Questions tagged [apt]
APT is short for Advanced Packaging Tool, the package manager for Debian-based distributions. It is also the most used tool for installing packages in Ubuntu. Questions about using any of the apt commands should use this tag.
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How do I resolve unmet dependencies after adding a PPA?
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 an impossible situation or if you are using the ...
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Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages
After upgrading from 10.04 to 12.04 I am trying to install different packages.
For instance ia32-libs and skype (4.0).
When trying to install these, I am getting the 'Unable to correct problems, you ...
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What can I do if a repository/PPA does not have a Release file?
When updating, I get the following error message:
W: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/mc3man/trusty-media/ubuntu xenial Release' does not have a Release file.
Here, I find another statement ...
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How can I fix a 404 Error when using a PPA or updating my package lists?
PPA seems to be constantly offline. Whenever I use sudo apt-get update, this error is shown:
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/ 404 Not Found
How do I fix these errors?
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dpkg error: "trying to overwrite file, which is also in..."
For example:
$ sudo apt-get install curl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The ...
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How do I fix the GPG error "NO_PUBKEY"?
I added some extra repositories with the Software Sources program. But when I reload the package database, I get an error like the following:
W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty InRelease:...
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Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/) is another process using it?
I get this error when trying to use apt-get:
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/) is ...
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How do I remove a malformed line from my sources.list?
I have unistalled and reinstalled the Ubuntu Software Center as per info I found in a similar thread and I got the same response about line 91 or something like that.
I just tried to upload a screen ...
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How do I fix a "Problem with MergeList" or "status file could not be parsed" error when trying to do an update?
The computer gave me this output in a window:
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_natty_main_binary-...
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How can PPAs be removed?
I've added many PPAs using the add-apt-repository command. Is there a simple way to remove these PPAs? I've checked in /etc/apt/sources.list for the appropriate deb lines but they aren't there.
This ...
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Trouble downloading packages list due to a "Hash sum mismatch" error
When I check for updates, I get a "Failed To Download Repository Information" error.
This is what comes up under details:
W: Failed to fetch gzip:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/us.archive.ubuntu....
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"Unable to locate package" while trying to install packages with APT
When I try to install any package through the command line, I get an error.
$ sudo apt-get install <package>
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state ...
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How can I fix apt error "W: Target Packages ... is configured multiple times"?
I just installed Ubuntu Gnome 16.04. I told it to save my documents - which worked. Some software had to be reinstalled. Now when I run sudo apt-get update I see this:
W: Target Packages (main/binary-...
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apt-get update fails to fetch files, “Temporary failure resolving …” error
Err http://archive.canonical.com natty InRelease
Err http://security.ubuntu.com oneiric-security InRelease
Err http://extras.ubuntu.com natty InRelease
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Permission denied, are you root?
I get this error whenever I try to install programs using the terminal:
home@ubuntu:~$ apt-get install myunity
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable ...
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How do I fix this "E: Type '*' is not known on line * in source list ..." update error?
Every once in a while I see users having issues to update due to errors like this:
E:Type 'ain' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/some-ppa.list'
with varying types/line ...
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Package dbus is not configured yet
While attempting to upgrade (sudo apt-get upgrade) Ubuntu 12.04, I had a pair of packages that would throw the following apt-get install errors for the dbus dependency:
dpkg: error processing dbus (--...
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My /boot partition hit 100% and now I can't upgrade. Can't remove old kernels to make room
My first issue was when I tried to apt-get update or apt-get upgrade. On upgrade I get the following error:
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have ...
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How to list all installed packages
I'd like to output a list of all installed packages into a text file so that I can review it and bulk-install on another system. How would I do this?
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How can I get apt to use a mirror close to me, or choose a faster mirror?
Downloading from the main Ubuntu archive is slow even when it's not release day, how can I get apt-get to automatically use a mirror that is close to me?
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What does "Package <package> has no installation candidate" mean?
What does the above Error mean? What is an installation candidate?
I was trying to do
sudo apt-get install munin-memcached
and I get this message:
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...
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"debconf: DbDriver "config": config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable" while installing packages
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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"The following packages have been kept back:" Why and how do I solve it?
I just added a PPA repository for the development version of the GIMP, but I get this error:
$ apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
...
The following packages have been kept back:
gimp gimp-...
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Apt/Synaptic needs to reinstall package but can't find the archive for it
Running Synaptic I get the following error message:
E: The package hl1440lpr needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
E: Internal error opening cache (1). Please report.
Upon ...
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How can I accept the Microsoft EULA agreement for ttf-mscorefonts-installer?
After a recent update, ttf-mscorefonts-installer prompted me to accept its license agreement.
┌─────────────────┤ Configuring ttf-mscorefonts-installer ├─────────────────┐
│ ...
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What is the easiest way to resolve apt-get BADSIG GPG errors?
I frequently cross this issue, and always have to google for an answer. Does anyone have a permanent fix for BADSIG errors from apt-get?
