Questions tagged [dependencies]

Most software needs other software to work. Those "other softwares" are dependencies.

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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 state information... Done Some packages could not…
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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 packages did not successfully patch. I attempted…
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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 depends on the database - if the db hasn't started,…
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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 mirrors epel/metalink …
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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 order: the dependencies first, than gitlab…
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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 bernsteins daemontools for managing nginx. Since…
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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-side dependency manager as well. For example, I…
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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 advdrv_core.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24312…
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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.serverspace.co.uk * epel: mirrors.coreix.net * extras:…
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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 package could be just Azure thing? Output…
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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 tree Reading state information... Done The following…
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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 architecture. I plan to add wheezy repo into my surces…
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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.el7_1.x86_64 You could try using --skip-broken to…
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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 group group1 but it will create the group…
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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 Lucid Lynx repositories for actual use, because many…
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