Questions tagged [software-installation]
Installing software on a running system, either as binaries or from source. This is usually done using your system's package manager.
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pjllib install on ubuntu
Feel like a total noob,but could someone please guide me on how to install the printer job language commands found at
PJL-lib
I am not quite sure how to compile this to run the pft command. I am on ...
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Kali nethunter installation error on android using Termux (404 not found)
I was trying to install kali nethunter on my android mobile (android 13) and when i ran the
./install-nethunter-termux
command, I got the following response :
--2023-09-25 13:33:06-- https://kali....
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How to install OBS studio on Arch Linux without flatpak?
I am trying to install OBS studio using the standard Arch Linux repository instead of Flatpak.
First I visited the Github page to find dependencies.
xserver-xorg version 1.18.4 or newer is ...
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Does getting WiFi working on Debian 12 really require an internet connection on the device in question?
When booting a fresh install of Debian 12 Bookworm I'm met with a message saying I need to go to https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware ...
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How to install slocate in Ubuntu
I have seen several references to the slocate command [1][2] as a more secure alternative to the locate command. However I cannot install it using sudo apt install slocate. I also cannot find any ...
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How to install specific-package-version (when multiple version available from multiple repos) in Archlinux?
I'm trying to install nim-2.0 in my system.
When I try to install with pacman -S nim or yay -S nim It direclty installs the nim-1.6.... version.
How to install package when there is multiple versions ...
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Command to open directly "download new plasma widgets"
Widgets are an essential part of Plasma/KDE, and I have always found rather odd and cumbersome the way of accessing the interface to install them, by
right-clicking the panel or the desktop,
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How to update programs compiled from source (from Github)?
I'm using Debian 12. I recently followed this guide (https://stopanddecrypt.medium.com/running-bitcoin-lightning-nodes-over-the-tor-network-2021-edition-489180297d5#13c5) to install some software, and ...
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Is it possible for runtime .NET Core 3.1 and 6.0 to coexist on an Ubuntu system
Is it possible for runtime .NET Core 3.1 and 6.0 to coexist on an Ubuntu system (for example, Ubuntu 22.04)?
Let me explain, I have a computer where I need both runtimes, but either I install one or ...
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How to disambiguate a second version of an installation from command-line?
I installed a tool called herd (http://diy.inria.fr/herd/). The original version of this I think is in the global path so I can call it from anywhere by writing herd7. Now I also have a second ...
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How do I install the manual pages on NetBSD?
I've done a "Minimal" installation of NetBSD 9.3 from the ISO image, just to examine the behavior of one particular command (mktemp) as it differs from Linux.
I'm not seeing man pages for… ...
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Installing sile from source fails
I am trying to install sile. A Debian package is not provided yet so I decided to build from source. Manual
Install Lua
$ curl -R -O http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.4.6.tar.gz
$ tar -xf lua-5.4.6.tar....
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Dyalog (APL) +RIDE issue
I am currently running a vanilla Arch machine and I wanted to try out APL. Dyalog only provides deb and rpm packages, but I saw a dyalog-bin pkgbuild in the AUR, and it seems to be pulling from the ...
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Trying to install discord
Trying to install discord but then this happens.
Creating config file /etc/gconf/2/path with new version
Setting up libdbusmenu-gtk4:amd64 (18.10.20180917~bzr492+repack1-3) ...
Setting up libayatana-...
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How do i install Maria DB Server on a offline Centos VM?
I have a VM running CentOS 7 and need to install Maria DB server on it but i cannot use yum install or any other online based installation because the VM has no internet connection. How do i install ...
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Installing screen 4.9.0 on a Raspberry Pi
I am working on a script which requires the terminal emulator program “screen” to work.
Unfortunately, version 4.8.0 which is the only one I can by default download easily via sudo apt-get install ...
