Questions tagged [dependencies]
Additional software that some software requires to function
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Debian 'bullseye' - 'apt full-upgrade' removes whole lot of packages
I just run apt full-upgrade on my system:
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux bullseye/sid
Kernel: Linux 5.8.0-1-686-pae
Architecture: x86
and it removed a whole lot of packages:
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Installation of gcc on hpux
I need to install libffi-3.2.1-ia64_64-11.31.depot.gz on a hp-ux server. To install that I need the build-time dependencies make and gcc. I have installed make (64 bit) but I cannot find the gcc (64 ...
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Debian: how to purposely break dependencies for practice?
So, I've been using Debian with apt for quite some time, and I don't really have a good sense of understanding around apt and how it manages packages and dependencies.
What I really want is to ...
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Errors were encountered while processing libc6:amd64
I installed WSL Kali Linux, then I typed apt-get update so when I type apt-get dist-upgrade for upgrade then I saw this
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency ...
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how to solve E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution). while installing vlc on kali linux
Am getting the following error when I try to install vlc on kali linux
root@kali:~# apt-get install vlc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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Not able to initialize GUI for kali linux in wsl 2?
This error message is being displayed:
TigerVNC Viewer 32-bit v1.10.80
Built on: 2020-06-15 22:33
Copyright (C) 1999-2020 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.rst)
See https://www.tigervnc.org ...
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Unmet dependencies while trying to install virtual box on Debian Buster
I'm trying to install virtual box in Debian 10.5 and I'm getting error messages about unmet dependencies. Tried numerous solutions however nothing has worked. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated....
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Systemd ignores After and Requires for my service
I've created a service that runs a Bluetooth server application and is started like this:
[Unit]
After=bluetooth.service
Requires=bluetooth.service
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/sdptool ...
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How to fix broken packages in Kali Linux?
I was trying to update and upgrade my packages but when i executed the following command :
sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt update
The following message appeared :
Hit:1 https://download....
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can not download gnome-core dependencies for arm64 machine
I want to download gnome-core package dependencies to install on a debian 10 arm-64 device ,so I used this command :
sudo apt-cache depends -i gnome-core:arm64 | awk '/Depends:/ {print $2}' | xargs ...
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problem during uninstalling dnsmasq package
I'm trying to remove dnsmasq using command :
sudo dnf remove dnsmasq
but the dependencies of this package wondered me!
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Disable a pacman package and will not erase/delete it in
Isn't
pacman -R {a}
going to remove a fully from HDD ?
How do we only disable a pacman package not delete/remove it from filesystem ?
(as a good dependencies test)
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Dependency issues while updating through Discover app in kali linux kde
Whenever I try to update my existing system files and software using the Discover app in my kali linux kde, I get some certain dependency resolution errors, which halts the whole update process. And ...
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Dependency issue when installing landscape-client
I've been messing around with this issue for past 3 days and cannot wrap my head around it. The systems that I am working on is:
# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
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Oscillating version dependencies with pacman packge manager
An executable I needed to run required a new version of a the nettle library.
error while loading shared libraries: libnettle.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Checked ...
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Transmission 3.00 configure: error: OpenSSL support requested, but library not found
On Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon, I would like to know, why installing all listed required packages on Transmission official GitHub page did not exactly work. I can understand there was still something ...
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Fail to execute Tika with Maven
I'm installing Apache Tika v1.24 on the Ubuntu machine and hitting an error message at Tika-parsers.
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-bundle-plugin:4.1.0:bundle (default-bundle) @ tika-core ---
[INFO]
[INFO]...
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Unable to install or uninstall broken, half-installed package installed via dpkg
I last night installed a package sougoupinyin from a file sougoupinyin.deb via dpkg. I remember there being some missing dependencies that I didn't know how to take care of.
After I restarted my ...
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Debian 'bullseye' - no upgrade due to gnustep-base-runtime unmet dependencies
Upgrading my Debian 'bullseye' distribution does not work due to unmet dependencies.
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux bullseye/sid
Kernel: Linux 5.6.0-2-686-pae
Architecture: x86
When ...
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How to install 'libgnome2-0' in Ubuntu 19.10
I wanted to install the dependencies for Storage Made Easy Linux application (basically to sync with OneDrive)
Installed all the dependencies except one libgnome2-0, The error coming during ...
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Is it possible for an appimage to launch another appimage?
As I understand, an appimage is a binary + libs 'zipped' together in a way that, when the appimage is executed, a virtual filesystem is created that mounts the binary + its dependencies on my system ...
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Unmet dependency error when trying to install wine32 from kali
I am running a kali 2020.2 release vm with 5.4.0-kali3-amd64 kernel version. I'm trying to install wine32 package so I can run exe applications. Just stating, I have architecture i386 installed. Here ...
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How to search for dependencies for Java 8 yum install?
I inherited ansible playbook that installs java 1.8.0_181 via yum module on rhel server. My plan is to upgrade to java 1.8.0_221. While reviewing the playbook, I noticed it would install copy-jdk-...
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Circular dependencies when installing glibc
I am trying to install python3-pygrib on CentOS 7. First I needed to install eccodes, libpng and pyproj. Before those libraries, I need to install glibc231. I ran into circular dependencies trying to ...
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Unmet dependencies; cant upgrade the system
I tried to apt --fix-broken install and there is an output:
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Correcting dependencies... failed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:...
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apt - how to resolve not installable dependencies?