W: GPG error:
http://download.virtualbox.org lucid
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Failed to download repository information due to missing CDROM
When updating I got this error message:
W:Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 11.10 _Oneiric Ocelot_ - Release amd64 (20111012)/dists/oneiric/main/binary-i386/Packages Please use apt-cdrom to make this ...
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E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages
I am using Ubuntu 13.04 which I installed few days back. I am trying to install nodejs and npm. I tried to install from command line first and then uninstalled it. Then something broke.
sudo apt-get ...
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How to fix "W: Duplicate sources.list entry"?
I keep getting this warning whenever I try to run sudo apt-get update.
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive....
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Package system is broken. How to fix it?
I just recently bought an arduino and requires gcc-avr/avrdude to compile the software. I installed avr for another microprocessor component a while ago but is obviously an outdated version (gcc ...
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What is "dist-upgrade" and why does it upgrade more than "upgrade"?
I was wondering why upgrade sometimes doesn't want to upgrade certain parts of the system, while dist-upgrade does. Here's an example after running apt-get upgrade:
apt-get upgrade:
rimmer@rimmer-...
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E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
I'm trying to run this command in the terminal:
sudo apt install software-properties-common
This is the error message I get:
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (11: Resource ...
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Can't upgrade/update ubuntu 18.04 as apt/dpkg error is showing up
I have been using ubuntu 18.04 for quite a while now and it was working fine until this morning when I turned my pc on and used terminal for updates.
This is the output of sudo apt upgrade
Reading ...
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What does "sudo apt-get update" do?
I am wondering what sudo apt-get update does?
What does it update?
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Dependency errors prevent all APT commands from running, "Package libappstream-glib8:amd64 is not configured yet"
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and I've been getting an error of Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code when trying to install new apps or update the system. This seems to be happening since i ...
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How can I restore configuration files?
I would like to restore LightDM to its default state, because for some reason
/etc/lightdm/unity-greeter.conf is now an empty file.
Deleting /etc/lightdm/unity-greeter.conf and then running sudo apt-...
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How to fix apt: Signature by key uses weak digest algorithm (SHA1)?
I started setting up by adding repositories and then went to run a sudo apt-get update again before I started installing other software, and I get the Signature key lines and it stops. So it ...
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No more updates for Google Chrome 32-bit
I am using Google Chrome 48.0 32-bit. Today when I launched Google Chrome, I got this message:
This computer will soon stop receiving Google Chrome updates because
this Linux system will no longer ...
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Problem with sudo apt update in Ubuntu 18.04: Post-Invoke-Success if /usr/bin/test -w /var/lib/command-not-found/
The terminal gave me these errors when updating the software with sudo apt update.
Hit:1 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:2 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-...
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What commands (exactly) should replace the deprecated apt-key?
Setting up keys for a local repository on a new ubuntu 20.10 virtual machine, I got a message that apt-key add was deprecated and I should read the apt-key(8) man page. The apt-key(8) man page is a ...
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apt-key deprecation warning when updating system: "Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring"
Recently I've noticed some issues when running apt where the system will warn me of a keyring deprecation:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... ...
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How can I tell if a CVE has been fixed in Ubuntu's repositories?
Today a couple of buffer overflows in NTP were announced 1, 2. It looks like updating my system to fix these issues is in order.
How can I find out if they have been fixed in the Ubuntu repositories,...
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Got NODATA issue: 'NODATA' (does the network require authentication?)
I can use my mobile broadband to access Internet with Firefox but when I want to install any package from terminal or make 'apt-get update' command I got the following error:
got 'NODATA' (does the ...
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What are phased updates, and why does Ubuntu use them?
So I ran into that weird "packages being held back" problem while updating my system using apt. After some research, it appears to be the result of "phased updates".
What are ...
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Problem with sudo apt get update: The repository cdrom... does not have a Release file
Every time I try update (using sudo apt-get update) my Ubuntu I get this problem:
W: The repository 'cdrom://Ubuntu 16.04 LTS _Xenial Xerus_ - Release amd64 (20160420.1) xenial Release' does not have ...
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How do I get and modify the source code of packages installed through apt-get?
I am assuming that all application installed through apt-get are open source; but for those that are available in that manner, where can I get the source code for these applications as well as update ...
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Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'xxx' doesn't support architecture 'i386'
Getting below error message while issuing :
sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease [95.8 kB]
Ign:2 http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/debian wheezy/mongodb-org/3.2 ...
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Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
when I try to apt-get update I'm getting the below error,
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/
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What is the difference between apt and apt-get?
I read about the new fancy progress bar which was added to apt 1.0 in Softpedia and how to enable it here. However on running sudo apt-get update, I did not see the fancy progress bars. On reading the ...
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Restore default apt repositories in sources.list from command line
I am looking for the best method to restore /etc/apt/sources.list to default from the command line.
Is there no way to reference the source code of the package which generates this file or something ...
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