Most software needs other software to work. Those "other softwares" are dependencies.
Questions tagged [dependencies]
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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 projects are moving towards PEAR as a distribution…

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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 package will be cleanly installed, or will it fail.

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Which RPM fixes this failed RedHat dependency?
Problem
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
Question
Which package contains rpmlib? I've…

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How to Identify Unnecessary Windows Applications
We're currently going through a process of using Qualys scans to find security vulnerabilities on Windows servers in our enterprise.
We are finding quite a number of older Windows applications on our servers that we think are being installed by…

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Let's Encrypt certbot-auto setuptools version error when run from cron
CentOS 6, certbot 0.16.0. When I run it manually as root (not by sudo) everything works. When I setup /etc/crontab to run it automatically it returns an error:
Error: couldn't get currently installed version for…

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Using mozjpeg in place of jpeg-turbo including satisfying dependencies
I'm trying to use mozjpeg as a drop-in replacement library for jpeg-turbo. I'm perfectly able to fetch the sources and compile them as needed and even create a deb-file from it which I can use to install the package (e.g. apt-get install…

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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 version of Duplicity that came with my distribution…

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debian wheezy requiring libc6 >= 2.14
Yesterday I tried to upgrade my debian wheezy to jessie version and it was unsuccessful - server does not boot anymore. I connect to shell, tried to reverse upgrade, but unfortunately, made everything even worse. Now I am sitting with bunch of…

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Depends: gcc-4.9-base (= 4.9.1-16ubuntu6) but it is not installed
I came along this problem when i tried to install php5-curl on my Ubuntu 14.04.
I ran: sudo apt-get install php5-curl and got:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f…

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Update CentOS from DVD without internet
How to install and update packages from DVD which I mounted? What I do so far is to mount the DVD.
#mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt/DVD
So now is there a way to update it automatic all packets or I must do one by one? For example:
yum…

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CentOS 6.5 Dependency errors while installing hhvm
I am trying to install hhvm on newly created droplet. For this, I am following this guide.
After adding the Gleez repository, I tried running
yum update && yum upgrade
Lots of lines, and then at the end:
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error:…
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Control the order yum dependencies are installed?
I need to install an application that has 4 dependencies (output from .spec file):
Requires: PA-KBU-KBUONE-SHARED
Requires: PA-KBU-KBUONE-PLI-CONF
Requires: PA-KBU-KBUONE-PLA-CONF
Requires: PA-KBU-KBUONE-PLA-BIN
These 4 dependencies must be…

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Install php53 on CentOS 5.10 without httpd dependency
I would like to install php53 on CentOS 5.10 64-bit without the httpd dependency. The reason being the production server has a custom compiled binary of a newer version of httpd.
Is installing php53 on CentOS5 without the httpd dependency even…

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Building the necessary dependencies when apt-get installing on Ubuntu
I've got an Ubuntu 12.04.2 server and I want to install Postgres 9.2.4. If I wanted to build all dependencies, I couldn't use apt-get build-dep (at least without some finagling) because only 9.1 is available to apt-get install. This leaves me in a…

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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
Building dependency tree
Reading state…

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