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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Unable to uninstall Chromium from Ubuntu

I am unable to uninstall Chromium browser from Ubuntu 18.04.3. I tried to uninstall it through Ubuntu software and also through commands but didn't work in my case Command I used: sudo apt-get ...
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Ubuntu 18 not getting security updates?

Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS Release: 18.04 Codename: bionic /etc/apt/sources.list # deb cdrom:[Ubuntu-Server 16.04.1 LTS _bionic Xerus_ - Release amd64 (20160719)]/...
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difference between apt update and apt-get update [duplicate]

I am new to Ubuntu and I found that there sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade #1 sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade #2 what is the difference between them, I ...
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Not sure why my command doesn't work [duplicate]

Edit: This post was marked as duplicate, I disagree that it is. My problem I suspect is not that a PPT is missing, the problem as I first stated is that a new PPT is missing each time I run the ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and how to handle point releases

Trying to get some clarity on the meaning of LTS and the point release of 18.04. Looking on Canonical site they state 5 years support for 18.04, 18.04.1 and 18.04.5 but only six months for 18.04.2/3/4....
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How do I charge my Apple device at its normal rate? [duplicate]

I use an iPad 9.7" and it doesn't charge when connected to USB of my recently purchased Ubuntu 19.10 PC, an Asus Vivobook X509UA. I've gone through some questions here and they are mostly quite old. ...
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Sources disagree on hashes for supposely identical version '1:22.1.6-1' of 'erlang-examples:amd64'

I am using Lubuntu on my laptop. I try to upgrade using sudo apt upgrade and then the following error is showing up: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state ...
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Unable to locate and install package after running 'sudo apt-get clean' and restoring sources.list [duplicate]

Current terminal output : sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate ...
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Ubuntu wont update

sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade I type my password in here Hit:1 http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease Hit:2 http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates ...
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Error while using apt-mirror for creating local repo

I would like to create a local repo for Ubuntu 18.04 and 16.04. I am interested in downloading only 64-bit packages. I am using "apt-mirror" to download the packages to the hard disk. I use the ...
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Cannot upgrade 19.04 to 19.10 because of held back packages: libsnmp30

When running update-manager to upgrade 19.04 to 19.10 I get this in the console: Checking for a new Ubuntu release Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading. Trying do-...
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Error installing ubuntu-desktop depdendencies

I'm trying to install ubuntu-desktop on my ubuntu server, but every time I try to install I get depdendecy errors. Every time I try to install the package it says it needs it just goes deeper and ...
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Ubuntu oracle jdk issues when trying to install disutils for Cython

I am trying to install disutils to use Cython which requires python3-pip according to this: https://superuser.com/questions/1319047/cant-install-virtual-interpreter-in-pycharm-in-linux So when I try ...
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Latest Chromium >= 78.0.3904.87 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Snap or Apt or something else?

There are are a couple of critical vulnerabilities CVE-2019-13720 and CVE-2019-13721 for Chrome/chromium which require an update to version 78.0.3904.87 or greater. I'm running Chromium on Ubuntu 16....
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sudo apt-get install "anything" gives this error

I uninstalled LibreOffice since then when I try to install something it gives me that error below : Even if I follow the instructions and run apt --fix-broken install it gives antoher error :
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apt-get stuck on "Waiting for headers"

On Ubuntu 19.04 I had current rtl8812au (AC1200) and rtl8814au (AC1750) dkms drivers for my USB wireless dongles installed and running fine. They both broke after I upgraded to Ubuntu 19.10. I've ...
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E:Malformed entry 57 in list file [duplicate]

I was trying to install and run "Origin" games. But something went wrong. The error message was:'error: opening the cache (E:Malformed entry 57 in list file/ect/apt/sources/list /etc/apt/sources....
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Software Center cannot be reinstalled

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.2. I cannot find Ubuntu Software (or Software center) in my dash. I have tried to install it with the following commands: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade then sudo ...
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Attempt to re-install ubuntu-software fails: "no installation candidate" [duplicate]

For some reason my ubuntu-software-center disappeared (on Ubuntu 18.04). I tried the usual sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install software-center But I end up with this error: Package ...
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Dependency problems for libreoffice-common on Ubuntu 19.10 [closed]

Whenever I try to upgrade my system (apt update && apt upgrade -y) I get this: Check if you are using third party repositories. If so disable them, since they are a common source of ...
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Kubuntu system updates, terminal vs software center [closed]

I had some issues a while back with Kubuntu 18.04.2 LTS after I installed it. I mixed and matched updating my system from the terminal and the software center and it caused multiple issues with my ...
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Ubuntu 16.10 VM freezing after package updates

I have an Ubuntu 16.10 virtual machine (VMWare). I ran an upgrade as usual using sudo apt-get upgrade and it downloaded packages fully and installed successfully. Then after a reboot the virtual ...
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sudo apt-get update not working after install PPAs [duplicate]

after install some PPAs when ever I do sudo apt-get update the output is Hit:1 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease Hit:2 http://repo.steampowered.com/steam precise InRelease ...
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Installation MScore fonts: first not found and not extracted, perhaps not fixed [duplicate]

1 Starting points and intents I wish to have the Windows/MSDOS fonts installed in my Ubuntu 18.04, installing the package ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.6ubuntu2). 2 Ubuntu 18.04 2.1 The Synaptic way ...
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After apt update no packages are available for 19.10 on arm64

What my problem is I can't install updates or any new package from ubuntu repositories. The package list seems to only contain already installed packages, e.g. $ apt-cache policy bash bash: ...
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Dynamic MMap ran out of room when trying to sudo apt-get anything