I am trying to install radare2 package. I have downloaded the .deb file from https://packages.debian.org/jessie/amd64/multiarch-support/download, and install it via apt: $sudo apt install -f ./...
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Where are installed packages’ dependencies stored?
Before installing, a package’s dependencies and conflicts are stored in the control file (of the .deb). Once the package is installed, where are the list its dependencies and conflicts?
I need to ...
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Unable to install wine32 on Debian
I am trying to run a Windows application in Wine but it tells me this:
it looks like wine32 is missing, you should install it.
as root, please execute "apt-get install wine32"
So as root, I try to ...
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Virt-Manager won't start due to problem with libxml2 not importing in python
I have been happily using KVM and virt-manger on Arch Linux for about a year now. This morning, one of my VMs broke (that is another story which I don't think is related), and I decided that it would ...
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Centos 5 - Installing puppet agent - missing ruby and a couple of dependencies
I know centos is no longer supported but I had to test something on Centos 5.11. I could not find any repo for rubygems. Any suggestion on how to get it working?
I used this RPM to install puppet ...
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how to force get/copy the dependencies list from gdebi-gtk?
If we try to install some package with gdebi-gtk and there are missing dependencies, when we click in "details" it will show a popup window.
It contains a tiny list field that we can barely read, the ...
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Installing dropbox on Debian 10: problem with libpango
I just install Debian 10 for the first time, and then dropbox, simply by downloading the .deb file and doing dpkg -i.
I got dropbox to run just fine, but unfortunately the install "broke" my apt, ...
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Problem installing nodejs on Centos (with yum and building from source)
I am trying to install lastest nodejs on CentOS:
[root@test-visitele ~]# uname -a
Linux test-visitele 3.10.0-1127.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 31 23:36:51 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@...
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how to installed the latest docker version without dependencies issues
We prepare the following in order to install docker on rhel 7.5 version
( from the list https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/7/x86_64/stable/Packages/ ) , and only the latest
curl https://...
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How to handle failed dependencies during installation of a deb package (with dpkg)
TL;DR;
If somebody installs my deb package with sudo dpkg -i example.deb, is there a way to add some custom actions (shell commands, similar to postinst) in case of installation with failed ...
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How do I install wmutils on Fedora easily?
I've tried to compile
https://github.com/wmutils/core
https://github.com/wmutils/libwm
But I get
CC util.c
util.c:4:10: fatal error: xcb/xcb.h: No such file or directory
4 | #include <xcb/...
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Best way to test dependencies of my .deb package?
I have a project that builds an application, which I want to release as a .deb package, initially uploaded to a website, and perhaps later on a PPA.
I'm not interested in adding it to any Linux ...
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Google-chrome installation on oracle linux 7.8 dependency problem
I'm trying to install google-chrome on Oracle Linux 7.8 (updated from 7.1). But it is failing due to libvulkan.so.1()(64 bit) dependency requirement. Please help on how to resolve this. I have tried ...
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How to fix held broken packages
I run into this while trying to install Wine on my Linux Mint 19.3, I don't know what else to do. Can someone help me with this?
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
[sudo] password ...
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Missing Python packages on CentOS 8
For a weeek I've been trying to install a piece of software on a fresh install of CentOS 8. The installation process and the software itself work fine on CentOS 7 but I was tasked with installing it ...
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kali themes and ruby progressbar error on kali linux after upgrading
when I tried to upgrade my kali linux to its 2020 version, its always returns with error code:
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/kali-themes_2020.2.1_all.deb (--unpack):
dpkg: ...
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How to find out what led to a specific package being installed [duplicate]
tl;dr: is there any way a user can find out what event led to the installation of a particular package onto their OS? For instance, if package bar is found to be installed, is there a way to show that ...
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`apt` doesn't remove dependencies that were automatically installed
System : Ubuntu 18.04
apt doesn't remove jackd's dependency jackd2 (and its own dependencies) after uninstalling jackd :
$ sudo apt install jackd
The following additional packages will be installed:
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How does `apt` check for dependency removal when uninstalling/purging ? AkA Help me understand the behavior of `apt`
I was fiddling with sound on linux and tried installing the package jackd. This is the relevant excerpt of what apt returned :
$ sudo apt install jackd
The following additional packages will be ...
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Cannot install InkScape due to problems with Imagemagick dependency in Ubuntu 16.04
I am trying to install the latest version of inkscape on my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS OS but it returns the following error:
sudo apt install inkscape
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree ...
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How to detect a Debian package that is no longer needed after an upgrade of its previously dependent package?
Let's say, there is a Debian package named Foo, whose version 1.1.1 depends on a package named Bar.
Imagine that there is a newer version of Foo==1.1.2, which doesn't depend on Bar anymore.
After an ...
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Forcing apt /yum to NOT install dependencies
Is there a command line option that would tell apt or yum to not install the Depends packages of a package when installing?
In python/pip I could do this:
pip3 install --no-deps -r requirements.txt
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libc6 dependency mismatch in Debian 9.12 stretch
I have the following libc6 dependency problem in Debian 9.12 stretch.
sudo apt install libc6-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some ...
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Library uses default libraries instead of news ones
I have seen multiple questions about this but didn't see an answer that matched me.
I have a library that requires other libraries. I have used patchelf to change which libraries should be looked at. ...
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How to fix access denied even as owner when cleaning the cache?
I am trying to clean the cache. I am running linux penguin 4.19.79 using a chromebook. I have run apt clean and apt-get clean to no avail. I get permission design. I have attached a screenshot of the ...
