Questions tagged [dependencies]
Most software needs other software to work. Those "other softwares" are dependencies.
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How do I get apt-get to ignore some dependencies?
How do I make apt-get ignore some dependencies? For example, I wanted to install mailx so I can use it to send email from cron scripts/report-generating tools. However, installing mailx also installs ...
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How to list RPM dependencies?
Our production server is running CentOS release 5.2 (Final).
How do I see/get/list all the dependencies of an already installed RPM package?
For example: SQLite v3.3.6 is already installed in the ...
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Linux: how to restore config file using apt-get/aptitude?
I've occasionally lost my config file "/etc/mysql/my.cnf", and want to restore it. The file belongs to package mysql-common which is needed for some vital functionality so I can't just purge &&...
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Install only dependencies of a given package in Debian or Ubuntu (apt)
Is there a better way to install only the required dependencies of a package, instead of installing it directly with apt-get (or any other frontend of dpkg) and then immediately removing it, leaving ...
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Debian: How to use "apt-get install" without upgrading dependencies?
I already have a package B and want to install a new package A. The installation wants to modify B, but I don't want that to happen.
I need to install the package A.
It has the a dependency on ...
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Can you help me with my software dependency issue?
This is a Canonical Question about Compile Dependencies and Package Management.
I have a question regarding compiling ports/software or installing RPMs on my *nix server. When I try to do this I ...
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How can I predict systemd's shutdown order?
Is there a way to get systemd to tell me the rough order in which it will shutdown services when I cleanly shut the whole system down? Since systemd will shut things down in parallel, I appreciate ...
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Best strategy to keep chef cookbooks versions under control
I'm looking for ideas about chef cookbooks versions management. I know that you pin specific versions in the environment, but I'm not sure how to go about it.
We use librarian-chef which installs 3rd ...
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How do I ignore unmet dependencies while using apt-get remove?
I have a thin VPS running Ubuntu 14.04 with automatic security updates. It has filled up the /boot partition with a lot of kernel updates. I am trying to remove the older ones, but I'm running into an ...
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Howto get yum to install only dependencies for a given pakage?
I am looking for a way to have yum install only dependencies for a given package, something like an --prepare-for-install option so I can take a snapshot of the prepared system and test the rpm setup ...
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How to fix locales on Debian Wheezy after broken update from jessie repository
I tried to install nodejs and npm packages on my VDS with Debian Wheezy.
But not to compile source and by the laziness, I found instruction in the Internet to include jessie sources and install from ...
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How to manage Nagios dependencies on big clusters?
I'm using quite a big nagios configuration (about 4000 services), without any dependencies. This results in a huge mess of notifications when something goes wrong.
I try to look for best practices ...
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YUM dependency issue even though library is installed
We build our own php and mysql packages from source, this one is for the php-5.4.10 release, and host these at our own repository. Let's call this package custom-php and custom-mysql(-libs & -...
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Creating a script to install a Perl application and its dependencies automatically
I have a Perl application that needs a lot of dependencies that i need to deploy on numerous servers
I would like to make a script that installs that Perl application automatically and quickly.
To ...
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How do I make one service dependent on another in Windows 7?
If I view properties for a service, I can see the "Dependencies" tab, but I can't assign other services to this tab.
I have two services that start on startup, a server and a database. The server ...
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Debian: "apt install build-essential" fails because of unmet dependencies
Using Debian Stretch v9.11.
I try to install build-essential, but fails because of unmet dependencies:
sudo apt install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading ...
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What can I do to safely repair my yum packages after a bad update?
I'm running amazon linux on an EC2 micro box. Recently I ran sudo yum update --security in the hope that it would patch Heartbleed. Unfortunately I ran out of memory during the update process and some ...
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Unable to install or update using yum
When trying to install or update anything in yum, I get a list of requires, removing and obsoleted by:
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror
Setting up Update Process
Determining fastest ...
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Is npm designed to be used to manage client-side dependencies as well?
I'm using Composer to manage my PHP dependencies, and would be happy to do the same with my JS dependencies.
I stumbled upon NPM for Node.js, and am wondering if it's supposed to be used as a client-...
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Automatically start docker container's linked dependencies
I run gitlab in a docker container and it separates its dependencies (MySQL, Redis, Mailserver) quite nicely into separate docker containers. Running them is not a problem, I start them in reverse ...
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Puppet: create service before file but notify service if file changes
I want file "run" to be created AFTER Service nginx, but also i want to notify Service nginx if file run changes. Notify implies that it is run BEFORE nginx.
The use case is the following. We use dj ...
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Linux says a kernel module has an unknown symbol, but another loaded module provides it
I'm trying to install a driver for a USB DAQ box, which annoyingly, I have to compile myself. I believe I've succeeded -- I have two .ko files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45271 2010-03-18 21:24 ...
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DEB: "Provides:" field ignored
I need to replace a package with a custom one, which gets its own name (foo-origpackage). To allow it to be used as drop-in replacement, I added the Provides: origpackage line to the control file. apt-...
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Why does "apt-get autoremove sendmail" leave dependencies behind?
I have noticed that installing sendmail, then uninstalling it, using apt-get will leave many unwanted files behind.
sudo apt-get install sendmail
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency ...
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yum depsolving problems - package already installed?
In trying to do a 'yum update' I've started to hit the following error on a number of my systems:
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: freetype = 2.2.1-28.el5_5 for package: ...
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How to interpret this yum dependency error?
I'm trying to install XRDP and I'm hitting the following:
[root@box ~]# yum -y install xrdp
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: centos....
