Questions tagged [software-installation]
Installing software on a running system, either as binaries or from source.
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How do I resolve unmet dependencies after adding a PPA?
Occasionally, when I'm installing stuff, I get an error like the following:
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the ...
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Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers
I'm having serious problems installing the Broadcom drivers for Ubuntu. It worked perfectly on my previous version, but now, it is impossible.
What are the steps to install Broadcom wireless drivers ...
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dpkg error: "trying to overwrite file, which is also in..."
For example:
$ sudo apt-get install curl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The ...
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How do I install a .tar.gz (or .tar.bz2) file?
I have downloaded tar.gz files. But I don't know how to install it. How do I install this kind of file?
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How do I install applications in Ubuntu?
How can I install applications like Google Chrome on Ubuntu?
Are there any commands to install an application?
Index of answers:
Basic usage of APT, Synaptic Package Manager and Ubuntu Software ...
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How do I install a .deb file via the command line?
How do I install a .deb file via the command line?
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What is the correct way to install proprietary ATI Catalyst Video Drivers (fglrx) directly from AMD?
I am planning on doing a fresh install of Ubuntu and want to know what is the correct way to install ATI Catalyst Video Driver?
There are multiple valid answers for this question spanning over ...
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How can I install Sun/Oracle's proprietary Java JDK 6/7/8 or JRE?
I want to install Oracle's JRE and to update to the latest version with the Software Updater when they released. Is there a Ubuntu package that is provided by Canonical or Oracle?
Before release Java ...
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How do I install and manage GNOME Shell extensions?
How do I install GNOME Shell extensions?
Is it possible to update, remove and manage the extensions?
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How do I install Java?
How do I install Java, including in my browser, so websites with Java work?
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How to install Google Chrome
How do you install Google Chrome on Ubuntu?
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How to install and configure Wine?
I am looking for a step by step instruction to guide me in the ways of installing, configuring and debugging many of the issues new users have when dealing with Wine in Ubuntu.
What is the ...
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How do I install Skype?
I want to install Skype, but I can't locate it in Software Center or by using Synaptic Package Manager. Can anyone help me?
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How do I install and use the latest version of GNOME?
I followed the instructions for compiling GNOME Shell and it did compile with a few errors here and there but it didn't run. I installed GNOME Shell using sudo apt-get install gnome-shell but I got ...
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How do I install Adobe Flash player?
I have had significant problems with watching flash video in 64-bit Ubuntu. Does anyone know of a good way to get flash running on the platform?
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What does "Package <package> has no installation candidate" mean?
What does the above Error mean? What is an installation candidate?
I was trying to do
sudo apt-get install munin-memcached
and I get this message:
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...
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How to install Firefox as a traditional deb package (without snap) in Ubuntu 22.04 or later versions?
As far as I see in the ongoing development for 22.04 Jammy, Firefox is a Snap package.
The related Deb package in apt is just a shortcut/link to the that snap version.
I prefer my installation not to ...
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How can I accept the Microsoft EULA agreement for ttf-mscorefonts-installer?
After a recent update, ttf-mscorefonts-installer prompted me to accept its license agreement.
┌─────────────────┤ Configuring ttf-mscorefonts-installer ├─────────────────┐
│ ...
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How can I uninstall a nvidia driver completely ?
As expected, Nvidia drivers have reduced my customizations. I can't login to Unity 3D session. I can't find any content to help me to uninstall the driver and I don't know what to do as I have never ...
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How to download all required Ubuntu drivers
Is there a package of Ubuntu drivers as driver pack solution? I tried to search for it, but I did not find it. If there is, how can I easily get it?
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Package system is broken. How to fix it?
I just recently bought an arduino and requires gcc-avr/avrdude to compile the software. I installed avr for another microprocessor component a while ago but is obviously an outdated version (gcc ...
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If I build a package from source how can I uninstall or remove completely?
I used source code to build one package such as below:
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --libexecdir=/usr/lib --with-package-name="Myplugin" --with-package-origin="...
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What's the easiest way to set up a LAMP stack?
I set up a new VPS instance of Ubuntu and am wondering what the easiest way is to get up and running with a basic LAMP stack (i.e. which packages are required, which configuration options need to be ...
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How to install Eclipse?
I want to install the latest version of Eclipse but the Ubuntu Software Centre contains an older version.
Is there a PPA or some other way to install latest Eclipse?
Please describe the steps for ...
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How do I install the Nvidia driver for a GeForce GT 630 [duplicate]
I recently installed 14.04.
But now I need a new driver for my nVidia GeForce GT 630. The former driver was rejected as not compatible with the 64-bit. I found that other driver and when I wanted to ...
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How do I install the latest stable version of Firefox?
I want to install the latest Firefox on my Ubuntu (64bit) box.
What is the best way to do this? Is there a specific update site or should I download the binaries manually? If doing manually, in which ...
