Questions tagged [installation]
The process of installing software, hardware, or peripherals on a personal computer.
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Debian system can't access full memory
I decided to install Linux debian 12 on my PC today. The install itself worked without issues, but I am unable to install applications. When I try to the system tells me to re-enter the drive.
In the ...
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How do I stop this install of Office
For a few days now, after a boot, I see this error
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010
The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable.
Click OK to try again, or ...
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Kali Linux VM stuck on installation
I am trying to set up Kali Linux on VirtualBox but it is stuck in the 'Select and Install Software' step. The progress bar shows that it is nearly completed, but it has been stuck on 'Unpacking ...
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Desktop entry equivalents on Windows and macOS?
What are the equivalents of Freedesktop's .desktop entry for different operating systems?
I'm making a Python package that would allow managing and registering such entries for other python packages ...
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Installing micropython gone wrong
I am trying to install MicroPython on my computer for microprocessor programming.
I used this instruction pip install esptool then the cmd printed out this error:
Using cached esptool-4.6.2.tar.gz (...
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installed WSL before checking "Windows Subsystem for Linux" on WIndows 11
I installed WSL on Win 11, and Ubuntu afterwards, and everything seems to work just fine, but when I checked the tutorials how to install it, I found I had to check "Windows Subsystem for Linux&...
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How to update OpenVPN Server on Windows?
I have OpenVPN 2.6.6 installed on Windows 10, configured to run as a server.
For security reasons, i like to keep all components of my server up to date, and when i noticed that OpenVPN 2.6.7 had been ...
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How to install Windows 10/11 - reusing the original License Key - in a new SSD? [duplicate]
A new laptop always has installed by default either Windows 10 or Windows 11 being mostly home.
I know how to get the current original License Key. It through the following command:
wmic path ...
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Installation macOS High Sierra shows Prohibitory Symbol
The HDD from my daughter's Macbook white mid 2010 is very old and running terribly slow, so I bought a Samsung 870 EVO 500GB SSD to replace it. Then I downloaded a install Mac OS El Capitan app.zip ...
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How do you reset a Linux host to its first-boot state?
We are building a generic deployment image and I want to clean/delete all the host-specific details. (This a RHEL8/Oracle 8/Alma 8 system.)
This is what I have so far:
# rm -rf /etc/.etckeeper/* # if ...
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Trouble installing a package with chocolatey: System.Management.Automation.RemoteException
I'm trying to install a package with chocolatey 2.2.2 (the package is texlive), using a PowerShell session run as administrator.
I get the following error:
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texlive package files install ...
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BeeLink NUC UEFI Shell Command to Format Partition
I have a Beelink NUC that powers on to a "UEFI Interactive Shell v2.2" and Shell>.
I have a installation media USB for Win10, but when I view the current partitions it says unable to ...
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Downloading Google Chrome using Powershell
Is it possible to download the latest version of Google Chrome using Powershell. I'm an IT Admin looking at putting a script together for our field techs. Since upgrading our client machines to ...
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Trouble installing a Grapher (install.package command) on Debian
I'm trying to install Grapher from https://grapher.network/docs/install
The V8 library install is fine, works great. But the second line to get Grapher is throwing an error. According to the doc it ...
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I tried installing oracle but it was showing installation error. Will there be some residues of failed installation files on my system?
The error to be specific is this
""The wizard was interrupted before oracle Database 18c Express Edition could be installed
Your system has not been modified. To complete installation at ...
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Installing Apps on Alma Linux
I started Linux since 2000 on Suse Linux that time.
At that time there was only installing from RPM, no Flatpacks or AppImages.
I recently installed Alma Linux (9) for it is based on RHEL and vey ...
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Partial Linux GUI install on Chromebook was interrupted. How do I undo all that was done and start over?
I got a phone call and bumped a key and have no idea where I am and want to undo all that is done so far, go to back to bare bones penguin so that I can start over.
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Why does wsl --install always yield Catastrophic Failure on my new Windows 11 Home 22H2 installation?
I am trying to start using Ubuntu 22.04 inside my Windows 11 laptop using wsl. I have gotten this to work on my desktop. However, every time I try to run 'wsl --install' (or 'wsl --install -d Ubuntu-...
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Error when installing .msi - needs to be installed on local drive
I have an MSI file I'm trying to install (for the Bose SoundTouch program). However, when I press 'install' after selecting the directory that it should be installed in, I get an error - that the ...
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Remote Application Installation Quotewerks
I am having an issue on my Windows Server 2019 Terminal Server. Im trying to install quotewerks. Im using an installation file that is on another server that i've shared the database for. It appears ...
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Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) will not install any Linux Distro
I am using a Windows PC with the following specs:
Edition: Windows 11 Home
Version: 23H2
OS build: 22631.2338
Experience: Windows Feature Experience Pack 100.22674.1000.0
Processor: Intel(R) Core(...
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Dificulty installing Linux Mint on Thinkpad t430
I'm trying to install Linux Mint MATE edition on an empty SSD on my laptop through a bootable USB stick. When I turn on the laptop it does show the menu giving me the option to start Linux mint, but ...
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Unable to upgrade MySQL to version 8.0.34 under Windows 11
I tried to upgrade MySQL from version 8.0.32 to 8.034 under Windows 11 and I had a strange problem while doing that. Take a look at this picture:
As you can see, the Next button is not highlighted, ...
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Microsoft Windows 10 Pro, Version 1903 KB's which are must be installed
There are 2 KB's are hard-installed: KB4497464 and KB4497727. So, I am assuming they're more important than other KB's. Hence the following link contains many of them; which of them has the same level ...
