apt is Advanced Packaging Tool, package manager for Debian based distributions.
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apt-get update fails with error : Failed to fetch http:
I've completed the Installation of ububtu 10.4 for x86_64 platform in one machine and updated all necesseray packages without issues.
Now i've installed in another Machine ... the installation ...
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After 12.04 to 12.10 upgrade (64bit), xorg held back and unable to install wine
After upgrading to quantal, I wanted to install wine. However, attempting to do so results in apt wanting to remove all kinds of important packages:
The following packages will be REMOVED:
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Squid3 and proxy system wide settings
I'm having a problem with system wide configuration, when I apply them I get "proxy server is refusing connection" but when I apply them to firefox it works fine.
Also, how would I allow apt-get, ...
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Accidentally deleted /etc/apt/apt.conf.d
I accidentally deleted the apt.conf.d folder and cant install (use the apt-get) anything
=( .
When I try to locate the apt.conf.d in the apt folder , its no longer there .
EDIT: When I open the apt ...
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apt-get and dependencies
I thought apt-get was a package manager that installs all dependencies by default when it installs an application. But when I tried installing gcc-4.7, I get this:
sudo apt-get install gcc-4.7
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How bad are duplicate entries in sources.list?
What is sources.list? Is it like 'registry?'
How important is it it to keep it 'clean?'
When I did
sudo apt-get update
the last lines to display were these:
W: Duplicate sources.list entry ...
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lib64readline6 conflicts
I've recently upgraded to a 64-bit machine (Kubuntu 12.04.02 AMD64) and in trying to assemble the list of things to compile some things I get conflicts. In trying to install lib64readline6 or ...
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How to search for APT packages with a specific substring in their names only?
In the past I used to search for a package specifying a part of its name in Synaptic, as far as I can remember. Now it searches in package descriptions too and this is very inconvenient as it gives a ...
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Mono experimantal packages and apt-get
I have a slight problem trying to get the mono experimental 3.0.6 installed on ubuntu. I am quite unexperienced with ubuntu and apt-get so bear with me please. I come from this link: ...
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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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Installed mupen64plus package, but can't see it anywhere
I installed mupen64plus using this command: apt-get install mupen64plus, then I tried to run it from the command line, but it didn't found the executable. Then I tried to look it up in xfce's list of ...
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Help! 13.04 installation nvidia driver
I've installed ubuntu 13.04 on my laptop hp 6720s with video card Intel 965 chpset Intel gma x3100.
After the boot the classic purple screen appear and before the login page the screen become black ...
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dpkg stale NFS problem, but no NFS ever used
I've been having issues with updating my computer running 13.04. The problems are also encountered while trying to do any package operation as far as I can tell. The error message is "Stale NFS ...
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mysql-client-core-5.5 : Breaks: mysql-client (< 5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1)
the automatic security update broke my mysql installation and I don't understand how to fix it. As far as I can tell the packages mysql-client-core-5.5 and mysql-client are on the same versio0n ...
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Installing Opera from deb froze software center, synaptic package manager, and update manager [duplicate]
I downloaded the opera Debian installer and it froze the software center. It is blank and has little circles that make a circle in the middle. The little circles aren't moving.
I tried synaptic and ...
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Problems installing Nitro Application?
I installed Nitro using apt-get. However, it is dependent of gir1.2-launchpad-integration-3.0 and is missing. How can I get the source code of gir1.2-launchpad-integration-3.0 somehow and install it ...
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Error while updating [closed]
I have Linux Mint 14 (nadia).
Lately when I try to update (apt-get update) this error appears:
W: GPG error: http://packages.medibuntu.org quantal Release: The following signatures couldn't be ...
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`apt-get -f install` fails after trying to uninstall cacti
I was trying to uninstall cacti, but apt-get returned an error, and apt-get -f install doesn't fix it:
swemg@rj42:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de ...
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When trying to install FirstClass, it asks for the packages libqt3-mt|libqt3c102-mt but for some reason I can't install those?
I am quite new to Ubuntu so I don't really now what I'm doing wrong, maybe someone can help me?
I wanted to install FirstClass but then it gave me an error that the packages libqt3-mt|libqt3c102-mt ...
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Why am I not getting “main” updates?
I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04 and since then I have the strong impression that I am not getting any update for the main packages.
In fact, since the upgrade to Ubuntu 13.04 some 15 ...
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trouble updating “sudo apt-get update” [duplicate]
I've been trying to install ruby on rails and it requires me to run this command. I am new to Linux so I'm not very familiar with everything but this is what comes out after I type "sudo apt-get ...
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Update Evince Oneiric
I would like to update Evince to the newest version (3.6.1) in Oneiric.
When I do apt-cache show evince i get package with this version: 3.2.1-0ubuntu2.3
So I downloaded the newest version with ...
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How to install autoconf
I need to install Tesseract, that need to install autoconf automake libtool,
However I got the error as follows:
sahu@sahu-desktop:/$ sudo apt-get install autoconf
Reading package lists... Done
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apt-get update fails to find some mirrors
I've configured my sources to use the mirrors:// "protocol" to find servers close to me, mainly since I move around a lot.
