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How to install Suggests dependencies of a package
If I want to install a package and its Suggests dependencies, I run:
$ sudo apt-get --install-suggests install <package name>
However, if <package name> is already installed, and not ...
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Why I was able to fix a broken package with aptitude but I could not with either apt-get or synaptic?
Yesterday I upgraded my Debian Testing and Audacious stopped to work. Troubleshooting I found that the problem was that it was updated to a recent version but the needed plugins were not. I tried to ...
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Dependencies problem with automake
I am using automake on Debian Squeeze for compiling a very simple C project with 6 source files.
The issue comes when I try to compile the sources using the generated Makefile. One of the sources ...
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Installation problem with python-software-properties
I need to install the last version of node.js but my system has in repository older version. I need to add new ppa source. I followed this tutorial
Question - when I install ...
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Can't Install gdal on CentOS 5
I'm really struggling with installing gdal on CentOS 5 -- I have searched and searched. Here is the output I get:
[root@1-free-fonts ~]# yum install gdal
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror ...
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Make Completion Progress Script
Any time I'm executing a build process that takes several hours, I inevitably stare at my terminal and wonder, "how much longer?" Sometimes, I manually pick up on some pathname echoed to the terminal ...
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Apache installation configuration can't find PCRE? ( pcre-config for libpcre not found )
These are the requirements and instructions on how to install Apache on Linux.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/install.html
So I've installed everything (c++ compiler, apr and apr-util) to be ...
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All dependencies for third-party-compiled binary
I've got a binary, compiled by a third party and I need to know all the dependencies it requires. I'm not sure if ldd shows everything. I'm sure the binary uses GStreamer, and some codec packages, but ...
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download packages for different distribution with apt
I want to download a .deb package with it's dependencies for a different distribution.
I have many Linux systems in my company: Ubuntu 11.04, 11.10, 12.10, and Debian 5 and 6.
The command to ...
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Debian: Is it possible/safe to install packages from an older version of the repository?
I'm currently running Debian testing (Wheezy) and am trying to get SCIM working. I want to install the scim-pinyin package, but there is no such package available in the testing repository, although ...
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Installing virtualbox on Debian: dependency problems
I'm currently running Debian Wheezy (Testing). I want to install virtualbox but when I run the following:
# aptitude install virtualbox
...I get the following result:
The following packages have ...
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Broken package system in Linux Mint - Firefox looks like the culprit
Synaptic and the likes are giving me this error:
You have 1 broken package on your system.
I have tried to use the fix broken packages option but Synaptic simply crashes. It seems that Firefox ...
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libssl1.0.0 doesn't satisfy libssl0.9.8 dependency?
In Debian Wheezy, I'm trying to install the vmware-view-client package from the Ubuntu Software Center (because the open client won't work for my situation), but dpkg can't handle it. Synaptic says I ...
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Is my apt-get dependency tree corrupted?
I wanted to uninstall the libboost libraries. I wrote in the console:
sudo apt-get remove libboost-*
But looking more precisely at the console output, I noticed apt-get was ready to remove several ...
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Yum and recommended/suggested packages
I'd like to install a software package on my Fedora System, but it has a lot of unreasonable dependencies (which I know for sure they are not actually required).
I used to work on Debian, where ...
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How to automatically resolve dependencies on CentOS?
For example, I need to compile some software from sources, build rpm-packages from it, and install them.
The question is - how to automatically resolve (install corresponding packages) dependencies ...
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Aptitude doesn't remove automatically installed packages
It seems aptitude doesn't remove automatically installed packages that are not depended on if these packages are suggested by any other (manually installed) ones.
root@host:/# aptitude install ...
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How to make an rpm package that installs a Java environment if needed
I'm very new to RPM packaging and I'm curious if, during the installation of one RPM it is possible to conditionally install another RPM if needed.
In a nutshell.
My RPM requires a particular JRE. ...
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Installing RPMS on Centos
Is generally installing standalone rpms considered 'dangerous'? Are these affected by any system upgrades, package upgrades etc.? How about dependencies and libraries?
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Why did yum-builddep not provide the dependencies to install my rpm?
I am trying to rum my rpm package but getting this dependencies error.
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -ivh /root/x86_64/asterisk-1.8.12.2-1.fc15.x86_64.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
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Apt-Get Install Unmet Dependencies
My debian computer will not install the new kernel. It says I have unmet dependencies, and those dependencies say they have unmet dependencies. Many of these dependencies are already installed ...
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Firefox circular-dependency hell on Linux Mint 13
Having difficulty re-installing Firefox, after an installation to resolve places.sqlite issues. It appears that I'm trapped in circular dependency hell.
Need to resolve firefox dependency hell to ...
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Make and apt-get Have Stopped Working
So I downloaded the non-free broadcom driver(b44) for my debian install, however when I try to make it I get the following error:
make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/build ...
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Installing Skype on Debian x64
I am new to Linux and I'm trying to install Skype using this
manual. I successfully download the package using the command:
wget -O skype-install.deb http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-deb-64
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Determining Dependencies and Installing from Directory
I have a directory with all Dependencies in .deb format.
But there are lots of them. I need only those that i need for gimp.
biggenius@hacbook:~/Desktop/rocks/packages$ dpkg-deb -I ...
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Installing rpm & dependencies
I am trying to install an rpm, namely the Oracle 10g database for CentOS 6 for testing an app.
