Top "Package" questions

Package broadly refers to two things: 1) a usable unit/component of built/compiled software, or 2) a partition of the global namespace (Java).

Load package dynamically

Is it possible to load a specific package during runtime? I want to have a kind of plugins where each …

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How to organize large R programs?

When I undertake an R project of any complexity, my scripts quickly get long and confusing. What are some practices …

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How to reference python package when filename contains a period

I am using django and I have a file named models.admin.py and I want to do the following …

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dpkg-shlibdeps: error: no dependency information found for

I'm compiling a deb package and when I run dpkg-buildpackage I get: dpkg-shlibdeps: error: no dependency information found for /usr/…

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makeinfo package missing in ubuntu 12.04

Please can anybody give me a answer for this, I have already tried sudo apt-get install makeinfo textinfo texi2html …

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How do I list the files inside a python wheel?

I'm poking around the various options to setup.py for including non-python files, and they're somewhat less than intuitive. I'd …

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How do I install a package that has been archived from CRAN?

I typed the following in the R command line: install.packages("RecordLinkage") I got the following error: Warning in install.…

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CentOS equivalent of dpkg -s

I'm adapting a prepare script for CentOS that was previously written for Ubuntu. In the Ubuntu script, the command dpkg …

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pip won't install Python packages locally with --user

I'm trying to install packages locally with pip. It used to work with --user but now when I try it, …

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Package is missing dependencies for libraries - OpenWRT

I am trying to compile OpenWRT with a custom package I have made inside it. Here is the OpenWRT Makefile …

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