Questions tagged [package-managers]
Software that allows administrators (and in some cases also users) to control the installation and upgrade process of packages on their systems.
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What is the difference between pip and conda?
I know pip is a package manager for python packages. However, I saw the installation on IPython's website use conda to install IPython.
Can I use pip to install IPython? Why should I use conda as ...
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How to list npm user-installed packages
How do I list the user-installed / environment package only in npm?
When I do npm -g list, it outputs every package and their dependencies. Instead I'd like to see the packages installed in the ...
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How do I update/upgrade pip itself from inside my virtual environment?
I'm able to update pip-managed packages, but how do I update pip itself? According to pip --version, I currently have pip 1.1 installed in my virtualenv and I want to update to the latest version.
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How can I remove a package from Laravel using PHP Composer?
What is the correct way to remove a package from Laravel using PHP Composer?
So far I've tried:
Remove declaration from file composer.json (in the "require" section)
Remove any class ...
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How can I update npm on Windows?
I tried this:
sudo npm cache clean -f
sudo npm install -g n
sudo n stable
...but it didn't work.
How do I do this on Windows?
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How to list the contents of a package using YUM?
I know how to use rpm to list the contents of a package (rpm -qpil package.rpm). However, this requires knowing the location of the .rpm file on the filesystem. A more elegant solution would be to use ...
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What's the difference between dist-packages and site-packages?
I'm a bit miffed by the python package installation process. Specifically, what's the difference between packages installed in the dist-packages directory and the site-packages directory?
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Why use peer dependencies in npm for plugins?
Why does, for example, a Grunt plugin define its dependency on grunt as "peer dependencies"?
Why can't the plugin just have Grunt as its own dependency in grunt-plug/node_modules?
Peer dependencies ...
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Is there a command to update Cargo to the latest official release?
I seem to have diverging versions of rustc and cargo (I think),
$ rustc -V
rustc 1.9.0 (e4e8b6668 2016-05-18)
$ cargo -V
cargo 0.10.0-nightly (10ddd7d 2016-04-08)
Is there a command akin to
pip ...
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Why is the apt-get function not working in the terminal on Mac OS X v10.9 (Mavericks)?
I was watching this, and, as you can see, the first command I am told to put in is:
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
When I do this, it outputs:
sudo: apt-get: command not found
I have no ...
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Conda: Installing / upgrading directly from github
Can I install/upgrade packages from GitHub using conda?
For example, with pip I can do:
pip install git+git://github.com/scrappy/scrappy@master
to install scrappy directly from the master branch in ...
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composer: How to find the exact version of a package?
Suppose I'm writing a library A, that depends on another library, monolog for instance.
I want to install the latest version of monolog, so I just put this inside composer.json:
{
"require": {
...
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How do I import a specific version of a package using go get?
coming from a Node environment I used to install a specific version of a vendor lib into the project folder (node_modules) by telling npm to install that version of that lib from the package.json or ...
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Where does SDKMAN install packages?
I used SDKMAN! to install Groovy which went fine.
Where is the installed package now? I need the path for it. I am on Ubuntu 14.04.
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What does this mean: Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_CONTAINER_ERROR]?
I try to deploy my app and sometimes get this error:
Failure
[INSTALL_FAILED_CONTAINER_ERROR]
I tried to google it but don't find what the error means or what it's
caused by. I deploy via IDE (...
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Do you put Babel and Webpack in devDependencies or Dependencies?
I'm new to npm and don't really understand what should go into dependencies vs. devDependencies. I know that for testing libraries they should go into dev, but how about for things like babel and ...
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composer.lock: how does it work?
I'm trying to understand this part: http://getcomposer.org/doc/02-libraries.md#lock-file
this lock file will not have any effect on other projects that depend on it. It only has an effect on the ...
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Alpine Add Package from Edge repository
If I'm using Alpine 3.8, how can I add a specific package from the Alpine Edge repository? Is this even supported? There is no equivalent of backports, from what I can see.
I want to add the new ...
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How does the "replace" property work with composer?
So how does the "replace" property work with composer? I have read the composer document but still not understand it. Searching for more info hasn't answered my questions.
When I look at the composer....
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Package(Plugin) Management for Vim
Emacs 24 looks like it will have a package manager. What package management options are there for Vim?
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What does conda do when "solving environment"
Whenever I run conda install/remove/update <package>, it tells me it's "Solving environment" for some time before telling me the list of things it's going to download/install/update. Presumably ...
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Is there a package manager for Java like easy_install for Python? [closed]
Is there a package manager for Java like easy_install for Python ?
I'm looking for a solution usable from the command line and not from an IDE.
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What is the difference between yarn run and npm start?
Is yarn run intended to be the equivalent of npm start?
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Package Manager: Bower vs jspm
How is Bower different than jspm? Can Bower provide jspm functionality about SystemJS universal module loader?
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How to install packages in Linux (CentOS) without root user with automatic dependency handling?
Is it possible to use RPM or YUM or any other package manager in Linux, specifically CentOS, to install a package either already downloaded or from repo to a custom location without admin/root access?
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What do you expect from a package manager for Emacs? [closed]
Although several thousand Emacs Lisp libraries exist, GNU Emacs, until version 24.1 did not have an (internal) package manager.