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Can't install wine from winehq.org on Ubuntu (actually Lubuntu) 18.04 LTS
I have followed all the instructions on the winehq page. In particular, I have run the following commands:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
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How do I install the Cinnamon Desktop?
I have read that there is a new Gnome-2 like interface called Cinnamon produced by the Linux Mint developers.
Is this available for Ubuntu users - and if so how do I install it?
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How do I install Ubuntu-Tweak?
I have heard a lot about Ubuntu-Tweak and how it is great for power users, but I don't know how to install it.
How do I do that?
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How do I install software using the Ubuntu Software Center?
The title says it all. I'd like to know how I can install software - an example is the Chromium web browser.
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How do I use the latest GCC on Ubuntu?
I want to compile my program with the latest version of gcc.
Ubuntu 14.04 comes with gcc 4.8.2, however there's 4.9.0 available, moreover, I see that it is available as a package: gcc-4.9. I tried to ...
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How to install the latest versions of NodeJS and NPM?
I noticed over at the https://nodejs.org/ website that node is currently at v 0.12.0.
Can someone let me know how to install the latest version of node together with npm (terminal commands please)?
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Problem with installing Steam on Ubuntu 15.04+
Actually I have installed the new Ubuntu 15.04 64bit, and when I'm trying to install Steam on it, there is a problem.
In fact I have downloaded the deb package from steam website, installed it and ...
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How to install Tor?
I tried to install Tor on my new version of Ubuntu, but it seems that Tor is not available in the repositories.
How else can I install and use Tor?
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How can I uninstall software?
Seeing there are various ways to install on Ubuntu. What are the various ways to uninstall items?
Which ways always work? How can I be sure something was uninstalled?
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How to install Skype 4.3? [duplicate]
Note: The legacy Skype for Linux application (v4.*) is now discontinued and was removed from Canonical’s partner repositories, so this question and its answers are obsolete. Please refer to a newer ...
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How to remove snap from Ubuntu?
How do I remove snap? apt pretends it's not there, but I can still call commands with it.
Trying to remove it says read only file system
# apt remove snap
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...
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How to completely uninstall Java?
How can I completely remove all traces of Java on my system?
I already know how to install it in case I need it again.
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How do I install the latest version of node.js?
How do I install the latest node.js on Ubuntu? I've been looking around, and I can't find anything. Is there a Ubuntu package for node.js, or do I have to compile it myself?
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How can you remove Unity?
In previous versions of Netbook Remix I was able to disable the netbook-launcher and just have a blank desktop. I liked the speed of the Netbook version but not the interface, this worked well for me....
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How do I install the Tor Browser Bundle in Ubuntu?
In Ubuntu 13.04 I used to use the ppa:upubuntu-com/tor64 PPA to install the 64-bit Tor Browser Bundle. However, in Ubuntu 13.10 it doesn't work anymore.
How do I install the Tor Browser Bundle in ...
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How do I install a different Python version using apt-get?
How can I install a different version of Python using apt-get?
Obviously I realise I can install using the source tar ball, however I would prefer not to install from source and instead use the ...
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Can I install Microsoft Office? If so, how?
I want to know how to install Microsoft Office (specifically, Microsoft Office 2010) in Ubuntu?
I am a die hard fan of MS Office and I want to know if there is a way I can use it in Ubuntu.
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How do I install wine?
Can someone please explain how I can install wine in the following ways?
By using the package manager?
By downloading and installing a pre-built package?
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How can you completely remove a package?
I am trying to do a clean install of the octave3.2 package.
To do this, I removed it, then tried to reinstall it.
When I reinstalled, an error occurred. It could be a bug in the package, but I ...
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How do I install Sublime Text 2/3?
I installed Sublime Text 2 on 12.04 as per this tutorial.
However I don't have adequate permissions when launching the program from the Unity launcher. For example I cannot install packages, or if I ...
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How to install Chrome browser properly via command line?
I am trying to install chrome browser via command line. I tried this:
$ apt-cache search chrome browser
The results show that the proper term is "chrome-browser," so I tried that:
$ sudo apt-get ...
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How can I install a package without root access?
I have no root access on this machine.
I would like to know if there is a way I can download Ubuntu packages and install them as non-root?
Probably in my ~/bin or ~/usr/share or something like that? ...
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How do I get Mediatek MT7630E 802.11bgn Wi-Fi Adapter working?
It worked with the pre-installed Ubuntu, but after re-installing Ubuntu dual-boot with Windows 8.1, the WiFi is not working.
Is there a driver for this adapter that will work on Ubuntu 12.04?
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How do I install Python 3.6 using apt-get?
I've tried the normal way, sudo apt-get install python3.6, but... well... that didn't work.
So, how would I go about it? (I'd preferably not build it on my own)
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04.