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Ubuntu 12.04 - Proxy can't be found - have tried everything I can think of
I am in a work environment using a mandatory proxy, I attempting to change to an IP that currently has a proxy bypass to download useful packages.
I adding in manual IPv4 settings, turned the proxy ...
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Can i add a 13.04 repo to 12.04 LTS to install new package via synaptic?
I want to install julia (programming language from MIT) on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, but I encountered some problems with the compilation from source. I noticed that there is a specific package to install it ...
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Why after fresh Ubuntu 12.04 installation update aren't being installed?
I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a computer. Everything is fine without update. Just after the installation, it was showing about 200 MB updates to download. Since then I'm trying to install all the ...
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Is there any YUM to APT-GET tool?
I have a big source code where it wants to install everything where shown of YUM (Fedora, CentOS, Red hat package manager).
Example:
$ yum install bzip2 cpio curl curl-devel fileutils gettext-devel ...
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12.04 unattended-upgrades package has lock on /var/lib/dpkg/lock (cannot sudo apt-get update due to lock) [duplicate]
Calling the sudo apt-get update fails to complete. Fails with:
Fetched 2,212 kB in 13s (162 kB/s)
E: ...
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system dont get updates
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and I don't get any updates.
For more than two weeks, whenever I try to check for updates manually it doesn't show any updates in the update manager. Then I tried via terminal ...
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Why the installation fails for this package? it says linux-headers not found but it is there
This package is failing to get installed, but the linux-headers are installed.
root@sun-Alienware-X51:/var/tmp# uname -a
Linux sun-Alienware-X51 3.5.0-28-generic #48~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 24 ...
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Ubuntu 12.0.4 package update failure libssl1.0.0 out of memory error [duplicate]
I am running Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS and yesterday automatic updates failed on what appeared to be the update of openssl package. I have searched around and found several old q&a's to this package ...
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Ubuntu problem (while installing webapps) 12.04 [closed]
Everytime I log into Ubuntu 12.04 i get the system error box
containing the following text :
**Could not initialize the package information**
An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the ...
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Ubuntu 12.04.2 upgrade issue
Before the upgrade (Ubuntu web server) was run, I had run apt-get auto-remove. Upgrade went forward and failed. Currently not able to connect to it. sudo networkmanager says:
command not found
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12.04 64-bit how to solve, pcscd : Depends: libccid (>= 1.4.1~) but it is not going to be installed or pcsc-ifd-handler?
I need to install a package but its failing in 12.04 64 -bit.
root@sun-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M:/var/tmp# apt-get install pcscd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading ...
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How can I install Vagrant on 12.04 if ruby-json is already installed?
I tried to install the software , which are in software center and new software like virtual box, but it is showing the error:
Items cannot be installed or removed until the package catalog is
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asking on using apt to install packages
i'm new to using ubuntu or any linux distro.
On reading and watching tutorials on the internet, I've seen others just use
sudo apt-get install package-name
while others do these commands before ...
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Unable to locate package when running apt-get
I installed rvm and it tells me I'm missing some packages:
viggy@viggy:~$ rvm requirements
Installing requirements for ubuntu, might require sudo password.
Skipping `apt-get update` make sure your ...
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Command “apt-get-repository” doesn't work on Ubuntu 12.04 [closed]
I'm trying to install Libreoffice 4.0 on Ubuntu 12.04. I try to begin with add the repository.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-4-0
I get this output:
sudo: apt-get-repository: ...
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Error using apt-get upgrade
I cannot update files.
sudo apt-get check
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
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Can't install Ocaml, libxcb1 1.8.1-1ubuntu0.1 newer than version in archive
I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 32bit (Literally, downloaded the ISO, created a virtual machine, installed it, ran updates. Other than that completely pristine).
sudo apt-get install ocaml
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Ubuntu 12.04 I can't download anything… at all
I recently upgraded from Maveric(10.10) to 12.04 (by wiping out Maveric from my system completely) I was using a pen drive, so it messed up my grub. I finally managed to reinstall the grub on the ...
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I broke linux kernel. Cant boot
I ran out of space last day and couldn't update so I decided to remove old kernels. I don't know why, it told me I had problems ??? I decided to reboot and I couldn't, it entered into a ram test loop. ...
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apt mirror error: qzip stdin not in gzip format
we are getting below error when we run apt-mirror.
qzip stdin not in gzip format
qzip stdin not in gzip format
qzip stdin not in gzip format
qzip stdin not in gzip format
PPPPPPPPPPP
133gb will ...
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Can't access GUI mode with Virtual Box fresh 12.04 install
Trying to install 12.04 in virtual box. Install went great after restart I get a white error box talking about my graphics. Basically I get options to look at different log files or I can run without ...
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How to upgrade to libglib2.0 v2.3.6 on Ubuntu 12.04?
The latest upgrades to Cairo-Dock have broken it so I tried to do a fresh install. But when doing sudo apt-get install cairo-dock I get the following error:
cairo-dock-plug-ins : Depends: ...
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Why is packagekit starting up throughout the day
Why is packagekit starting up throughout the day? There is no
indication in the messages which component is sending the message to
start packagekit, just a dbus message indicating that the service
was ...
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Syntax Error while updating
How to fix E: Syntax error /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove-kernels:1: Extra junk at end of file?
I also have a red x in the top menu bar and I can not get any updates or open the software center. ...
