Questions tagged [package-management]
Package management is the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing software packages for a computer's operating system in a consistent manner.
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Debian11 no longer starting into desktop, after (presumed) improper shutdown - causes/fixes?
Every time I restart the VM, Debian11 (guest OS) boots into console. I can login fine. If I then do startx, it does open one little GUI-looking terminal on a screen-filling black background, no normal ...
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Why are there extra packages listed by Chocolatey and can I delete them?
On opening the choco lib folder, I can see a lot of files. The only stuffs I remember installing were python and ffmpeg, and Chocolatey of course. But what are the rest? And there are 3 instances of ...
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How come rebuilt packages are seen as a downgrade in Debian / APT based distros?
I wanted to look into building packages for Debian, but the process is not as straightforward as in other distributions it seems, when it comes to writing the instructions on how to build the package, ...
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Remove package from winget package list without uninstalling
Synopsis: I used Winget to install an application that had an auto
updater, such as Discord. The issue here is that if the Discord app
upgrades itself,the Winget will be unable to detect the change in
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How do I check what versions of cygwin packages are available using apt-cyg and how do I install them? [duplicate]
I recently wanted to upgrade from perl 5.32 to perl 5.36 via my cygwin terminal using apt-cyg with no success. In particular I tried:
apt-cyg install perl=5.36.1-1
The error message was:
Package ...
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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 ...
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How to search several words in pkg (FreeBSD)
I want to search several words in FreeBSD packages using pkg command
Example, if I want to search all packages with the words "web server" in the description, someone would try this:
pkg ...
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Arch Linux must synchronize certain package data with repository server
How to force Arch linux to synchronize a certain packages data with repository server configured as {repo_title_name} in pacman.conf?
I tried sudo pacman -Sy {repo_title_name} and it resulted in:
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Debian source.list query
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Is it okay to edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change the entry from deb http://ftp.gb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-security main contrib non-free to deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ ...
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Why do I get SSL not available when trying to install this package with raco?
When trying to install Pollen with sudo raco pkg install pollen
I get the following output:
[sudo] password for jim:
Resolving "pollen" via https://download.racket-lang.org/releases/8.2/...
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How can I deploy installed software setup one distribution to another
I have a Ubuntu system with manually installed packages, obtained from a variety of sources such as apt repositories, snaps, and standalone packages. I'd like to distribute my list of software to ...
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apt-offline to add custom .deb files to apt update list
I have .deb files that were manually generated.
With apt-offline install I can synchronize them with apt cache. However if I try apt install <package-name> it doesn't find the synchronized deb ...
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debian cups package keeps overwriting custom PPD - how to avoid?
To make a networked xerox machine work as expected I had to customize the PPD file.
Now either the package manager, the post-install script or any cups mechanism itself keeps overwriting the ...
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fdimples (FreeDOS) won't find package information
I have installed FreeDOS 1.3 on a virtual box VM. After installation, I have removed the CD image from the VM and restarted.
Now I would like to manage the installed packages and so I have started ...
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Can't find nitrogen package for Alpine Linux
I can't find the "nitrogen" package for Alpine Linux, they changed the name (for example the change of xorg-xinit to just xinit) or there is a better alternative?
I tried to find by the ...
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What is the meaning of official, unofficial, community, third-party, first-party and outdated package distributors?
I'm reading this github package installer page and they mention different type of status for each package source. What is the meaning of those? Should I not trust unoffical or third-party ones?
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Getting this error when trying to use flatpak, “No remote refs found similar to ‘flathub’”
I am trying to use flatpak and whenever I try and install anything I get this error stating:
error: No remote refs found similar to ‘flathub’
I have googled this error and it seems that this occurs ...
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"Unable to locate package" error in Crunchbang
I am running Crunchbang as a virtual machine. I ran
sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get install calibre. It says
E: Unable to locate package
How to resolve this? I have already tried the steps ...
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WSL Package lists break
I'm using Ubuntu WSL and trying to install fish and ohmyposh. When I run apt update I get only these package managers:
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive....
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apt refuses to update version for some packages
To preface: some crazy breakage occurred on my debian 11 system. To fix I had to boot a live disc, mount my root partition, copy /usr/lib from the live medium to the root, chroot, and manually ...
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Installing an RPM package on a server without any access to the internet
I have a minimal CentOS server with no access to the internet. Let's call it server A.
My target it to build a shell script file to install a specific version of a local RPM file for an application. ...
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How to remove multiple identical installed RPM packages?
A host crashed near the end of some package update, and now I have an inconsistency I'd like to fix:
rpm -Va complains about dependency packages would be missing, but those packages are installed!
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Search Python packages that no other packages depend on
How can I find all Python packages that no other packages depend on? I tried pipdeptree to get dependency trees, but I'm not sure if this is a good starting point and my impression is that it's ...
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What is this pip config output?
I have to install and configure Python 3.8.10 on a Windows 7 machine and I'm getting this output for pip config -v list:
C:\Users\Username>pip config -v list
For variant 'global', will try loading '...
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CentOS cannot load library liblapacke.so.3, yum can't find suitable candidate
I am attempting to run a command:
perl bin/smartpca.perl -i merged.eigenstrat.34string.length.geno -a merged.eigenstrat.34string.length.snp -b merged.eigenstrat.34string.length.ind -o merged....
