apt uses dpkg (Debian package management system) as a backend. apt handles downloading packages, searching and updating package lists, while dpkg extracts .deb files, runs installation scripts and handles database for installed packages and package contents.
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How to fix “-5 No address associated with hostname error” while updating?
I am getting this error frequently while updating Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. How can I fix it? Log is:
Ign http://archive.scrapy.org precise/main Translation-en
Fetched 6,620 kB in 1min 21s (81.2 kB/s)
W: ...
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Why can I install only one software at a time? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Why the software center doesn't allow multiple downloads?
I have seen that in Ubuntu Software Center or even when
sudo apt-get install
is issued,only one package ...
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update-manager error
I had an error in the Update Manager. The error messages said:
E:Encountered a section with no Package: header
E:Problem with MergeList ...
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How to make 'apt-get update' faster?
I think update is downloading all the package index files every single time. Is there a way to make this faster?
I'd like to only download the file if there's been a change.
I'd like to only ...
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VLC and all main Ubuntu sofwares are unauthenticated
Then how I'll install all these software including VLC and Mplayer in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.?
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Proxy authorisation works in Firefox but not elsewhere
My corporation requires proxy to which you need to authorise. We are running on Win7 system. I have installed VirtualBox with Ubuntu (as 1st machine) and CentOS (2nd machine).
While in Firefox ...
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How to lower wait time for repository updates
When doing a aptitude update / apt-get update or using the Update Manager to update sometimes I get to a repository link that takes too long. The percent does not end and it takes quite a while before ...
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How to resolve “Failed to download repository information”?
Whenever I try to install anything with the Ubuntu Software Center, the following error appears.
Failed to download repository information
Check your Internet connection.
E:Unable to ...
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Node install completely hosed up — how to reset and reinstall it?
So back in the day, node on Ubuntu was at 0.4, and I wanted to use things like LESS, so I installed n to give myself multiple nodes to run - this has led to having two npms and a really unpredictable. ...
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Broken package (Scala, Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit)
I tried to install Scala with the typesafe stack and got into trouble. Now I cannot do much with apt (except update), the broken package seems to be impossible to remove/clean:
Here's the result of ...
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Installing swftools in 11.10
I downloaded the deb, following the answer in this question:
How can I get swftools installed?
When I run:
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27270379/swftools_0.9.0-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg ...
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What is the equivalent terminal command of Update Manager?
I have always been running the following command to update via terminal my machines:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y
But the other day, right after having finished installing ...
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How to install solfege and make it work
I need to install solfege for study, and it needs mma and other complements and I don't know install it. Please help me
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How can I programmaticatly check if a source is in sources.list?
For both 10.04 LTS and 12.04 LTS, is there a way check to see if a source is in /etc/apt/sources.list from a bash script, other than using grep?
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libssl Dependencies
Alright, so I was messing around with libssl and I manged to mess up libssl pretty well. It looks like I installed a separate version of libssl 64 than I've for libssl32 and now I can't use apt-get at ...
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Force install apt-get
I tried installing beanstalkd with sudo apt-get install beanstalkd (also with -f option) and I get the following error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state ...
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How do I resolve unmet dependencies?
How do I resolve unmet package dependencies?
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 ...
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1answer
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Do Not Uninstall Flag on Apt?
Does the Debian/Ubuntu package infrastructure has some way of marking packages so that they never get uninstalled, no matter the pinning of other packages?
My problem is that, sometimes, packages ...
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Marking packages as non-removable / non-installable
My machine resides in a corporate domain and have CFEngine installed, for automated configuration and maintenance purposes. Configuration is pulled automatically into few thousand computers from one ...
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apt-get command not working
I have recently installed libevent from source and memcached from source, after installing libevent i did these steps,
nano /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libevent.conf
##add a line containing:
/usr/local/lib/
...
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Linux vServer for Ubuntu 12.04 though apt-get?
I was wondering if it was possible to retrieve a copy of the Linux kernel with vServer embedded into it already rather than recompiling it by using apt-get. I have followed the documentation on their ...
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Package updates always download too much data
When I update Ubuntu (either with apt-get update or using the GUI-based check for updates), it downloads a large amount of data, 19.xx MB every time, and often takes an unusually long time to to ...
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An error occured, please run Package Manger from the right click menu
I am running ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Last night I was trying to configure the repostory manually by going to ubuntu software center and adding a deb source. I clicked add and pasted this
deb ...
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How to install chemfig through apt-get
I'm doing some LaTeX and I need the chemfig package.
As usual, I type the package name in synaptic but this time nothing matches the search.
Does anyone know how to install it ?
Is it possible ...
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What can I do? Error upgrading libreoffice-core in oneiric-updates
ubuntu @ ubuntu: ~ $ sudo apt-get-f install
Reading package lists ... done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information ... done
Correcting dependencies ... ready
The following packages will be ...
