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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How to easily install proprietary NVIDIA driver on LMDE 7?
In the following days, I intend to reinstall my Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon.
Originally, I have thought I would go for the newly released LMDE 7 (Linux Mint Debian Edition) based on Trixie.
I only have one ...
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unable to select packages: breaks iotop, satisfies iotop ... huh?
I'm using Alpine Linux 3.18 and I'm trying to install iotop.
# apk add iotop
ERROR: unable to select packages:
python3-3.11.12-r1:
breaks: iotop-0.6-r13[python3~3.12]
satisfies: iotop-0.6-...
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Virtual Box to Apple Desktop Help
I have been having issue trying to download a virtual box onto my apple desktop that's running on Catalina (mac/intel processor). I have tried about 4 separate times and keep running into issues. ...
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A bash script problem installing Apache Cloudberry - it's a generic setup script - just isn't working for me
This is a fairly bog-standard script, but my bash knowledge isn't huge, so here goes.
The script is from here - the Apache Cloudberry project - an interesting open source version of a distributed ...
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How to install "Server with GUI" on Rocky Linux 9.6 without reinstalling?
I just installed Rocky Linux 9.6 on a Dell R740xd. During the installation, I don't remember seeing an option to add the Server with GUI Environment Group.
Now the system has booted, i'd like to ...
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How to install fastfetch on SteamOS?
I just installed SteamOS onto my laptop, but it doesn't have fastfetch or neofetch installed by default.
How can I install this on SteamOS?
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While apt-get install package=version won't downgrade due to dependencies, would the install of lower version than the current candidate always work?
On an Ubuntu machine, I have installed percona-server-server with version at 8.4.3-3-1.noble.
I noticed I could install a package at a specific version via:
$ apt-get install percona-server-server=8.4....
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How may I install a specific version of a package only if the installed version is not higher
Given an Ubuntu machine using apt or apt-get, is there a built-in or recommended way to check if a package is installed at a minimum version?
A package may be available in multiple versions:
apt-cache ...
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How do I install Betterbird on Linux?
The download page has Linux as an option, but after extracting the files I just have the binary and supporting files. Where do I put the files for installation? Is there a script or something like ...
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How do I install Microsoft Powershell on CachyOS Linux?
The official docs doesn't have a section for CachyOS or Arch Linux.
I tried following some guides online to build it myself, to install AUR, snap, pacman, and I don't know what other methods, but none ...
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Gentoo install Gnome and GDM?
I have a fresh installation of Gentoo to which I would like to add the Gnome desktop and the GDM display manager. Installing Gnome works, but installing GDM results in errors I am having a hard time ...
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OBS does not recognize Blackmagic Capture Card as a Video Source
I am trying to configure my Blackmagic DeckLink Quad HDMI Recorder to work with OBS on Arch Linux.
On Windows, I could go to their website, install their Desktop Video 14.5 Program. Once the drivers ...
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Arch Linux: pacman -Syyuu does not change mirrors
I am currently installing Arch Linux on a new computer using a Live USB. While installing basic packages, one package failed to download.
> pacman -Syu --needed sudo gnome gnome-extra amd-ucode
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Installing the Lua scripting language
I want to write some scripts in lua, but is not installed on my Trisquel 11 system (based on Ubuntu 22.04).
I want to write scripts for my Ubuntu 22.04 tools.
Have looked at Synaptic Package Manager. ...
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Kali install rootless edition on termux failed with error 404
I'm trying to install Kali rootless edition on my smartphone within termux but I get error 404 when launching install-nethunter-termux
I've follow the official site: https://www.kali.org/docs/...