I was having an error in Update Manager that asks me to do a partial upgrade and it fails. Now I can't sudo apt-get install anything. I tried to fix it, and now I can't sudo apt-get anything. Every ...
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How to remove dependencies that I installed manually

I was trying to install wkhtmlpdf and after I googled for instructions I found out that I needed to install some dependencies like apt-get install openssl build-essential xorg libssl-dev then I ...
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Turning off SSL certificate check when adding PPAs

I'm on an enterprise network where my traffic is man-in-the-middled. With pip I'm able to do --no-check-certificate. How can I do this for adding PPAs?
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What is the meaning of role='role-commit-packages' sender=':1.72' in history.log

When checking two twin installs, same sources, same server, same location, sometimes updates are not the same or don't happen at the same time. My understanding of this is that its linked to phased ...
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Can't Update or Upgrade 'dpkg returned with error code (2)'

I realize that this may be a duplicate question but it seems like dpkg is returning error (2) for multiple different reasons. When trying to update and upgrade packages I am returned with: dpkg: ...
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Unable to install librocksdb5.8 on 19.10

When I try to install librocksdb5.8, I get this error: root@:~# sudo apt-get install -y librocksdb5.8 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: ...
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Unable to install paper icons theme [E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)] 18.04.3 XFCE

I tried installing the paper icon theme to get a better looking xfce DE after an r/unixporn post I liked however following the insructions at this link returns this and I really don't know how dpkg ...
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libreoffice installs stuck on upgrade to 19.10

I'm attempting to upgrade to ubuntu 19.10 but seem to have messed up my dependencies somewhere along the way. I type sudo do-release-upgrade output: Checking for a new Ubuntu release Please ...
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How to uninstall virtualbox package: "is not installed, so not removed" [duplicate]

I'm trying to remove virtualbox from pc but I can't remove package. dpkg can sees it: dpkg -l 'virtualbox*' | grep ^i in virtualbox-5.0 <none> amd64 (no description ...
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E: Unable to locate package php5-sybase [duplicate]

I am trying to install freetds-common, freetds-bin, unixodbc, and php5-sybase on Ubuntu 16.04. When I run sudo apt-get install freetds-common freetds-bin unixodbc php5-sybase, I get the following ...
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Making PHP7.2 work under Ubuntu 19.10

I installed Ubuntu 19.10 and use it for Web Development, mainly with PHP frameworks. We have a few projects that run php7.2 and php7.3. I got 7.3 installed however 7.2 doesn't exist? I've added the ...
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Help to install Macaulay2

I am unable to install Macaulay2. I am following the guideline given in the website M2. I have added the repository in the sources list (see the attached screenshot). I have installed the key from the ...
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python3-rencode & python3-setproctitle it is not installable [duplicate]

I'm trying to upgrade deluge-common but keep getting this error, i try to google but cannot find the answer. The following packages have unmet dependencies: deluge-common : Depends: python3-rencode ...
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I want to remove .deb package in ubuntu

I installed youtube-dl_2015.06.04.1-1~webupd8~trusty0_all.deb in my system. It is not properly installed and I want to remove this package from my system. I am using the command below to remove this ...
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How to uninstall/install youtube-dl by using terminal

I installed YouTube-dl through Ubuntu Software Center, but now mine isn't working. So I can not able to Update and Install youtube-dl. I tried this: $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/...
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how to save packages installed in one virtual machine and install them in another virtual machine in ubuntu

I have been using (rather say trying to use Ubuntu 19.04) in a virtual machine. There have been n number of problems. Like Unable to get IP on my Ubuntu 19.04 virtual machine and changing username for ...
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Installing virtualbox-6.0 on Ubuntu 19.10

Ubuntu version (base) vipulpopat@vipulpopat-XPS-13-9370:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 19.10 Release: 19.10 Codename: eoan (base) ...
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apt-file no longer finds or lists most of the content since Ubuntu 19.10 eoan

Update 2: This seems to be a upstream packaging issue with empty Contents-amd64.gz files in the repository. Therefore I reported a bug in Launchpad. I'm a heavy user of apt-file. Most of the file I ...
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command to accept VirtualBox PUEL (for virtualbox-ext-pack installation)?

i'm creating a script for downloading and installing some programs and adjust their settings without the need for an interaction during the whole process. so far so good, but now i'm stuck at the ...
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unable to locate packages fg in ubuntu 18.04.3 [duplicate]

sudo apt install fg Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package fg
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Why does wget fail with "wget: symbol lookup error: wget: undefined symbol: psl_str_to_utf8lower"?

On a brand new installation of Ubuntu Linux 18.04, wget <URL> fails with, wget: symbol lookup error: wget: undefined symbol: psl_str_to_utf8lower I have tested that the resource exists at the ...
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Problems when installing Macaulay2 in Ubuntu 18.04 [duplicate]

I want to install Macaulay2 on Ubuntu 18.04. I followed the instructions here and for some reason its not working. Could anybody help me figure this out? So this is what I have: Input sudo apt-get ...
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How do significantly-outdated mirrors affect the security of an ubuntu installation?

I run ubuntu on several internet-facing servers. I recently discovered that the official ubuntu mirror I was using was severely out of date; When I changed my sources and updated apt, I was surprised ...
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Different ways to completely remove a package ? Am I getting this right?

Do these two commands do the same thing ? sudo apt-get autoremove --purge pkg sudo apt-get purge --autoremove pkg My understanding is that they both do the same things: (1) Delete pkg. (2) Delete ...
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How to fix erlang unmet dependency errors?

I am facing dependency issues while doing installation of rabbitmq-server through APT. I have 2 files added in /etc/apt/sources.list.d: bintray.rabbitmq.list and rabbitmq_rabbitmq-server.list bintray....

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