Installing software on a running system, either as binaries or from source
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installing column unix utility on windows
I would like to be able to use the BSD unix utilities: column, join and paste in my Cygwin installation. It seems that they are not available, or I cannot find them. Is there a way to install them so ...
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What ghc package does cabal-install need?
I've just installed cabal to try and get http://dmwit.com/yeganesh/, but on running cabal-install it throws the error:
cabal: ghc version >=6.4 is required but it could not be found.
Apt-cache ...
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Where is a good place to put applications that come pre-compiled?
Certain applications like Blender and Eclipse come precompiled in a tarball. Usually I put the directories in my home folder and access them from the command line. Is there a better place to put them ...
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How to set the default gcc version for only one user
I share a server (Ubuntu 11.04) with other people and I am the only one who has to use gcc 4-4 for my code, the rest is using 4.5. I already installed gcc 4.4 but how do I make it the default for me, ...
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Fritz WLAN USB stick - Xlib/Xfree86 dev packages for installing Wine
I have installed Ubuntu 10.4 and want to install the driver for my Fritz WLAN USB stick according to http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/fritz!wlan_usb_stick (German site... sorry). Now I am trying to install ...
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Warnings about read-only filesystems while installing a solaris package
I have a solaris machine that I am trying to install Perl 5.12 as well as gcc and make to get CPAN working. I downloaded the packages from sun freeware, and was able to install gcc. When I tried to ...
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How can I install Texas Instrument's dvsdk?
How can I install a file that doesn't even have a file extention? I followed the instructions, but I failed... Also apt doesn't do anything.
Here is the link to the file and the installation process: ...
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Linux Mint won't run virtualbox
I installed Linux Mint 11 Katya with Virtualbox 4.1 once and all was running fine. Then I reinstalled system, and I have a lot of software installed too (including Wine). But when I went through the ...
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Install ffmpeg 0.7.1-5 from debian package
I downloaded this package for ffmpeg.
When I try to install it with command
sudo dpkg -i ffmpeg_0.7.1-5_i386.deb
it writes this error message:
Unpacking ffmpeg (from ffmpeg_0.7.1-5_i386.deb) ...
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What is the Linux equivalent to C:\Program Files?
I understand that in Windows as well as Linux and Unix, a program|application|software can be installed in any directory. Also if packages are installed using the distribution's packaging system, ...
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Cleanly reinstalling an application
I am currently having problems with Hulu desktop, and want to reinstall it. However, when I attempt to uninstall and reinstall it, it saves my previous settings (even my username and password).
How ...
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How to find the installation path for a software under linux?
Under linux, I launch a software by typing, e.g., fluidplot. How can I find the installation path for this software?
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Can I have my own version control system?
In the linux/unix machine I am using, I am just a normal user. However, I want a version control system to manage my files to prevent accidental delete/rename/lost/modification. Obviously I don't have ...
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Trouble installing MySQL from binaries
So, I am a freshman in Computer Science, and I have dug an old computer out of my garage to use as a personal hosting server for various services (email, web site, subversion, etc.), partly because I ...
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How to figure out the exact package name of a `.so` file, so that it can be installed through `zypper`?
anisha@linux-dopx:~/tarBalls/qtFlash/bin> ./flashscript
./flashscript: error while loading shared libraries: libqtnmedia.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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How to find whether a software (which may `not` be in the PATH) is pre-installed or not?
anisha@linux-dopx:~> which qmake
which: no qmake in ...
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Need libca.so (Needed to install epics)
I need to install epics on my Ubuntu system, but when I try to it returns a warning saying it cannot find the dynamic library (libca.so or libCom.so). I tried to locate them, but it appears that they ...
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Wine installation problems in CentOS
Every time I use...
yum install wine
I get a message saying the package isn't found. I have used yum update but that does not work either. Moreover I accidentally ran chmod user:user /etc/yum...
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MEncoder install issue
I'm looking for a simple install guide for mencoder on a linux server via SSH.
Every guide I've come to so far links me to out of date versions.
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Installing a .deb package in home directory
Is it possible to install a .deb package completely under my home directory at debian?
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Upgrading ffmpeg
How can I upgrade ffmpeg to version 0.6 on debian-based operating system?
I'm using apt-get for installation and deb packages.
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What do I install into a given install prefix
Which directories should I expect to have in an install prefix when I'm writing makefiles? I've noticed that in the common prefix /usr, there is no /etc, yet there is an /include dir, which isn't in ...
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Automated PAM module installation
I'm trying to set up an automated install process for a PAM module that provides LDAP-like HTTP authentication. Since this is an alternative authentication module, I would need to add something like ...
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Can I install “development-tools” offline? Or, how to make my CD the yum repository?
I'm looking for the "development-tools" for Fedora, but I can't find information about how/where to download it to install offline (I have no internet connection in my Fedora).
Attempt 1: There's a ...
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Building from Source on CentOS 5 or newer
I've got a few applications of which I've got to build from source files in order to make it work on CentOS (the programs do not exist in the yum repos).
I may be missing something, but unlike Debian ...
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Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox 5.0 using terminal on CentOS?