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Installing PongoOS fork on Debian results in no makefile binaries
I am attempting to install this fork of PongoOS onto Debian 12.1 using these instructions and the last step I have taken was enter the following into the terminal:
EMBEDDED_CC=clang EMBEDDED_LDFLAGS=-...
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Getting errors Configuring binutils
I am following this tutorial and I am stuck at the installation part of binutils while getting an error log pointing at a missing input file.
gcc: fatal error: no input files compilation terminated.
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Updates on Manjaro Error message during update
I'm new to Manjaro, I have a little knowledge of Linux and I'm trying to learn more.
However I had a notification from Package Manager informing me that updates were available.
I then had a ...
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In FlatPak, is it possible to always install packages under system instead of user?
On Debian/Ubuntu based Linux, the most common 3 package managers are apt, flatpak & snap.
Both apt & snap install packages for all users by default, flatpak is the only exception.
This has ...
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downloaded application doesn't launch in Debian 12
I had tried to install package from developers' site/
root@debian:/home/lm/Downloads/telegram# dir
Telegram tsetup.4.8.9.tar.xz
root@debian:/home/lm/Downloads/telegram# tar -xvf tsetup.4.8.9.tar.xz
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make install not updating link
I have installed emacs using
sudo make install
The above is supposed to make emacs available system wide
So how does the link in /usr/local/bin still point to the older version
ls -lrt /usr/local/bin/...
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How to use new programs/applications without internet or root access?
I am given a computer without root or internet access. (It is running Ubuntu 18.04)
It seems to be installed with minimal installation and it seem to lack most of the common application-level package ...
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Using latest version of emacs
I have installed an instance of emacs
using
make install
But how can I then run it. There is a link
ls -lrt /usr/local/bin/emacs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Sep 9 2022 emacs -> emacs-29.0....
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How do I install Java for all users?
I need to install Java 8 on my raspberry pi. I used SDKMan to do so, following this tutorial.
All works well only if I use java from my admin account (the one I used to install it). Trying to run java ...
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How can install vim on the new debian12 version?
Version conflict when to install vim on my debian12:
sudo apt install vim
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be ...
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How to Inject a .ko Driver into a Linux ISO?
I'm currently working on a project where I need to inject a .ko (kernel object) driver into a Linux ISO (CentOS). I've been trying to find a way to do this, but I haven't been successful so far.
Here'...
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Can you install two instances of the same desktop environment?
Probably a stupid question, but I've been using a DE that's still in development (NsCDE) and I've encountered a bug that fundamentally impacts my ability to use it. I cannot seem to fix it after weeks ...
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Install a package and its associated or required shared libraries (.so) without sudo access
I needed to install ffmpeg on my company's server without sudo access. Here is how I did it:
Add $HOME/bin and $HOME/usr/bin to my PATH, and $HOME/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ to my LD_LIBRARY_PATH
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VirtualBox Guest Additions on Rocky or Alma Linux 9.2
I've been trying to install VirtualBox Guest Additions
in VMs of both Rocky Linux and Alma Linux version 9.2
(with VirtualBox version 7.0.8).
After running the install script, it states that it '...
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After installing meld via pip, I can't run it
I've installed meld as a non-root user via pip install meld (on a relatively old distribution - SLES 15).
After installation, I see a file named /home/joeuser/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/meld/...
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How to correctly install MEGASync for Pop-os 22.04 so it does not crash?
I am runnign Pop-os 22.4 LTS. Recently my MEGASync app would crash when I would drop the menu to show what it is uploading and downloading. The app gives me the following error message (link below). I ...
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How to install torch for cuda in Linux?
I would like to install pytorch for cuda, but getting had package conflicts. How to resolve this?
$ uname -r
3.10.0-1160.71.1.el7.x86_64
$ python -c "import torch; print(torch.version.cuda)"...
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Wrongly installed same application twice - how to recognize the latest and remove the other?
