Dependency hell is a colloquial term for the frustration of some software users who have installed software packages which have dependencies on specific versions of other software packages. This was mainly attributable to Windows' DLL Hell. Current package managers in Linux have largely solved this problem by automatically resolving and downloading dependencies.
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