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Handling FreeBSD package upgrades using pkg_add
I'm trying to use FreeBSD's pkg_add command to install and upgrade binary packages in a build-once-install-on-multiple-machines sort of scenario. It works well when installing a new package, but ...
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Nagios: Only send notification when all 4 host are down
As part of a larger complex, is a small office building with 4 computers. It has a single cat5 run to a non-managed switch that has 4 computers connected to it.
Since I can't ping the switch, the ...
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apt-get dist-upgrade failing on mssql-tools and msodbcsql17 packages, ubuntu 16.04
I did regular upgrade of packages as always and something broke, cant even purge the packages due broken dependencies. The server is Ubuntu 16.04 on Azure. We are using MySQL on this server, so this ...
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Puppet dependency ordering with ensure absent
Puppet supports the concept of resource dependencies where one resource will not by synced until another is synced first. For example, the following Puppet fragment will create the user user1 and the ...
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Install package from oldstable (wheezy) to stable (jessie)
I want to install the package which is missing in jessie from wheezy. It is like backport the other way. I need gcc-4.7, but jessie provides only gcc-4.9. Unstable provides gcc-4.7 only for arm ...
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Yum: php55w-common conflicts with php-common-5.4
I am trying to install mysqli on a CentOS machine using yum install php-mysqlnd.x86_64 on the command line but I keep getting the message:
Error: php55w-common conflicts with php-common-5.4.16-36....
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What is the most simple way to install newer versions of RabbitMQ and Erlang on Ubuntu 10.04?
I need to use RabbitMQ on Ubuntu 10.04. I have installed it before, but it was for code testing/learning purposes. I want to use newer versions of Erlang and RabbitMQ than the ones provided in the ...
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openVPN centOS 6.4 64bit dependency issues
Everytime I download the openVPN rpm (http://mirror.its.sfu.ca/mirror/CentOS-Third-Party/epel/6/x86_64/openvpn-2.2.2-1.el6.x86_64.rpm) and try to install it, I'm running into dependency issues.
What ...
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rpmbuild on CentOS 6.3 64-bit - broken dependencies
I'm trying to build a package using rpmbuild on 64-bit CentOS 6.3 server.
Here is the spec file:
Name: test-fms
Version: 1.0
Release: 1%{?dist}
Summary: my FMS Package
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Per-application library paths on CentOS
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After a recent version upgrade of a bunch of our server software, I've found myself in a dilemma:
I have two sets of applications (Zend server and assorted utils, and a bunch of PostgreSQL ...
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How to manage dependencies on PEAR packages
It seems to me that PEAR is picking up steam again, at least as a distribution mechanism. With the availability of simple PEAR channel servers that are actually simple (e.g. Pirum) it seems many ...
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Which RPM fixes this failed RedHat dependency?
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I'm installing an RPM on RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 and it fails with the following error:
error: Failed dependencies:
rpmlib(PayloadIsLzma) <= 4.4.6-1 is needed by vspd-1/43-rsmu.i586
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How to remove duplicates after a failed yum update?
I probably ran out of memory when I tried to update packages on my CentOS system. Now when I try to run updates it got stuck:
Error: Package: glibc-devel-2.17-157.el7_3.5.x86_64 (@updates)
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Compile software from source : how do I collect a dependency list?
I'd like to compile Nginx 1.9.8 from source and install it on a Ubuntu 14.04 server. However, and this goes for any software, how do I figure out which dependencies I need to install on my local ...
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How to uninstall IIS from Windows Server 2008
I'm struggling with uninstalling IIS from Windows Server 2008. I went into Server Manager > Roles > Remove Roles > unchecked IIS > that prompted me to also remove dependencies. Every time the "...
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Unable to install python2.7-dev due to unmet dependencies Ubuntu 12.04
Having exactly the same problem described on this page: http://qnundrum.com/answer.php?q=431114
Below is directly quoted from that page:
I am unable to install python-dev becasue of unmet ...
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aide --init show lots of errors
I have a brand new centos 6.2 server. The first thing I did is yum -y install aide and then next I did aide --init. Below is a whole lot of errors I got.What does it means must I reinstall it? Or ...
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yum update dependency error (already installed)
i'm facing the following error:
Transaction Check Error:
package apr-1.3.12-1.jason.1.x86_64 (which is newer than apr-1.2.7-11.el5_6.5.cloudlinux.2.i386) is already installed
This is on cloudlinux. ...
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apt-get remove package that didn't install properly
I accidentally installed zabbix-frontend-php that pulled apache2 as a dependency.
I don't want to use either, and I want to completely delete both packages.
Unfortunately, it seems that apt-get won'...
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Checking deb dependencies against the current system
I know I can list the .deb's dependencies using dpkg --info, but is there any automated way to check those dependencies against the current system? What I'm interested in, the status: whether the ...
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Install libxml2.8 on RHEL 6
I want to install the software TinyOWS on a RHEL 6 server. I followed the instructions:
wget http://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/tinyows-1.1.0.tar.bz2
tar xvjf tinyows-1.1.0.tar.bz2
cd tinyows-1.1.0
./...
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Problem installing build-essential and upgrading g++ on Ubuntu 8.04
I'm having some trouble with dependencies it seems, but myself don't really know how to resolve the issue. Here's the output:
~:) sudo apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
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Duplicity 0.7.10 fails after upgrading librsync in Ubuntu 14.04
I've spent a few hours trying to configure Duplicity to perform automated remote backups to a Google Drive. At this point, it's safe to say that I'm in my own private dependency hell.
Using the ...
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