However, for some reason it doesn't work for all the repos - when I run sudo ...
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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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Update from 12.10 to 13.04 does not work?
When trying to update through sudo apt-get update I am getting these errors: I am kinda new to Ubuntu so any help would be appreciated :)
W: Failed to fetch ...
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Unmet dependencies (libgssapi-krb5-2: Depends: libkrb5-3 (= 1.10.1 + dfsg-4) but 1:10 + dfsg ~ beta1-2 is installed) [duplicate]
How do I solve this dependency?
root @ server :/ # apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists ... ready
Building dependency tree
Reading state information ... ready
You might want to run `apt-get-f ...
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No update for more than 7 days [closed]
I installed Ubuntu 13.04 on Apr. 25 after it was released. I am very surprised that since that I haven't received any update. I also tried to remove the update source list and ran sudo apt-get clean ...
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Install a Program from a Directory with All of Its Dependencies
Suppose I have a directory in which I have .deb packages for two programs with all there dependencies. I want to know if there is a apt or dpkg command, or another program to install one out of these ...
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Any way to tabulate the package name and license avail on Ubuntu repo? [duplicate]
I need to create a table with all installable packages on first column and its license in the second.
e.g.:
Gedit | GPL
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Ubuntu update problem [duplicate]
I`m trying to update & upgrade my current version of Ubuntu but I have some problems :
When I run apt-get update i get the following errors :
W: Failed to fetch ...
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Why does `apt-get install python-` remove everything? [duplicate]
Have a look at the output of this simulated apt-get:
$ apt-get -s install python-
NOTE: This is only a simulation!
apt-get needs root privileges for real execution.
Keep also in mind that ...
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Updating problems Ubuntu 12.10
Whenever I try to update my computer by opening the Update Manager I get this problem and it just closes. Can someone help me?
W:GPG error: http:/packages.medibuntu.org quantal InRelease: The ...
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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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How to restore original version of config file from package cannot be purged (e.g. base-files) by command?
I found a system's /etc/lsb-release has been modified and I want to replace it to the version in base-files package.
However I can't apt-get purge base-files because it contains crucial system files ...
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Apt-get retries download endlessly
May be I am putting this wrong. I have this problem: for some packages apt-get retries download endlessly (but does not get stuck), like this:
Need to get 19.3 MB/20.0 MB of archives.
After this ...
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Does installed from source software get overwritten by automatic updates?
As an example I've installed libcurl v7.30 from source, using their tutorial:
./configure --disable-ipv6 --enable-ares
make
make install
I've had libcurl installed from the official repository ...
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Ubuntu menu and applications bar gone, and some programs too
I was following this guide (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenCV) in order to install openCV.
sudo su
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libavformat-dev
sudo apt-get ...
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How do I setup a fine grained preseed with tasksel set to manual?
I am trying to preseed a netboot install of Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) x64.
Work Setup
My preseed configuration works fine as long as tasksel is not set to manual. For example:
[...]
d-i ...
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“cannot determine current directory” while building Haskell in 13.04
I'm trying to install the Haskell Platform on Raring. Since there's no apt package, I've downloaded the GHC 7.4.2 binary x86_64 distribution (which is a prerequisite), and I am trying to run ...
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Nitro app missing dependencies
I'm trying to install the Nitro task application, but I keep getting "Missing dependencies". I try to apt-get the dependencies and I get:
Package gir1.2-launchpad-integration-3.0 is not available, ...
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Upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04 failed, now neither Software Center nor Software Updater will open
The update to 13.04 was offered, I accepted but it failed. Now neither Software Centre nor Updater will open. SC opens for a second then closes; Updater tells me:
Failed to load the package list
This ...
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How can I install git-annex assistant
I install recently git annex in ubuntu 12.10 using APT. However, the package seems to be built without the assistant support.
Is there a PPA or another way of installing it ? I'd rather avoid ...
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Release upgrade notification after upgrade completed
I've upgraded my ubuntu server to the 13.04 release. Unfortunately during the upgrade process I lost the connection to the server and the server hasn't completed correctly the upgrade to this release.
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Unable to update by sudo apt-get update in the terminal [duplicate]
john:~$ sudo apt-get update
E: Type 'ain' is not known on line 3 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ferramroberto-filezilla-oneiric.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.
when I run ...
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Lost/Deleted dpkg (package manager for Debian). How do I get it back?
OS: Ubuntu 12.04
Accidentally deleted dpkg. Now, packages can't be installed. So, needs an dpkg installer which installs packages.
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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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No updates after release?
I installed 13.04 some weeks ago (before release). I did sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade on a daily basis and obtained a lot of updates/bugfixes etc. In the last couple of days, nothing ...
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How prioritize the source of a package?
I wanna install Haguichi from the PPA recommended repository here, but looking a repository is there a Rhythmbox version too, it is possible add the repository only for Haguichi and that Rhythmbox ...
