Questions tagged [software-installation]
Installing software on a running system, either as binaries or from source.
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What is the PATH environment variable and how do I add to it?
I just installed picc-9.82.9453-linux.run from Microchip website, and at the end it asked me
==> NOTE: You may wish to add the following
/usr/hitech/picc/9.82/bin
to your PATH ...
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How do I install Firefox 52 ESR on 16.04?
This question asks how to install FF32 bit while keeping the 64 bit.
I want the much more simple thing: is there a canonical way to install firefox 52 ESR as "default" firefox in my 16.04?
I found ...
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How to install vmware tools?
I installed my Ubuntu in vmware, no I need install vmware tools, I got error:
Searching for a valid kernel header path...
The path "" is not valid.
Would you like to change it?[yes]
In ...
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How do I remove the LAMP stack so I can start over?
I'd like to start over with my webserver and I'd like to reinstall all the LAMP packages, how do I do that?
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Error in installing Steam on ubuntu 15.04 [duplicate]
agung@agung-K43SJ:~$ steam
Running Steam on ubuntu 15.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)
libGL error: unable to load ...
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How do I figure out what package something is in without resorting to Google?
I often find myself wanting to install something, but I'm unsure of what package it's in. This is a very common occurrence for me:
$ make html
sphinx-build -b djangohtml -d _build/doctrees . _build/...
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How to install Blender from the official website
I installed Blender from official Ubuntu repository but its version is always behind the version available from the official Blender website.
I'm aware that I can launch the program within the ...
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Can't install Oracle Java 8 in Ubuntu 16.04
I haven’t installed anything strange in my Ubuntu 16.04 Server. I did some tests in my Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop VM some hours before and installation was successful, but in my dedicated it seems something ...
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Ubuntu 14.04, problem when install gstreamer1.0-libav, unmet dependencies
Suddenly my Ubuntu stopped playing video. When I open a video, the player suggests that I install gstreamer1.0-libav. However, it fails to install.
I tried installing it manually, here is the error ...
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Can I install Kali tools on Ubuntu?
I want to know if there is any way to install Kali tools like sqlmap, nikto, john, aircrack-ng, ... on Ubuntu 12.04?
If yes, then how should I proceed?
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How to install wps office via terminal?
It's pretty complicated and sometimes the system freezes when I try to download and install wps office. I think it is much more convenient to use the terminal. But I never used installed WPS Office ...
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How do I uninstall MySQL?
I installed MySQL using sudo apt-get. Now I need to remove it from my system.
How can I do that?
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How do I install the latest version of Git with apt?
I read about a security flaw in Git, which was fixed in version 2.2.1. I currently have Git 2.1.0 on my system (Ubuntu 14.10), and tried to reinstall it with apt. However, apt told me that I currently ...
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How can I install a .bin file?
I want to update Acrobat Reader for Firefox, but the download has the .bin extension. How can I install it?
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How to install X11/xorg?
My 12.04 x64 system won't boot into GUI, but I can still use virtual console with my own account, so apparently it's the Windows Management System that's causing it, how can I reinstall it from tty, ...
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install gnome-shell on ubuntu 16.04
I tried to install gnome-shell on Ubuntu 16.04 and when configuring I choose gdm as my default desktop but after I reboot I didn't see the login screen , only the black screen with Ubuntu logo and ...
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How to remove all i386 packages from Ubuntu 64bit?
Over the time I installed many i386 packages, which I no longer need. How can I clean up the system and stay only with the amd64 packages?
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How to remove the graphical user interface?
Okay my question is that, I want to run a heavy application, on a Virtual Machine (VirtualBox) with just 2 GB RAM (Windows 7 32Bit Host has 4 GB, 3.5 GB effective). Initially I thought of installing ...
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How do I solve "Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing" error?
I'm trying to install phpMyAdmin using sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin but encountering this error
Err http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main mysql-common all 5.5.34-0ubuntu0.12.04....
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How to install Nvidia driver in Ubuntu 18.04?
I downloaded the Nvidia driver for Linux from the official Nvidia website to install in my laptop. It is a file named NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.67.run. How to install this file?
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How can I remove Gnome Desktop Environment without messing Unity DE? (Ubuntu 16.04)
I need to get rid of the GNOME Desktop Environment which has been installed by default when I updated my pc from 15.10 to 16.04.
After a while, I found myself not only with GNOME DE, but also with ...
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ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics install fails, how can I resolve the problem? [duplicate]
I want to activate ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (post-release update), but there is a problem during installation. It says:
Sorry, installation of this driver failed.
Please have ...
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How to install an application that requires gksu package on ubuntu 18.04?
I downloaded the Upwork desktop App on ubuntu 18.04. When I open it with Gdebi package installer I saw this error:
I tried to install gksu manually via sudo apt install gksu but I got this error
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Alps Touchpad on Dell: how do I install the DKMS driver to enable multitouch?
Now I know that this has been asked several times here but I couldn't find any decent solution to it.
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on my DELL N5110 and my touchpad is detected as a mouse, So I don't ...