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How to migrate all packages, settings, user data etc. after updating to a newer Python version? [closed]
I've just installed Python 3.10 on Windows 10 and none of my scripts are working. For instance, when doing jupyter notebook I get
'jupyter' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
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How to read a portfile of a specific package in macports?
I'm trying to find out what a specific port installs and I don't see a way on the ports page to read the portfile.
Background: There is a package called openldap-devel, that I need, but I don't ...
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After updating CPU-Z through winget, the language became chinese
I installed CPU-Z before and it was english. Then discovered winget today. Expecting it will behave close to APT on Debian-based operating systems, I upgraded all of the softwares installed on my ...
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How do package installers make packages available anywhere without adding them to the Environment Variables' path?
Example1:
When I install a package using a package manager such as the JavaScript package manager npm, the package immediately becomes available to run from any directory on any terminal:
$ npm ...
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Starbase Codewright backup file write and remove errors
I am using Codewright 7.0 and am consistently getting an error saying:
Cant copy/move file "C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeWright\cwright.ini to backup file C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeWright\cwright....
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How to remove/uninstall corrupted winget package?
When I run winget list python I get that Python.Python.3 is installed by winget; however, running python says the executable is missing.
winget uninstall --id Python.Python.3 runs the uninstaller but ...
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How to efficiently update a package on debian beyond what is available from the repository?
How to update a debian package beyond what is available with apt-get from the official repository of my version of Debian (9.13). For example Python3.0>Python3.7, or meson0.37.1-1>meson0.54. For ...
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Why do I get a failure to get http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye-updates/InRelease when doing apt update on Debian?
I have gone to install a new program, and when I have done an update I have received several warnings:
W: Failed to get http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye-updates/InRelease Cannot start ...
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AttributeError: 'version_info' object has no attribute '__version__' when trying to load Yolo Model Weights
I have been referred to this platform from Stack Overflow for this question.
I am trying to follow the How to Build Object Detection APIs Using TensorFlow and Flask video (on YouTube).
I cloned the ...
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How to see which package depends on the lib?
I come with a question - how to check which package depends on a given lib? I don't mean apt show [lib] because that shows what dependencies are responsible for a particular lib. And I have a lib (...
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How to specify winget installation folder
I would like to use winget, on Windows 10, as a packet manager, it seems to work pretty well. However I have encountered a big inconvenience: I seem to be not able to specify the location of the ...
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Supervisor is not available. Cannot install it on a fresh Debian 9.13
On our vagrant dev environment, when provisioning (Vagrant box debian 9.13) I install Supervisor using shell provisioner. Always working as expected. That's the content of the script:
#!/usr/bin/env ...
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Why did /usr/bin/php did point to a new version after a reboot
I use ubuntu 20.04 with it's default PHP 7.4
I had to use PHP 7.2 to update the dependencies of an old project, so I used ppa:ondrej/php
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update
sudo ...
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Apt mistakes currently installed `code` package for a different version
I'm using Pop!_OS 18.04 and VS Code. Unfortunately Pop provides slightly broken code packages in its repos and I prefer to use Microsoft-provided code. I have their source added and apt sees it. I ...
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Linux: How to Completely Remove ALL Traces of a Program?
Is there a way to completely remove ALL traces of a program in Linux?
I've researched a lot on this, and I've seen people talk about apt-get remove packagename, apt-get purge packagename, apt-get ...
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Package choices when installing web server
While installing a web server, I've been pondering some serious question...
"Do I really need that package?"
I've noticed that when you install your packages for your web server,
you often ...
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Do I need to code sign my executables to add my application to WinGet?
The WinGet spec lists the Minimal singleton YAML file example (which I will display below as of 6/17/2021) shows a SignatureSha256 value, which I think signifies that the executables must be signed... ...
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Debian 10: The following packages have unmet dependencies
I'm trying to install some software as part of a project I am working on for a client.
The software is an apt/deb package. The downloads page for this package state that it is designed to work with ...
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Reprovision a Windows 10 package
I've mistakenly unprovisioned the Paint 3d (MS Paint) appx package using
Get-appxprovisionedpackage -online | where-object {$_.packagename -like "*paint*"} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage -...
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Debian VPS : can't apt-get update
I have debian on a VPS and when I do "sudo apt-get update" it failed like this :
Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch http://apt.pm2.io/ubuntu/dists/stable/InRelease Could not ...
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Get-InstalledModule -AllowPrerelease not listing the prereleases?
I'm currently working on a script that automatically updates a package with error handling. I also want it to recognize prerelease packages. For that, I'm using the "Get-InstalledModule" ...
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what packages does an `apt` source.list provide?
Is there a way to tell what packages are provided by an /etc/apt/sources.list* entry?
I see that apt-cache policy '*' lists all packages provided by all sources, which could be parsed, but that's... ...
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Poetry add <package> returns AttributeError
I am trying to create a Python package using poetry. I haven't been able to replicate the steps described in
documentation. When I try to add a dependancy, e.g.
poetry add pendulum
I get
jan@jan-XPS-...
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Dependency error when installing discord
Guys I'm trying to install discord on my Kali Linux, but I'm getting this error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading state ...
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Debian: Remove all packages installed during a specific date
On a specific day, I installed lots of packages - that I didn't keep a good track of - on my Debian machine. Now I need to remove all this mess, because what I was trying to install simply didn't work ...
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