Most software needs other software to work. Those "other softwares" are dependencies.
Questions tagged [dependencies]
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php-xml install complains of dependency php-common but this is already installed (CentOS)
How do I force php-xml to see the already installed dependency?
sudo yum install php-xml
complains about:
php-common = 5.1.6-34.el5_8
but running yum install php-common
php-common-5.1.6-34.el5_8.i386 already installed
[root@dtsrvishvt2 /]# sudo…

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Dependency Challenge with CentOS
Given the following output, suggestions on what to try first? This is on a CentOS 5.3 box (upgraded from 5.2 via yum) running as a little dev server. I'm generally comfortable with *nix, but dependency chasing leaves me a bit perplexed at times. So…

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Can't install Passenger for Apache
To set up Passenger some packages must be installed, for example libcurl4-openssl-dev:
user@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages…

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How do I make a service depend on another service on different server?
I have some java processes which need to be started by roster:
J1 on X --> J2 on Y --> J3 on Z
An idea comes to my mind is let J1 start automatically and use Nagios + NRPE to start J2 based the J1 state. Is there any better way to do this?

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How to identify missing dependencies when installing from source code?
How does system administrators identify which dependencies are missing when installing an application from source code?

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Applications not installing due to unmet dependencies
I was running Apache on Linode. I recently shifted to Lighttpd and removed apache, now whenever I try to install any application I get the following error.
ivineet:~# apt-get install subversion
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency…

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Fixing problems with yum, urllib2, and missing dependencies?
I've been trying to resolve the following problem with yum / python's urllib2:
[root@...]# yum
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 4, in ?
import yum
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 51,…

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Centos 6 yum update - Packages skipped because of dependency problems
I'm trying to keep my offsite backup server up to date so I've run an update and I'm getting dependency issues. I haven't got a clue how to continue. Below is the output from from YUM.
[root@localhost philosophy-admin]# yum update…

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Debian package installation problems - Bus errors, dpkg post-installation exit status 135
I tried to install curl support for php 5 on my debian squeeze machine and since I'm having problems.
After trying to install curl I got dependency issues which I tried to solve by removing what started the issues. From one thing came another and…

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A basic question with yum
I am trying to edit the source of a package and make it work. Thus, I didnt use yum install, I installed it from source and it is working. The package im building from source is libvirt. Now I want to install libvirt-python. I used yum install…

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Running application as user: MSComm32.ocx error
(I'm not sure this is the best place to ask this question, so if not, please redirect me to it)
I'm setting up a new win2008R2 terminal server and am having issues with an application that runs fine on our 2003 TS. If I run the application as a…

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How do I ignore unmet dependencies when using apt-get -f install?
I'm trying to use apt-get to install imagick. Should be simple enough. This is my command.
apt-get install imagemagick libmagickcore-dev libmagickwand-dev
However instead of installing it keeps bouncing back with this error message
The following…

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How do I as an application sys-admin monitor Verified by VISA and MasterCard SecureCode?
We integrate with 3 payment service providers in multiple countries, and sporadically we will get customer reports that the 3DSecure-check part of the payments-process is not working. We've yet to get adequate reports to troubleshoot the problem or…

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Use Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) packages on Debian 5.0 (Lenny) instalation
Currently I have installed Debian Lenny on virtualized server provided by my local ISP. I can't upgrade it, can configure it however I want, to Squeeze but I need newest package versions provided by Squeeze repository.
If I update…

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debian dependencies (libssl-dev and libncurses5)
I'm trying to install under RVM the Ruby Enterpise (REE) under debian
My debian is squeeze (uname -r)
2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.028stab070.14xen
i did try to install ree but it complains that it is missing libssl-dev and libreadline5-dev. I did update my…

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