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Install WSL dist on physical drive
What I know:
How to install dists manually or from the store, using terminal and such.
Mounting ext4 physical drives in Windows that WSL can read.
What I don't know, and what I'm asking is how do I ...
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Will Rufus allow me to UPGRADE to windows 11 pro with a local account, or does a local account require a clean install?
My laptop has been bugging me to upgrade to windows 11, and I know that currently, the windows update version of the upgrade forces you to take on a microsoft account. I like my local account, and ...
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Using the /home of a broken Linux installation as the /home of a fresh install on a different partition
I have been using Manjaro in dual boot with Windows for a while but I completely messed up my Manjaro installation, likely when trying to install printer drivers. Manjaro does not boot anymore as the ...
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Windows 11 Pro installation issue. Asrock Z790 PG Lightning
I am struggling to install Windows 11 Pro on my new PC using Original USB bootable media provided by Microsoft. The thing is I cannot see the USB as boot option until I enable CSM and as far as I am ...
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How can I restore the WSL installation process after a Ctrl+C interrupt?
When I installed WSL by typing wsl --install in cmd, it got stuck on "Installing Ubuntu" for hours. (By the way, it's surprising that there's no progress bar, as the installation package for ...
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Installing Linux (Debian) with software RAID
As far as I am aware, it is not possible to install Debian 11 directly onto a software raid partition, because this is a "chicken-egg" problem.
To explain: the software raid requires some ...
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Installing from deb files vs run file
If an app publishers offers both a deb file/ repo based installation, as well as a run file, which is preferable, and why?
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How to update Python 3 installed through the Microsoft store without reinstalling a new version?
I installed Python 3.10 through the Microsoft Store and used to launch my scripts calling in python as such: python <path to script>.py.
Python 3.11 just launched and now that I type python in ...
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How to Forward /var/log/yum.log to Remote Logging Server using rsyslog.conf?
Gents,
I am trying to find a way to forward /var/log/yum.log towards Remote Logging Server using rsyslog.conf in my RHEL7. But Not happening.
I have tried this approach but no luck -
$InputFileName /...
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How can I get the OpenBSD Install Shell to populate the /dev directory with my USB drive so I can install the firmware from it?
I am in the process of trying to install OpenBSD 7.3 via the install73.img file. I do not have the ability to install via a wired connection, so I need to install the iwm wireless firmware via a USB ...
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unable to instal libcrypto.so.1.0.0 on Ubuntu 20.04.6
I have downloaded Android SDK and trying to compile it, it shows me the following error,
error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.1.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or ...
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Solved: HP T620 thin client: bizarre boot failure
Apologies for the length of this post, but the issue is puzzling, and if you keep reading, you will encounter at least 1 astonishing event.
I’ve successfully installed Debian 12 Bookworm on two HP ...
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Windows installation issues on new PC
I’ve just built a new PC and I’m trying to install windows. The only other working machine I have to hand is a Macbook running OSX so I used this method to create the installation USB: https://www....
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Java JDK 20 fails on install windows 10
When I try to install jdk 20, it fails.
When I try to install with the MSI, it fails almost immediately with the message "installation failed. The wizard was interrupted before Java(TM) Se ...
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InnoSetup - Python ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'importlib'
I am trying to create a setup for my small app.
After creating to .exe (--onedir) with pyinstaller (which it works).
I create the setup file with InnoSetup.
After that I installed the application and ...
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Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition - Minimum Setup
We have a cooperate license for Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition and for time to time I have to install (or re-install it) on different Servers and computers. The setup folder size is about ...
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An error occurred while installing .NET (7.0): .NET Acquisition Failed: I
Here is the error that keeps popping up with my experience during this problem (Ubuntu/os) :
An error occurred while installing .NET (7.0): .NET Acquisition Failed: Installation failed: Error: ...
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"Blue Windows" screen when a hard drive from a "dead" machine is replaced?
I am given a "dead" ACER Aspire 5733 Model PEW71 laptop. I opened the laptop and see no hard drive in it.
So I slid in a hard drive of my own, and this laptop goes to the "blue windows&...
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Can I install PHP libraries with Composer and is it a best practice?
A few years back I used to install PHP libraries on my Debian system this way:
apt install php-mbstring php-gettext php-cli php-mysql
Can I install these and other PHP libraries with Composer and is ...
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GRUB Message Encountered Installing Ubuntu 22.04 (from USB) onto a Windows 10 System
I have a problem similar to the one described at:
How to resolve Minimal BASH-Like line editing is supported
I had a fresh install of Windows 10 on a computer (Intel NUC10i7FNHN that I just purchased)....
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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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How can I extract the password from an installer/self-extracting archive? [closed]
I have an installer/self-extracting archive. The executable file has an embedded ZIP archive into it (like many other installers). The ZIP archive is encrypted with a password.
The installer DOES NOT ...
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Choco error checksum didn't meet
While installing tabby using choco gives checksum didn't match error.
PS C:\Users\devpa> choco install tabby -y
Chocolatey v2.0.0 ...
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Undefined symbols, mixing repositories, linux integrity, and fixing a whole distribution
Having this issue by trying to update / upgrade to Bookworm, led me to some thoughts about the integrity of linux, as distributions / repositories increasing and thus libraries may diverse enough to ...
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Expose an installed SDK package in the start menu
I am maintaining a software package that installs as a set of files in folders plus a series of executables. It is a complete SDK. I have developed an installer using Visual Studio and had been quite ...
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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 ...