I guess that most users would agree that it is currently rather ...
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What is the difference between brew, yarn, and npm?
I was using the react-native package which I installed globally with npm. Now it says at the first line after executing the init command. The following:
Installing react-native from npm...
Consider ...
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How to uninstall all unused packages in a conda virtual environment?
I have a conda virtual environment with several unused packages installed inside it (either using pip install or conda install).
What is the easiest way to clean it up so that only packages that are ...
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What does " -r " do in pip install -r requirements.txt
I looked up how to install multiple packages from a requirements document using pip. The answers were mostly:
pip install -r requirements.txt
What does the -r do though? I can't find an answer for ...
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Feature comparison between npm, pip, pipenv and Poetry package managers [closed]
How do the main features of npm compare with pip, pipenv and Poetry package managers? And how do I use those features of pipenv or Poetry?
This could primarily help someone transitioning from being ...
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Are there any efforts to create a package manager for C++? [closed]
One of my biggest frustrations with my favorite language is the effort it takes to get different libraries working for together under one unified development environment. My biggest wish is to just ...
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Error while trying to update brew package manager
I tried to update brew:
sudo brew update
But I got this error:
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
Listing a lot of files
Error: Failed while executing ...
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How to install packages from Docker compose?
Hi there I am new to Docker. I have an docker-compose.yml which looks like this:
version: "3"
services:
lmm-website:
image: lmm/lamp:php${PHP_VERSION:-71}
container_name: ${CONTAINER_NAME:-...
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Add custom package source to Visual Studio Code
Does anybody know how to add custom package source to Visual Studio Code?
E.g. I'd like to add https://www.myget.org/F/aspnet-contrib/api/v3/index.json as a package source and drive these packages ...
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How do I search for packages using yarn?
How do I search for packages with yarn?
I want to get a list of results that have the search term in the name of the package as well as in descriptions (similar to how various utilities work like npm ...
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How can I use npm for front-end dependencies?
I want to ask if it is possible (and generally a good idea) to use npm to handle front-end dependencies (Backbone, jQuery).
I have found that Backbone, jQuery and so on are all available through npm ...
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How to list all the commands available in package.json?
A package.json can have lot of commands and common ones are npm start, npm test but there are generally more commands.
Is there a way to list all the commands?
Currently I use less package.json but ...
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Installing Ruby 1.9.1 on Ubuntu?
I wonder about installing the latest version of Ruby on Ubuntu 9.04. Now I can run through the ./configure and make stuff fine, but what I wonder about: how to avoid conflicts with the packaging ...
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Homebrew install permissions issue
I have a standard homebrew install inside of usr/local/
When I try:
Larson-2:~ larson$ brew install postgresql
Error: Cannot write to /usr/local/Cellar
And when I use sudo:
Larson-2:~ larson$ sudo ...
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Can yum tell me which of my repositories provide a particular package?
Hopefully short version of the question: If I'm on a machine that has a particular package installed, is there a yum command that will tell me which of it's configured repositories provided that ...
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What's the difference between Chocolatey, OneGet, PsGet, NuGet, ...?
I know there are many package sources for PowerShell extensions. I'm seeking for a comprehensive answer, how:
Chocolatey
NuGet
PsGet
PowerShellGallery
OneGet
MyGet
ProGet
...
all these fit together ...
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How to obtain older versions of packages using MSYS2?
I decided to try CLion for Windows, which recommends either MinGW or Cygwin for compilation.
I installed the MSYS2 package manager into the default folder, C:\msys64, updated it by running update-...
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Invalid object name 'dbo.__MigrationHistory' using Database.Create; EF6.02 when connection string is passed in
I experience an error when trying to create a database using the following code.
Note the problem does not happen if the connection string is not passed in.
Also the problem happens when I run the ...
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Package Manager vs Dependency Manager
What is the difference between a package manager and a dependency manager?
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Snap-confine has elevated permissions and is not confined but should be. Refusing to continue to avoid permission escalation attacks
I have been using snap for some time but after a recent upgrade, I get this error when I try opening any application
Snap-confine has elevated permissions and is not confined but should be.
Refusing ...
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Is there any way to retrieve a dependency tree from yum?
To reduce the chance of the XY problem, I'm trying to install PostGIS on a clean, virtual RHEL5 installation with heavy restrictions. I do not know if we (as a company) have a RH subscription.
# yum ...
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Can I run a private npm repository without replicating the public repository?
I'm writing a number of pieces of code (for internal use) using node.js and want to store the modules (packaged up for npm) in a package repository for each distribution to the various machines they ...
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Lua's package management system?
What's the Lua's standard package management system and repository? Like brew for Mac OS X, npm for node.js.
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Can't import packages using Swift 4 Package Manager
Trying to test Swift 4 using Xcode-beta (v9) on my machine and having issues with importing packages into a test project:
Initiated project using swift package init --type executable
Changed Package....
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Why doesn't Gradle or Maven have a dependency version lock file?
I've recently been introduced to the concept of a dependency version lock file when reading about package managers like NPM, Yarn, Paket, Cargo, etc. My understanding is that it is a file that lists ...
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