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The process of installing software, hardware, or peripherals on a personal computer.

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Why is installation of MySQL on my mac is always halted

I've been trying to install MySQL on my mac and an issue kept happening. I downloaded macOS 14 (x86, 64-bit), DMG Archive. Everything seemed fine until the final step. It says "the software was ...
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Nessus install interrupted by WinPcap

Why is Nessus installation interrupted by WinPcap? I have a Windows 10 Pro PC with Wireshark and nmap installed, so I know I have WinPcap is already installed, but why is this completely shutting out ...
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How to pick Office 2016 license in Click-To-Run installer?

The context: I have two active licenses purchased in my MS account, Office365 subscription and Office Home and Student 2016. Both allow installation and when I press the install button they start ...
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Install Windows 10 32 bit on M.2 drive

I have an M.2 drive that I'm currently trying to install Windows 10 x32 on (we need the 32 bit version for work apps). Installing Windows 10 x64 works just fine, but trying to install the 32 bit ...
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How to solve this Dependencies apt --fix-broken install

When I use the command apt --fix-broken install I get the following errors: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies....
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VMware Workstation linux installation stuck at "clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc"

During installation XCP-ng 8.2.1, installation stuck at "clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc". I had the same problem with Virtual Box but this command "vboxmanage setextradata &...
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Install Python 3.7.3 from source with SSL failed

I am having troubles installing Python 3.7.3 with SSL. All my compilations are successful, but the final install of module _ssl is failed. Step 1: Install OpenSSL: git clone https://github.com/openssl/...
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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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Completely reinstall WSL

I installed WSL 1, enjoyed having Linux on my PC, then discovered the limitations of the scarce interoperability over files between the two operating systems. So I installed WSL 2 following the specs (...
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Cannot boot after applying OpenCore Legacy Patcher Monteray for a MacBook5,1 (Late 2008 Aluminum Unibody)

I'm attempting to use OpenCore Legacy Patcher to update an Late-2008 aluminum unibody MacBook (MacBook5,1) to run Monterey (macOS 12). What I did: On the target MacBook5,1, I downloaded the OpenCore ...
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UltraISO unable to select disk drive when making Windows 7 bootable

I am following a tutorial to make a Windows 7 bootable, but at this particular step, UltraISO does not give me options to select disk drive and write method, as you can see here. So I am stuck there. ...
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Does an Extended Validation (EV) Code Signing Certificate protect the downloader if the installer is compromised

A friend of mine has some software available on his website and the installer for it has been infected with some malware. The infection happened on the hosted server without my friend knowing. ...
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Update "replaced" Omnifocus in Applications

I had Omnifocus 3 and I installed Omnifocus 4. When it had me drag the app into Applications, it asked me if I wanted to keep one or both the old or new apps. I chose to "replace" the old ...
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How to automatically install removed network printers?

By default Windows installs network printers automatically with an IPP or another type of basic print driver. I discovered that when you delete such an automatically installed printer it won't be ...
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Brother MFC Network Scanner Driver Installation

I am not sure on which site to ask this question, so I would be glad if you were to point me in the right direction, in case this is the entirely wrong place. I am trying to install a Brother MFC-...
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PostgreSQL 9.2.4 (Windows 7) - Service won't start, “could not load pg_hba.conf”

I am trying to get Postgres 9.2.4 to run as a service on Windows 7. After installing postgres, the service was running fine. However, after setting postgres up as a server for another program, the ...
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"Hard disk not found" after attempted install Ubuntu 23.10

I had a dual boot system with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 22.04. I wanted to install Ubuntu 23.10 instead of 22.04. Info: Secure boot: off SATA mode: AHCI Boot mode: UEFI Windows and Linux are both ...
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Why is the UEFI admin password is asking this password at each reboot?

I am currently setting a new home server; a Qotom Mini PC. It is equipped with an AMI BIOS/UEFI v2.19 UEFI 2.6. I've set a BIOS/UEFI password "administrator" only (no "user" ...
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Laptop keyboard not working when trying to install various flavours of Ubuntu from live USB

Today I have acquired a new laptop, Maibenben X565, with pre-installed Kubuntu 22.10. Kubuntu 22.10 is no longer supported, so I wasn't able to update and install packages I need, and was forced to ...
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Cannot able to run ng serve command in Windows 10

I am trying to install angular on Windows 10. 1- My node version is node -v v10.16.0 and npm version is npm -v 6.9.0 After running command of angular cli which is npm install -g @angular/cli ...
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How to add EFI GOP driver to platform firmware for use with Secure Boot?

I am trying to insert a GOP driver for the SM750 embedded graphics chip into the platform firmware so that it can be used with secure boot. This is in the form of an .efi file that was given to me by ...
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pip install python winerror 10054

Been trying to pip install selenium keep getting these same errors, but its not just selenium its any package. I believe it maybe a firewall issue because I am trying to install this on a workstation ...
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Error running installer in Windows 7 VM: "publisher of file [xxx] cannot be verified"

For various reasons, I need to install a third-party program on a Windows 7 VM running under Parallels Desktop 18 on a MacBook Pro running OS 12.6.1. The problem appears when I try to run the ...
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Install Windows 10 via PXE

I've been searching for a way to complete an unattended Windows 10 installation with only bad luck. I have found lots of information on loading and running 10 from a PXE server but nothing saying it ...
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"Fatal library error, lookup self" with pacstrap during Arch linux install

I'm following the Arch Linux install guide. When I run pacstrap -K /mnt base linux linux-firmware, everything goes smoothly until the following error message occurs: (4/5) Check if user should be ...
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Error when trying to install extensions via VScode on my Chromebook: “ Error scanning user extensions: Unexpected token '#', "#!/bin/bas"... ”

When I am trying to install extensions within VScode on my Chromebook. It shows me an error message"please check for the log details. When I clicked on the log, the message was: 2024-03-02 15:03:...
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Can't install arch linux because archinstall couldn't open a file

I'm attempting to dual boot Windows and Arch linux. During installation of Arch linux, the following error occured: error: failed to setup a download payload for /mnt/archinstall/var/cache/pacman/pkg/...
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Asus FX504 BIOS boot issue

I recently bought an Asus FX504 laptop which I wanted to upgrade the HDD + Intel Optane with my SSD. After removing both the hardware above and installing my SSD, I am entering the BIOS each time I ...
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How to confirm that the licensing for a fresh install of Windows 10 is active and valid?