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How to downgrade Xorg-server package to Ubuntu 11.10 version in 12.04
After upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04(LTS) x64 on my HP 6550 laptop, I'm I faced with graphical bug in xorg-server-intel.
I've tried to install lower version but system said me that certain version not ...
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Why does apt think it needs this extra dependency?
I'm working on some machine setup instructions, and I was surprised to find out that apt-get install A B can behave differently than apt-get install A && apt-get install B.
My specific ...
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How to Downgrade a package via apt-get?
How to Downgrade a package to an older version via apt-get?! (or any other tool but apt-get is preferred)
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libaudio2 dependency error when installing Skype on 64-bit Ubuntu system
I am trying to run Skype on 64-bit Ubuntu... I have to run the following command
sudo apt-get install libqtgui4:i386
When I run this, the following error occurs:
E: Internal Error, Could ...
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iptables problem
Hi guys i have the follwoing iptables file for my ubuntu 12.04 server. ITs a bit messy because i tried different ways to fix it but the problem is it doesnt allow apt commands such as apt-get to run. ...
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Unable to install flashybrid
I'm trying to install the flashybrid but when I enter the apt-get install flashybrid command, I get this error:
root@user-desktop:/home/user# apt-get install flashybrid
Reading package lists... Done
...
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Cannot install ia32-libs
I don't know why I can't install ia32-libs. It claims for a dependency that cannot be found on repos.
junior@mediacenter:~$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...
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Apt-get update size too big [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Why are my apt-get update fetches so large?
Since i installed Ubuntu 12.04 Precise x64, the apt-get update size is killing me.. Since i'm stuck with a slow connection, ...
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12.04: Apt-Get Update: failure to fetch; can't connect to any sources
I realize there are dozens of "apt-get update: failure to fetch" questions (I read through all I could find), but my present circumstance is unique to 12.04 and it affects all sources; not just ...
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the size of apt-get update lists is too big
I ran a clean install to Ubuntu 12.04 and so far everything has been working well. I especially commend the Ubuntu team for this release.
I only noticed that the size of repository update is now ...
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Can Synaptic sort packages by time?
I know Software Center can do this (in the "History" section), but I've yet to find a filter/column in Synaptic that will sort the packages by the time they were installed/removed. I could really use ...
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Using sudo aptitude/apt-get update does not work
Trying to update via terminal via aptitude or apt-get is not working. There is no other package management program running in the background or any other user.
I tried both, sudo aptitude update ...
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Cannot install any required packages in 12.04
Following is the output:
sudo apt-get install activity-log-manager
[sudo] password for kk:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might ...
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Assign highest priority to my local repository
Original question was "How to assign highest priority to local repository without using sources.list file"
I have setup a local repository with packages I downloaded. I use it to avoid downloading ...
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corrupt database? ubuntu 12.04
i have ubuntu 12.04 x86 single boot on an Acer Extensa 5635ZG and when installing Xserver xinput (drivers for xinput controller) it gave an error i dont remeber, after that i haven't been able to ...
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How do which sites I have selected affect updates?
Does it matter what site you choose for updates?
Do you get the same updates no matter what site you choose?
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Why do I get an error when trying to install python-software-properties?
When trying
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
I get
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Unable to locate package python-software-properties
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Why I get error when trying to install MyPaint? HELP!
I get this error when trying to install MyPaint from the terminal:
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Installation problems with Gimp 2.8 on Kubuntu 12
I've just upgraded to Kubuntu 12.04 and having problems installing Gimp 2.8, I was wondering if anyone can help me?
I've followed these instructions:
sudo add-apt-repository ...
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add an ssh or sftp repository to apt sources
I have a Mint machine on a private network without access to the outside internet. Another machine has an Ubuntu mirror copied, and that machine is running an ssh server. Is it possible to configure ...
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ambiguous package name 'libglib2.0-0' with more than one installed instance
I have some weird errors while trying to install packages with software center or even when I try to upgrade packages with sudo apt-get install upgrade:
dpkg: error: file triggers record mentions ...
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How can I prevent specific updates from appearing in Update Manager's list of updates in Ubuntu 12.04?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04. When I open Update Manager it comes up with the updates. Some of the updates that are listed are either not relevant to me or I just don't want them.
If I untick them, they ...
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Re-install a set of deb files on another machine without re-downloading
I made a setup for development, and it downloaded a large set of .deb files. Now, I want to re-do this for a presentation, but I do not want to re-download the 400 files live. That would take too ...
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Gnome 2 Doesn't Start When Monitor Not Connected
I installed ubuntu 10.04 using the minimal disk, and then subsequently installed gnome-desktop using apt. Everything is working great, accept I'm trying to get this to be a headless server and I'm ...
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Is there a way to schedule aptd to check for updates only at certain times?
On Ubuntu 12.04 I've noticed that aptd sometimes uses 100% of a CPU and tends to slow down my whole laptop. I wasn't installing any packages so I'm assuming that this is the automatic update check.
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