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 to solve GPG Error with packages.microsoft.com PUBKEY
After installing MS VS Code and doing sudo apt update. an error appeared.
Err:4 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable InRelease
The ...
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Errors were encountered while processing: tzdata
I have been installing Ubuntu on a not-so-old laptop, and when I tried to install a package, I got the Errors were encountered while processing: tzdata.
I have tried to do dpkg-reconfigure tzdata but ...
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Can't install libsdl2-dev without downgrading SDL2 [duplicate]
I am trying to install the SDL2 development headers to compile a program that imports SDL2. Here is the output when I run the command $sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev:
Reading package lists... Done
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Ubuntu 20.04 Utility to fix W: Duplicate sources.list entry
I get "W: Duplicate sources.list entry" messages when using the ~$ sudo apt install or ~$ sudo apt update commands. These are caused by duplicate sources listed in /etc/apt/sources.list and ...
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After upgrade to 22.04, dpkg is broken by firefox and won't fix
I went through Software Updater to upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04, but now dpkg(1) says the package system is broken:
firefox-locale-en: Depends: firefox (>= 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2) but 105.0+build2-...
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Target Packages (sutton/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oem-sutton.simon-baara-meta.list:1 [duplicate]
I am facing this warning error while doing sudo apt update, I think some files in the source.list.d is being more than once that's what causing the error. I don't want to mess with the system and want ...
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Binwalk error on update ubuntu jammy jellyfish
After installation. I run command binwalk and it shows me following error.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/binwalk", line 4, in <module>
__import__('...
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Signing key error while upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04
I got this gpg error while upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04:
GPG error: https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable InRelease:
The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is ...
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Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS update Connection failed error
The sudo apt-get update or sudo apt install python3-pip leads to errors.
I pinged google and the IP that was given for Ubuntu update and all went over fine
update error
Connection failed [IP: 185....
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error in openvpn installation [duplicate]
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
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rst2man: configure: error: rst2man is required
I am trying to install the latest version of BlueZ from remote (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git) using the following steps:-
./bootstrap
./configure --disable-dependency-tracking
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I can not get Updates to work at all. I'm using Ubuntu 22.04. This is also affecting downloading and installing applications?
sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Ign:2 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease
Err:1 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy ...
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Could not wait for server fd - select (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) [IP: 148.251.160.247 443] [duplicate]
i try to run sudo apt update but i get flowing error
Hit:1 http://ir.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:2 http://ir.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease ...
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apt install fails because of avahi-daemon.service (20.04)
I am trying to install a program with apt install (or apt-get install) but it always fails due to an error with the avahi-daemon.
See below (ignore the program wine is already installed. This happens ...
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Phased updates stuck on 0%?
Greetings Ubuntu Community,
I use sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade to update my 22.04 LTS install. I typically run the command a couple times throughout the week. I've noticed though for ...
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unable to locate openmpi-bin
I'm on windows 10 and I'm using virtualBox to run ubuntu version 22.04.1, I couldn't install openmpi-bin or libopenmpi-dev
sudo apt-get install openmpi-bin lipopenmpi-dev
Reading package lists... Done
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Force install php 7 packages on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
While I know that php 8 is the default PHP choice on Ubuntu 22.04, I still use php 7 for my project. When installing packages related to PHP, the dependancies always pick php-common, php-*, etc.. and ...
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How to solve the problem of unmet dependencies on Ubuntu-22.04
Basically, when I am trying to upgrade my ubuntu I got this error saying :
christian@christian-HP-EliteBook-840-G3:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... ...
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Ubuntu Packages not found even after updating sudo apt etc
I'm rather new to Ubuntu but have been trying to install a number of packages through the bash from Windows. The problem for many of them is that it they are not found. I'm getting the error message:
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Ubuntu 22.04 after installing python3.11 upgrade fails [duplicate]
After I installed python3.11 and 3.11-venv (already have 3.10), whenver I try to apt upgrade, I get this message (translated)
python3-dev: Depends: python3 (= 3.10.6-1~22.04) aber 3.10.6-1~22.04 is ...
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How to get APT to list all packages with files in a given path
I accidentally removed /usr/sbin from a few machines. I would like to find a way to query dpkg or apt to tell me all of the packages which have files in that path, so that I can re-install them.
The ...
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dpkg error trying to override /use/share/metainfo/granite.appdata.xml which is also in libgranite-common
I have tried this solution however it seems like dpkg is unable to remove that dependency either. Here is my terminal output when I try to fix broken dependency:
ayon@schneizel:/usr/share/applications$...
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kernel not upgrading to minor versions in 22.04 LTS
I have Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (upgraded from 20.04 LTS). It seems my kernel is not upgraded automatically to newer minor versions:
root:~# dpkg uname -a
Linux destop 5.15.0-47-generic #51-Ubuntu SMP Thu ...
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Inconsistent dependency on systemd package versions [closed]
This looks strange:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libnss-systemd : Depends: systemd (= 249.11-0ubuntu3.4)
libpam-systemd : Depends: systemd (= 249.11-0ubuntu3.4)
libsystemd0 : ...
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apt-rollback messed things up, now I'm unable to run apt upgrade
I get conflict on libsystemd which I didn't manage to fix,
Help please!
sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
You might want ...