Sorry for the stupid question, but somehow I've wrongly installed VSCode twice (probably the first time manually and the second one from the official repo), so now when searching for 'vscode' I get ...
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How to remove APT and dpkg from a Debian installation?
A couple of years ago I made a live-image for personal uses (a mixture of use cases) using debootstrap, chroot, and squashfs-tools
Now i want to re-design the distro, update the software in it, add ...
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Pre-install debian on a drive by plugging it into a computer other than the one it is intended for
I have an APU2 machine which outputs everything via its serial console. Is it possible to plug its mSATA drive into my windows laptop, install Debian using a live CD and then plug it back into APU2?
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Cannot intall any software on Ubuntu 22.04
I'm new to ubuntu and installed Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS 64-bit and Gnome version 42.5. I installed linux alongside windows. The ubuntu version is required by my instructor in college.
But when I tried to ...
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Undefined reference error while building dssp
I am having following error when I try to run make command for dssp 3.1.4 installation in Ubuntu.
make all-am make[1]: Entering directory '/mnt/d/MD_SecR_20230405/Martini3/Martini3/dssp-3.1.4' g++ -g -...
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Failure to install MySQL server at AlmaLinux
I try to install MySQL server at Almalinux v. 8.7
$ sudo dnf install mysql
PostgreSQL 9.6 for RHEL/CentOS 8 - x86_64 757 B/s | 146 B 00:00
Errors during downloading metadata for ...
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AlmaLinux Postgersql installation error
I've followed the instruction at here to install Postgresql at AlmaLinux. But the error persists.
$ sudo yum install -y postgresql15-server
The error:
PostgreSQL 9.6 for RHEL/CentOS 8 - x86_64 ...
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adding a Debian repository: what are the pros and cons?
Looking for software, including less free, proprietary style e.g. visual studio code, github-cli, spotify:
What are the downsides and upsides of adding or configuring a Debian repository?
Debian wiki ...
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How to install QGIS on Ubuntu 22.04?
I am attempting to install QGIS on my Ubuntu 22.04. I am following these steps https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#debian-ubuntu. Unfortunately I don't understand the following ...
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Unable to delete data of flatpak - connection is closed error
I was using KdenLive but I messed up some of the settings so I decided to do a fresh install. When I used the GUI to remove then reinstall, the settings were intact. Then I went to the terminal and ...
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Installing Linux on HP Pavilion 360, preventing loops that eat all resources
When installing a Linux OS (e.g. Mint) from a live cd (now more likely: from a live USB stick, or using Ventoy), editing /etc/default/grub does not solve the problem. You can add or edit a line like
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Kali installation on vm´s
the question is directed more towards the installation options in virtual machines, I would like to know if I can install kali but inside the virtual machine, that is, download it already within the ...
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Can data be recovered from a directory wiped out by a compiler's install task?
I cloned gradle from https://github.com/gradle/gradle and worked on building it on linux x86_64 (Fedora 37). I did not modify any of the configuration files. As gradle finished building, it erased/...
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Can't install git on Ubuntu 22.04 - unmet dependencies
I had git installed on my Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, but recently it became uninstalled somehow. git --version displays Command 'git' not found, but can be installed with: sudo apt install git.
Trying to ...
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Compiling with Boost on Manjaro with Python 3.10
I'm trying to use the Cornell-MOE software. When trying to install it using python setup.py install, I run into the following error:
[...]
running install_scripts
Could not find env var MOE_CMAKE_PATH ...
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Can I make Tkinter available in virtual environments, without including it in the system Python?
I am running Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon, and I have some virtual environments created (using the standard library venv module) from the system Python (no other Python installations), which is version 3....
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Imagemagick not found by other apps, but needs to be updated in any case. How best to remove and install v7-
I am running Mint 21.1 64 bit. I believe that Imagemagick v6.. was installed via the 'synaptic package manager'.
I now require Imagemagick v7, to dovetail with another app that will not work with v6 ...
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