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Installing Nvidia graphics driver in Ubuntu 20.04
I run the following command
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-450
But it throws out an error with the following
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... ...
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How do I install pepper-flash on Chromium?
I have Chromium web browser on my Lubuntu 13.04 (pre-installed). I use LX Terminal (pre-installed) to write commands. I am trying to download flash player on Chromium using instructions on this site:
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Using GParted to remove windows partition
I'm currently dual-booting to either Ubuntu 10.10 or Windows XP. However, I rarely use windows and would like to remove it.
I've use the Ubuntu live CD to access GParted. I've also deleted the ...
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Permission denied when trying to run pip install ipython
When I used
pip install ipython
or
pip install "ipython[notebook]"
I get the following error:
Downloading/unpacking ipython
Downloading ipython-2.3.1-py27-none-any.whl (2.8MB): 2.8MB downloaded
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How can I check dependency list for a deb package
How can I check dependency list for a deb package. I am running Ubuntu 11.10 and I have backed up all deb packages from var/cache/apt/archives. I want to format my pc and re-install selected ...
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How to install VirtualBox from command line?
I am a newbie. For some reasons, I need to install Virtualbox. I see that I can easily install it using the Software Center, but I trust most the apt-get install way, because I find it safer, less ...
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How to install pip for python 3 in ubuntu 12.04 LTS
I am trying to install the Pillow module for python 3.3, but for that I need to install pip.
Every time that I install pip it installs for python 2.7, any help?
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Determine destination location of apt-get install <package>?
For some applications its fairly easy enough to locate where the application was installed to using the "which" command. However, some applications such as Tomcat are a little out of my league to ...
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How do I resolve a "Cannot open shared object file libudev.so.0" error?
Trying to run Game Dev Tycoon on Ubuntu 64. It asks for the above object.
I ran sudo apt-get install libudev1:i386 and it came back already installed.
I have /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 but no ...
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Google Chrome PPA upgrade invalid signature
When running:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
I got this output:
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com utopic-security InRelease
Ign http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com utopic InRelease ...
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How to install Synaptic Package Manager?
I tried to install Synaptic Package Manager but I get the following error message:
Package dependencies cannot be resolved.
This error could be caused by required additional software packages which ...
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Installing Steam in Ubuntu
I am currently using Ubuntu 14.10. Steam is showing up in the Ubuntu Software Center, but when I click on it it says:
Not found
There isn't a software package called "steam" in your current ...
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How to install WhatsApp?
How can I install WhatsApp in Ubuntu?
Related:
How to use Whatsapp mobile application on Ubuntu Touch?
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How do I uninstall GRUB?
A hard drive that I use only for data storage still has GRUB from past Ubuntu installations.
How can I remove GRUB from it without harming the rest of the drive's data?
Background
I occasionally ...
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Snap in Ubuntu 16.04
Completely confused with this new feature snap. I know this might be detailed question-answer but I need to know some info regarding it.
I have read that new application format, snap which can be ...
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How to remove configuration files completely
Recently I uninstalled some software using sudo apt-get --purge autoremove, thinking that this would remove all traces of it including unused dependencies and configuration files. However I discovered ...
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How to install MATLAB on Ubuntu 14.04?
How to install MATLAB in Ubuntu 14.04? I searched in USC, but it only has some extension for MATLAB.
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How to install VirtualBox to use Windows or other OS?
I want to use Windows 7 or 8 but I don't know to install a software like VirtualBox which we have to do with the use of terminal. I don't want to use Windows as a main OS so I want to use it in ...
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Google Chrome error: Error initializing NSS without a persistent database
It was working properly before, suddenly it stopped working. When I tried to open by clicking on its icon, but nothing happens.
As already here are many questions related to this, but none of them ...
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How to download a software package with all dependencies and sub-dependencies?
Similar questions have been asked already but none of them have solved my problem:
I need to install a package on a standalone Linux box, specifically kdbg. Now I tired the command
sudo apt-get ...
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Unable to uninstall package with error "Unable to locate package"
I installed several Kali tools using the Katoolin script. After a while I tried to uninstall these tools, I was able to remove most of them but several apps won't uninstall using
sudo apt-get remove &...
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How do I completely remove Ubuntu?
I have had the last Ubuntu distro (10.something) installed for a year and love it.
But I have run in to an issue when I tried to upgrade it to the latest one it did not work and there has come some ...
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How do I run a command as root? [duplicate]
I've downloaded a driver for a video card (*.run) and tried to install within a terminal. When I started the installation process I got this error: ERROR: nvidia-installer must be run as root. I'm ...
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How to install specific version of some package? [duplicate]
My questions are divided into two parts:
How to know the version of installed package?
How to install a specific package version?
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How to completely remove virtualbox [duplicate]
I had installed VirtualBox but it started giving me problems.
So I uninstalled it using:-
sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-\*
sudo apt-get purge virtualbox-\*
But when I reinstalled VirtualBox it ...
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How can I strip down Ubuntu?
I'm trying to fix what I consider a bloated install of Ubuntu. When I install Ubuntu on a machine, I get things that I don't want - web browsers, office applications, media players, accessibility ...