A trusted local computer shop provided a magical thumb drive, and after installing Windows I get: PS C:\Users\saund> PS C:\Users\saund> PS C:\Users\saund> [System.Environment]::OSVersion....
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Where can I find the xmodemsend command in TeraTerm

I have installed TeraTerm's latest version on my Windows PC. I was reading the help menu of the TeraTerm and they reference the 'xmodemsend' command to transfer a file over Xmodem protocol via command ...
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How do I install glusterfs-server using rpm on Oracle Linux 9?

I have to install glusterfs-server using rpm on oracle linux 9. I just found how to install glusterfs-server on other linux distributions. But, I can not found any solution for oracle linux 9. Oracle ...
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Windows 8.1 install restarts into setup

My laptop is Samsung ativ book 6 and I'm installing windows 8.1 (64 bit) on it. I made bootable usb, set bios to boot from it. Did setup, removed all partitions and made one partitions (system ...
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Why I can't open any downloaded setup.exe file on Windows XP?

Today my friend ask me how can he run any Windows application install file, because on Windows XP, just dosen't opened. I realy surprised, first time I thinked he just joked me, but it's true, when I ...
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Windows 10 USB installation stuck at 'Copying Windows files (0%)'

After formatting the SSD in my laptop, I am trying to install Windows 10 on it using a USB created from the Windows Media Creation Tool (I have tried multiple USBs). When I do this, the process does ...
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Installing software to /usr/opt/ - needs permission to run the software?

I'm trying to manually update chromium with Chromium Updater. It gives me a chrome-linux.zip. You can extract that, then run /.chrome to run it, it runs fine. Now the question is - where do I ...
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VirtualBox Installation

Sorry guys if this is a dumb question but I'm trying to learn all of this and am a bit confused. I have Kali Linux installed as a 'Live" program to a USB stick. I'm looking at using the Oracle ...
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Ansible installed via pip3, but Ansible commands not found

I have installed Ansible via pip3, but I can't find the Ansible commands (ansible --version, ansible-playbook, etc.) Here's the listing that shows that Ansible is installed via pip3: :~# pip3 list | ...
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Docker, start image from scratch

All getting-started guides for Docker based their docker images on someone else's. However, even the base image has 180MB of virtual storage there. So, I'm wondering, is it possible to start my ...
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Windows 8.1 Update 1 showing activation error

I have installed Windows 8.1 Update 1 Pro Version a few weeks back on my desktop computer running 64 bit version of the OS. The OS was running perfectly fine until today when it started showing ...
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Installing build-essentials with linux-headers package

I'm trying to update the network card drivers on my Debian based server. I'm following this guide: Driver installation guide I reached the step aptitude install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -...
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Move From Legacy to UEFI

I recently installed Fedora 39 on my system, but I only later realized that I did so in Legacy BIOS mode. Now, I'd like to switch to UEFI boot mode without having to reinstall the entire system. Is ...
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Installing windows 11 fails, "A media driver your computer needs is missing" error

I've been trying to install win11 on my MSI Pulse laptop, but whenever I boot from USB it gives me error "A media driver your computer needs is missing". I found out so far that INTEL VMD/...
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Install Linux with two hard drives

I've a machine with two hard drives. The first one has 80 GB and the second has 120 GB. I'm about to format this machine and install Linux, and I want to install all the main partitions (/, /...
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How to list pacman and AUR installed packages, of an Arch Linux installation on mounted drive?

My computer "died". I got a new one and want to migrate my Arch install to my new machine. Moved from Intel to AMD, new motherboard, etc.. I thought the better approach would be to do a ...
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Installing / Updating Docker Desktop on Mac without admin

I have a Mac where I do not have admin rights. I have requested and received temporary admin rights on the machine to install Docker. I just recently read that if we can install any software in a ...
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Debian 10 32-bit ior any Linux) install on Dell Venue 11 Pro

I was hoping that I could get some assistance with a little problem I've been having while attempting to install 32-bit Debian 10 on a Dell Venue Pro 11 tablet. However the only real issue with it ...
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MSI with Windows 11 installed unable to log in error 0xd000a002

I'm having a problem with my MSI Summit E13FlipEvo A12MT-019IT laptop with Windows 11 installed. For a few days I haven't been able to log in by entering my pin and password even though I know that ...
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Install persistent, running Kubuntu on USB drive from Windows without installing on system drive

I am new to Linux and am having trouble installing Kubuntu on a USB drive. I’m on Windows, and I used Rufus and Universal USB installer from pendrivelinux.com to install ISOs I downloaded but I only ...
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Homebrew pros and cons on macOS

I have to reset a MacBook Pro (15 inch mid 2012, with macOS Catalina), and to rienstall all the applications after the reset I'm considering to use Homebrew instead of the traditional method (download ...
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When distributing a Linux application, can you include dynamic libraries alongside your binary?

dumb question about distributing a Linux application. I know we have Flatpak for this but I am curious. Say you're creating a GUI application that depends on some dynamic dependencies. As I understand ...

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