On the screenshot below is an icon squared in red. Clicking it will launch Mozilla Firefox 3.0.18. I want to upgrade Firefox to version 5.0 so that clicking the same icon should launch the new ...
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Installing Rubymine without sun-java6-jre
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and am looking to install Rubymine. It seems every tutorial recommends installing sun-java6-jre before downloading rubymine but aptitude and apt-get are returning nothing, ...
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How can I build and install PL/R as a non-privileged user?
There is a postgres instance, and I have the ability to build my own instance.
Using these instructions I ran:
USE_PGXS=1 make
which worked but then
USE_PGXS=1 make install
did not, with this ...
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GRUB File Not Read Correctly
I was installing Gentoo when I ran into problems with the bootloader. Whether I used the automatic or manual installation method, GRUB always threw the following error:
The file /boot/grub/stage1 ...
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How to check that perf events are enabled in Linux kernel, and how to install perf userland as non-root?
From what I have checked it looks like kernel side of 'perf' subsystem is enabled on computer I work on.
Checking kernel configuration shows the following
$ zgrep "_PERF[_= ]" /proc/config.gz
...
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Installing Gentoo packages as an ordinary user (non-root)
Is it possible to install Gentoo packages (ebuild-enabled programs, programs with support for portage) as an ordinary user (non-root) to one's own home directory (--prefix=$HOME or sth. like that)?
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Installing KDE on Ubuntu Natty from cdrom
Currently I have Ubuntu 11.04 - Natty, with Unity as the default environment; but I just want to install KDE along-side it, and I don't have perfect bandwidth. So I took Kubuntu 11.04 cdrom from my ...
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how to Update QT 4.5.3 of OpenSuse 11.2 to QT 4.7.3?
I just installed QT 4.7.3 in OpenSuse 11.2 (which has 4.5.3). I ran configure, gmake, and gmake install, but when I check qmake's version, it's still returning 4.5.3.
What should I do?
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Problem installing software in UNIX (Sun Solaris)
I am new to UNIX. I have some software which need to be installed in UNIX.
I have below the list of OS provided by a third party software provider. Can anyone help me out: which OS Software will be ...
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Link a dependency in Synaptic to the one already installed from source
I want to install SVN version of Quantum GIS and already I have a SVN version of GRASS GIS. As instructed in QGIS Wiki here, I added the qgis repository to my sources.list file. Now I am able to see ...
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Non-Ebuild Programs on Gentoo
I like the "compile it yourself" philosophy that Gentoo runs on, but how is the support for non-ebuild programs? That might just mean binaries, but also programs in general that were not acquired ...
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install rtorrent failed using yum install rtorrent in CentOS
I want to install rtorrent as a client (NOT SeedBox). I tried the following command:
yum install rtorrent
I get following message:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached ...
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Modelsim for ubuntu
I am looking to download modelsim for ubuntu. But the site gives only .exe file. Can I still install the software? Does modelsim exist for ubuntu? If yes, where can I find it?
Thank you.
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Updates/applications/packages for Ubuntu 10.10 with no internet connection
I recently installed Ubuntu Desktop 10.10 (i.e 2h ago :D) from ISO CD.
All went smoothly but now I have an issue. I don't have a network connection.
I do not mean that there is a configuration ...
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How to disallow different automake versions from overwriting each other's binary files
I was using automake 1.11 without trouble, until some package required automake 1.10. When installing it, I found that it actually wants to overwrite /usr/bin/{aclocal,automake} (which were installed ...
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Install GCC on OpenSUSE 11.4
I installed OpenSUSE 11.4 but I noticed that it don't have gcc…
How I can install it?
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Where should I copy-paste-install software to?
I'm installing IntelliJ, and the readme tells me to choose an installation folder. Where is a good, standard place to put installed programs?
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“No such file or directory” lies on Optware installed binaries
I've been using Optware to install packages on my ARM-based NAS for a while - the usual stuff like Transmission, Samba and others. However, I'd been having problems with Transmission hanging not long ...
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How do I install mono's System.Windows.Forms on Ubuntu?
I haven't found any concise explanation of this.
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Unix install best practices, append to path or link through
I have some software I am about to ship (gradschool project) and I want to know on a unix machine what the best practices are for installing software.
I originally linked through /usr/local/bin my ...
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How to get files downloaded by yum?
I install a software package on Fedora from the terminal using the command like
# yum install live-usb-creator
Now at first it downloads some of the packages from online repository and then ...
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Installing mplayer in Linux
I don't know if this is the right forum to ask, I have started to use Linux (OpenSUSE). I need to install mplayer on it. I unpacked the mplayer archive. Then in the command screen I navigated to the ...
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installing Scilab in OpenSUSE 11.3
I want to install Scilab on OpenSUSE 11.3. Which repository is it located in? I cannot find it listed in the package manager. I have tried to install the rpm manually, but I cannot resolve the ...
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How do I know where to put things in linux?
Installing something in windows takes a click of a button. But every time I try to install something in linux, which is not found in APT, I get so confused.
You download a zipped folder, then what? ...