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Attempting to update the 'UEFI dbx' package crashes my system
I was getting an annoying "failed to update metadata for lvfs" in the Kubuntu 20.04 'discover' app. This was causing no problems, but I found a site that recommended fixing it by running ...
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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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Login is taking lot of time and more in case of locking the user | Ubuntu 22.04 |
I installed Ubuntu 22.04, and for some time, I haven't used the machine for quite some time (2 months). After 2 months, I opened the machine and ran the upgrades using the package managers. Soonly, ...
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libdeflate0 is kept back - dependency conflict
I updated my Ubuntu 20.04.4 to be able to upgrade it to 22.04.1, but I am experiencing problems with libdeflate0. As already mentioned in the title, there is a dependency conflict:
sudo apt list --...
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SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:852)
Dockerfile i have below for y-ppa-manager package installation.
FROM ubuntu:18.04
RUN add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/y-ppa-manager
RUN apt-get update -y
RUN apt-get install -y y-ppa-manager
But ...
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grub-efi-amd64-signed dependency issue in Ubuntu 22.04LTS
After standard apt-get upgrade and reboot now I am getting the following error when I am trying to run apt-get upgrade in 22.04 LTS:
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
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What's the difference between `apt-cache` and `apt list`?
What's the difference between apt-cache and apt list? It seems that apt list uses installed command. I can see some packages are available in the results of apt-cache but they are not seen in the ...
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How to work with package repository mirrors frozen at a certain date?
I set up a mirror for the usual Ubuntu repositories. This mirror only synchronizes when triggered manually for stability reasons.
The problem I have now is that I want to create a docker environment (...
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E: Sub-process /sur/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
After running the commands sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade in the terminal, my screen suddenly went black.
By rebooting my computer, I had access to a terminal, in which I entered:
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Why is collectd package not available in Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS?
collectd was available in 20.04 but when trying to install it in 22.04 I get this error:
E: Package 'collectd' has no installation candidate
screenshot of errror
Why is this?
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My Ubuntu 22.04 OS wont update with "sudo apt update" [duplicate]
I am new to Linux and am looking for some guidance. After trying to update my system I get two types of errors from the terminal:
Err:5 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/nilarimogard/webupd8/ubuntu ...
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no icon on my desktop ubuntu 22.04
after an upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04, i have no icon on my desktop.
I've tried to reinstall ubuntu-desktop:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
but i have now an error:
update-alternatives:...
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Deleted whole /etc/apt catalogue Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS minimal headless server
Today i deleted whole /etc/apt directory (don't ask me how/why xD)
I already managed to reinstall apt with
sudo dpkg -i apt_2.4.5_amd64.deb
also created sources.list and added standard repositories ...
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apt upgrade gives errors [duplicate]
I've been unable to upgrade for some time now due to errors. Here is the latest output.
Please note that I have tried to uninstall QGIS, so I'm not sure why apt update is still checking it.
My goal is ...
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Doubts about cron on ubuntu
I'm learning to use Cron on Ubuntu, and I would like to ask some questions:
How can I open the terminal using cron? and then he sends a command? the command and this "sudo sinprod", I need ...
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Lubuntu 22.04 LTS pulseaduio corrupted after apt upgrade: how to troubleshoot?
I installed Lubuntu 22.04 LTS desktop environment in Xubuntu 22.04 LTS OS on my laptop, everything works good, so the OS shouldn't have problem.
Then I installed a Lubuntu 22.04 LTS OS to a Win11 ...
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apt autoremove asking to remove linux image generic, is it safe?
when I ran it recently it showed me this
~$ sudo apt autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
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Unable to update Ubuntu 22.04 through command line [duplicate]
I'm trying to update my Ubuntu 22.04 with the command sudo apt-get update, but it shows following error:
sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://pk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Hit:2 http://pk....
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Upgrade Ubuntu Server 20.04.5 LTS/22.04.1 LTS - appears "Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading"
Having VirtualBox with Ubuntu Server based on:
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal
and
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Missing method driver drom for apt on kubuntu 22.04
I have a relatively fresh install of kubuntu 22.04 lts. I have made very few changes to apt other than add a few repositories for third party applications. However recently while running a system ...
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PPA keeps coming back while trying to upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04
I've tried using ppa-purge to get rid of it, said it was successful, removed it in the software & updates/Other software tab in the GUI, but then when I try to upgrade, it says:
An unresolvable ...
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How to use a different dpkg status file to autoinstall packages
I am moving from a 2TB hard drive to a 4TB SSD. I have installed 22.04LTS on the new SSD. The complete list of non-SNAP packages I have is in /var/lib/dpkg/status . How do I force apt to install ...
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Error: when installing the DEB packages for docker desktop on ubuntu
I am following the docs to install docker on Vmware ubuntu
when I run:
sudo apt-get install ./docker-desktop-4.11.0-amd64.deb
I get this:
Reading package lists... Error!
E: read, still have 8 to ...
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issue with Kitewire apt repository when running apt update [duplicate]
My issue is as the title states. this is the error message that I'm getting:
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'https://apt.kitware.com/ubuntu uma Release' does not have a Release file.
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How can I install latex on Ubuntu 20.04.5
I cannot install latex on Ubuntu 20.04.5 via the commands:
sudo apt install -y texlive
sudo apt install -y texlive-full
I got the response: no texlive and no texlive-full
Could you please help me?