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Update of nagios3 in repository
When I installed nagios3 through apt-get on my ubuntu precise64 I found out there is out-of-date version 3.2.3.
The newest version is 3.5 right now.
I also checked that for newer versions of ubuntu ...
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12.04-server update failure after full /boot, apt not working, unmet dependencies to non exiting linux-image kernel
Unattended upgrade failed after full /boot partition. Creating disk-space by deleting old kernels with the recommended command
sudo apt-get purge linux-image-x.x.x-x-generic
does not work and gives ...
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Updating got stuck
cybercam@cybercam:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for cybercam:
Err http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg
Got a single header line over 360 chars
Ign http://dl.google.com stable ...
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wine install problem
$ sudo apt-get install wine
[sudo] password for hergul:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may ...
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How to remove orphaned files and residues
I'm using 12.04 LTS. After uninstalling unwanted packages using purge and autoremove commands I still have orphaned files in system / home directory (configuration and cache files mostly).
Just to ...
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Update postgresql with latest security update
PostgreSQL announced on the 4th of April a security update to its PostgreSQL server.
I really want to install that update. But if I run sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade the update does ...
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How can I install a later version of solr-jetty via apt-get?
Using apt-get to install solr-jetty only gives me version 1.4 of Solr, but I would like to use one of the 3.x versions.
I'm not yet confident enough to do a manual installation (something usually ...
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Install gnome desktop in kubuntu
I am trying to install gnome desktop from kubuntu. So I did this : sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop It ran well but now I am getting this error:
sudeep@sudeep:~$ sudo apt-get install ...
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Why did I have to edit /etc/lsb-release to get apt-get to work?
I can't open the software sources window from the software center. I can't use apt-get add-apt-repository (and other things).
The error I get with add-apt-repository is:
Traceback (most recent ...
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How to fix my apt-get sources?
After I poked some in sources.list adding cassandra and so I get an apt-get error:
Hämtade 2 484 kB på 7s (345 kB/s)
W: failed to fetch ...
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How do I prevent apt-get upgrade from installing unwanted packages
Package "gwibber" is not installed on my server, and yet when I run apt-get upgrade I see the following:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 boots into black blank screen
I installed Ubuntu server 12.04 about 2 weeks ago. It had been working well and running 24/7 until I accidentally restarted it yesterday. Shouldn't have been a problem, yet now it just sits at a black ...
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Error in package list does not allow software installation
just installed ubuntu 12.04. It's my first time and I cant seem to be able to install software available for download. When I use sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install on terminal, I get the ...
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Installing the 3.5 kernel backport for 12.04
I would like to install the 3.5 kernel backport to 12.04 as per the answer to this question.. The solution is to install the package linux-generic-lts-quantal. However, in the release docs and the ...
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Is it possible to remove all the packages installed from a specific repository?
I would like to remove every package that came from the Multiverse repository. What is the best way to do this?
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How to install Haskell on Ubuntu 12.04?
I'm attempting to install Haskell but I am running into the following error:
ash~$ sudo apt-get install haskell-platform
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading ...
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Various segfaults in syslog; firefox, apt-get and other apps broken
I am working on an Ubuntu 12.04 installation that has recently started misbehaving. It is used by multiple people at an office, so it's possible someone messed things up (although the only user who is ...
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apt-get “Broken packages”
While installing python-dev:
sudo apt-get install python-dev
I am getting the following error:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
python2.7-dev : Depends: python2.7 (= 2.7.3-0ubuntu3) ...
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How to install Python module Urlib2 on Precise?
This is odd. I thought urlib was part of bundled Python but apparently I was wrong.
>>> import urlib
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
...
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I can not updated my ubuntu 12.04 Failed to fetch 403 “Two Host Req Hdr”
I have a problem these days, I can not update system. Every time I try sudo apt-get update the answer is:
Failed to fetch
403 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/source/Sources
Two ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Depends: postgresql-9.1-postgis
I am installing LocalWiki on a Virtual Machine hosted by 1&1.com It is Ubuntu 12.04.
When I run sudo apt-get install localwiki as instructed by http://localwiki.org/install/,
I get the following ...
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12.04 upgrade libav from 53 to 54
I am using the latest release of blender 2.66 on 12.04 from the command line. It is looking for libavformat.so.54 but I only seem to have libavformat.so.53 installed, and cant find a way to upgrade ...
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Ubuntu server 12.04 LTS USB install
I'm trying to install Ubuntu Server 12.04 from USB and I've been struggling with it for 3 days. I don't remember I had this hard time even when building my Hackintoshes.
So, now I'm at the point ...
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Ubuntu 12.04: Why does apt-get update fail? [duplicate]
I cannot install any packages for Ubuntu 12.04. Even after clearing files under:
/var/lib/dpkg/lists/partial/* /var/lib/dpkg/lists/*
/var/cache/apt/*
Changed the repository and tried apt-get clean ...
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running /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_apt as nagios user does not return the correct result
I have two servers, both running 12.04 server, and nagios-nrpe-server.
On both, I have configured the command check_apt, which runs /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_apt.
On both, nagios-nrpe-server is ...
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Can't install new packages because of libssl broken dependencies
I can't install any new package either using apt-get or via the package manager. Below is some output showing the error. Please help!
pauldb@pauldb-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install
Reading package ...