The problem is that the machine the OS is installed on does not have access to the internet and there ...
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Conditional dependencies for a Debian package
I am creating a package that needs to depend on a package if another is installed, but needs a different dependency if no such package is installed. Is that possible using just the control file of the ...
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'Distribution' to install in home directory (on older Linux) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Non-Root Package Managers
I'm stuck with a pretty old Linux distribution at work (Centos 5.4 from the end of 2009), and also don't have root access. If I want to use ...
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Is there a way to use/recompile libgio-2.0 on machine with libc-2.5?
I have a program (JavaFX 2, namely), and one of its binaries (libglass.so) requires libgio-2.0.so.0. The problem is, the system, on which I need to run the app, is quite old and mostly out of my ...
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Mon Configuration
I am trying to get the hang of the mon daemon, in linux. I was wondering, can you set up dependencies in mod, if so how. As far as I understand it the script below will run ping then http regardless. ...
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problems installing lcov on Debian 6
I have been stuck for a few hours trying to install lcov on a debian 6 box.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
What I have tried the following in the command line:
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How to remove gnome-games package without removing other packages?
So I want to remove (more exactly purge) some packages like gnome-games from Debian 6. As already expected and know by research Aptitude also wants to remove in example the meta-package gnome, as ...
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Fedora 16 dependency hell
There's a package libvpx-0.9.7 which is required by empathy application. Now I want to install another application which requires libvpx-1.0... Update is not allowed because some applications depend ...
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Back up particular package and its dependencies
It may sound like a silly question, but I'm new to Linux and eager to know if there is any way to do this. Okay, my question is: can we take a backup of a particular package and its dependencies?
For ...
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libstdc++.so.3 => not found on CloudLinux, no SuperUser permissions, seemingly in chroot.
I am trying to install the Linux x64 BOINC command-line interface client on a CloudLinux machine with x86_64 Architecture.
When I try to run the executable I get an error:
./boinc: error while ...
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CentOS 6 installs libmysqlclient.so.16 and friends without me asking
Whilst trying to resolve a dependency issue with MySQL's libmysqlclient libraries on one of my CentOS 6 MySQL servers I was surprised to discover the following libraries installed in /usr/lib/mysql:
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Dependencies between shared libraries in the same Debian packages
Suppose I want to create a package with multiple shared libraries - call it libfoo, which contains liba.so.1 and libb.so.1. Now, say liba.so.1 uses a symbol from libb.so.1. If I compile like this, ...
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Debian 6 Squeeze - installing build-essentials - gcc / g++
The first thing to say is: "I am noob", so please be patient and don't laugh.. too much on me. I need to install c / c++ compiler and I heard that the best thing to do is to install gcc/g++ for that ...
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Unmet acroread dependencies preventing Synaptic install
In Synaptic I am getting the error:
acroread:
Depends: acroread-l10n-en but it is not going to be installed or acroread-l10n
Depends: acroread-debian-files but it is not going to be installed
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RPM dependencies with localinstall
I need to install an rpm package on a system which has no internet access. So, let's say I already have needed dependencies. How do I install them only by running the main rpm package? Do they need to ...
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Find FreeBSD ports that depend on another port
I have a headless FreeBSD server where some port has installed tons of X11-related packages. I would like to find out what these ports are so I can get rid of the unwanted X-related packages. Is there ...
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Failed dependencies
I am searching for the following :
libpython2.5.so.1.0
libtinfo.so.5
python(abi) = 2.5
I searched , but I am not able to find these. I am running Centos 5.6 with linux kernel 2.6.18-238.el5.
$ ...
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Problems with apt-get upgrade on Debian (404 Not Found)
I can't update my Debian Sid system.
on running the apt-get upgrade I am getting:
maciej@wladyslawa:/etc/apt$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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How does rpm resolve library dependencies?
I try to make a package of a program which is linked to such library (output from ldd):
libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0 =>
/usr/lib64/wx-2.8-wxcontainer/libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0
Pretty straightforward, ...
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Python library conflict with lower version
I am trying to reinstall yum in CentOS. Because I made some mistake by removing python.
so I got error as follows
There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The ...
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How to build a cross-distro binary RPM package?
I'm trying to build a cross-distro binary RPM package that works under Fedora and openSUSE. I'm using a Require: tag to set the dependencies package names. The problem is that the package names are ...
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In Gentoo, what is the difference between amd64, ~amd64 and ~amd64-linux?
When I run equery depgraph www-client/chromium-10.0.648.151, not all dependencies are available. Some shows M[package.mask], while some other shows [missing keyword]. My ACCEPT_KEYWORDS is ...
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how can I install flash plugin in Fedora core 3 machine?
Latest flash rpm and tarball has forsaken my machine with fedora core 3 OS.
There are two browsers currently installed in the System. Firefox 2.0.x and Opera 10.11. Those two browsers do not display ...
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Arch Linux: python and python2 are in conflict
I've recently installed Arch Linux onto my primary (Ubuntu) computer, and it is working really well for me. It's fast, configurable, basically a faster version of Ubuntu.
Since compiz-fusion isn't ...
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Get list of required libraries when installing something from source
When installing something from source (say, Ruby 1.9.2), what command can I run to get a complete list of all the dependencies needed to install that application? Is this possible?
