develop software for ...
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How to install libc++.so in Fedora
I wanted to use aapt on my C the error code was:
error while loading shared libraries: libc++.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
With some research I found out that libc++....
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How can I force dnf in Fedora 35 to download new GPG keys?
I am suddenly unable to update Keybase through dnf. I am getting the following error:
Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Upgrade 1 ...
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How can I remove conflicting DNF package after a repo remove?
I removed a repo that I was not using anymore. I thought I did things properly by removing all packages provided by that repo before removing the .repo file with rm. Alas, it seems that it wasn't the ...
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Why does `dnf updateinfo` just output the "Last metadata expiration check"
I am writing a program to control dnf, and it needs a list of available updates for further processing.
The command dnf updateinfo seems what I want, I tried it on CentOS 8 Stream, but it just outputs ...
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CentOS server unusable after interrupted dnf update
I was running a dnf update on a CentOS 8 machine and it was stuck, so I killed the process after half an hour or so. Now nothing seems to work, even sudo is inaccessible. I've power-cycled the server, ...
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How I can lock a package to a minor version in Fedora 33?
I have a VM running Fedora 33 but recently I find out the VM crashing because the kernel was updated to the latest version (see dnf info kernel below). I have also found that kernel 5.8.x makes the VM ...
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How to install jsoncpp on CentOS 8
I have tried:
$ sudo dnf install jsoncpp
Last metadata expiration check: 0:31:37 ago on Fri 17 Jul 2020 02:02:47 PM CST.
No match for argument: jsoncpp
Error: Unable to find a match: jsoncpp
And I ...
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On Fedora - how do I find (configuration-)files which have been altered since installation?
I'm currently observing a problem with my onboard sound device (popular NUC device) and I found no fix for this yet. So I'm currently "hoping" I've made some modifications on some configuration file ...
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How to know which package provides a header file via “dnf” command
I know dnf provides could find a package which includes a specific command, for example,
$ dnf whatprovides g++
Last metadata expiration check: 0:57:32 ago on Wed May 20 09:43:51 2020.
gcc-c++-9.3.1-...
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Missing RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-32-x86_64 during system upgrade
While trying to run sudo dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=32 I got the following error right after all the packages have downloaded and are about to install:
warning: /var/lib/dnf/...
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Centos8 dnf update transaction check error
dnf update giving me this error, after upgrading my centos7 to centos8
Error: Transaction check error:
file /usr/lib64/libgdbm_compat.so.4.0.0 from install of gdbm-libs-1:1.18-1.el8.x86_64 ...
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Which package provides qmake on Fedora?
I'm having trouble determining the Qt package that provides qmake on Fedora 31. I already installed qt5-designer qconf qt5-devel qt5-qtbase qt5-qtbase-devel qt5-qttools qt5-qttools-devel (and ...
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CentOS 8 - lightDM installation
I am unable to install the lightDM display manager in CentOS 8. When trying to use the command
$sudo dnf install lightdm
I get the error
Problem: conflicting requests
nothing provides lightdm-...
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VirtualBox removal stuck in purgatory
I screwed up the uninstallation of VirtualBox on Fedora 30 and now it is "not installed" but I cannot reinstall it (the intent was to downgrade to 5.* because of an issue with the kernels). The files ...
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dnf in Fedora 27 is throwing a python error
I am looking to upgrade from Fedora 27 however, DNF has broken somehow.
$ dnf upgrade
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/bin/dnf", line 58, in <module>
main.user_main(sys.argv[1:], ...
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dnf remove wants to remove too many packages, many that are unrelated
Sometimes when trying to remove a package via 'dnf remove package-name', dnf will list a lot of other packages as 'dependencies' and try to remove them too. I have found that it even does this with ...
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How can I change the number of kernels retained when updating in Fedora?
When running 'dnf update' the system will only keep 3 of the previous kernel versions installed. Once I attempt to install the 4th update then dnf wants to remove the oldest installed kernel. How can ...
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dnf has lost track of an installed package
Despite that vim is installed on my Fedora 29 system, the command
dnf search vim-common
returns "No matches found." In contrast, the ...
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Fedora 27 to Fedora 28 upgrade gives following message
I am trying to upgrade my Fedora 27 (using dnf) to Fedora 28, but the last month I keep got that message error:
sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=28
Before you continue ensure that your ...
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pip does not detect user-installed packages after upgrading system python?
I use Python on my Fedora KDE (x64) PC. I used to have Fedora 25, and I had installed Python 3.5 using sudo dnf install python3 and several packages like numpy and scipy using commands like sudo dnf ...
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Installing a package from Fedora 28 that is missing from Fedora 29 using Rawhide
I want to install texlive-scheme-full using Fedora 29 Rawhide. During installation one package cannot be found:
Error:
Problem: package texlive-scheme-full-7:svn44177-15.fc29.noarch requires ...
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Where do packages installed with DNF get stored?
With APT (Ubuntu), downloaded packages are stored at:
/var/cache/apt/archives
Where does DNF (Fedora) store downloaded packages?
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Can't find package 'rg' (RipGrep) on Fedora 26
As an alternative to ag ("the silver searcher"), I'd like to install rg (RipGrep) on my Fedora 26, but I can't find it with
dnf search ripgrep
dnf search rg
Do you know a community repository that ...
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How to install gcc 6 on Fedora 26
I'm trying to build CORE Network Emulator from source and I seem to have hit a gcc7 bug, so I want to install gcc 6.4.1 but when I try to run dnf install gcc-6.4.1 I get the error No package gcc-6.4.1 ...
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Resume partial dnf package downloads
I have a slow, metered and unstable connection.
I use Fedora 24 and its default package manager is dnf. If downloads fail amidst an install, it will skip packages that have been already download in ...
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Get freshest metadata in dnf on Fedora
I noticed that when I clean dnf's metadata and then run dnf upgrade to fetch new metadata and check for upgradeable packages multiple times, it tends to often download different amounts of data which ...
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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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How to satisfy configure dependencies?
This question is related to my other question configure warns that installed libraries are missing . That question was specific to xscreensaver, but this is a more generic question RE: configure using ...
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Fedora kernel panic after system update
I have Fedora 24 installed and it uses packagekitd to install updates when I shutdown the system.
It usually goes fine, but I left it running after work last Friday. When I came back today it was ...
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How to debug "broken dependencies" during dnf update?
When trying to update packages using dnf, some packages are skipped because of "broken dependencies":
$ sudo dnf update
Last metadata expiration check: 0:07:38 ago on Mon Feb 6 12:05:50 2017.
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Repository Metadata and local packages
I need help with dnf. I frequently need to install a fresh image of fedora server on a VM. Once that's done, every time I try to use dnf to search or install packages for the first time, it seems to ...
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dnf copr plugin not present in dnf-plugins-core
I want to install a package using dnf and copr. Both copr-cli and dnf-plugins-core are installed. But dnf says copr does not exist:
$> sudo dnf install dnf-plugins-core
Using metadata from Wed ...
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Linux Fedora 22 dnf ImportError?
I'm a Linux newbie. Still figuring out sysadmin/installation procedures. Recently after a software installation, the following error has been showing up. All dnf functions are not working.
Even ...
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Using a copr repo that has packages for older versions of Fedora?
I've enabled a copr repository with:
dnf copr enable jonludlam/opam
When I attempt to install dnf -v -y install opam, it's clear that I am searching for a dnf repo that doesn't exists:
cachedir: /...
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How to disable automatic updates on Fedora 25?
The title is sufficient I think. How can I stop Fedora to automatically download and install system and software updates on restart?
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Inconsistent permissions for dnf install
Why do I not need to install as root when the shell "guesses" the package I need to execute a command?
For example:
(cseymour) : ~ $ dnf install rogue
Error: This command has to be run under the ...
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How to ger rid of "[WARNING]: Consider using dnf module rather than running dnf"?
Some of my ansible playbooks start with installation of python2-dnf package that is required for dnf ansible module to run.
tasks:
- name: Install required dnf python binding
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Unknown error during fedora 24 mate initial update
i ran the proper dnf update command but in the middle of cleanup i got logged out and some of my processes got restarted. on restart nothing new was installed including the new kernel. now dnf won't ...
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How to make "dnf" use packages from a "copr" repository
On Fedora 24:
I want to replace the Haskell compiler (package ghc) with a later version (specifically, 7.10.3) from a "copr" repository.
So I enable the repository:
dnf copr enable petersen/ghc-7....
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Fedora - how to downgrade to a specific package version?
How to downgrade to a specific package version not available with plain dnf downgrade <package>?
For example, the Linux kernel my Fedora 23 came out with (kernel-4.6.4-201.fc23.i686) must be ...
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DNF displays error after package install on Fedora
I am having a strange exception each time a package is installed/upgraded with dnf!
However, the packages are well installed.
It seems like DNF is outputting some malformed JSON that causes thed ...
