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 Remove Anydesk Software In Ubantu 22.04 LTS? [duplicate]
Malformed entry 1 in list file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/archive_uri-http_deb_anydesk_com_-jammy.list (Component)
E: Malformed entry 1 in list file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/archive_uri-...
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can't run apt --fix-broken install [duplicate]
Can't use apt it say run apt --fix-broken install and after that throws an error. Tried installing libapt-pkg6.0 manually but can't fix the issue.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency ...
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Unable to upgrade due to unmet dependencies [duplicate]
Apologies up front if I'm asking a stupid question, I'm still pretty green when it comes to Linux. I am running Ubuntu Server 20.04 and trying to use sudo apt upgrade to update my system, but I get an ...
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sudo apt update creates issues [duplicate]
Hit:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports ...
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Trying to enable 32 bit architeture and suport for Vulkan API
I'm trying to install some games in Ubuntu, specifically leagueoflegends, so I'm running this following command to add kisak-mesa PPA, enable 32 bit architecture, update and upgrade my system, install ...
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What is the difference/relation between /var/log/apt/history.log and /var/log/apt/term.log?
About apt in the /var/log/apt directory appears mostly the history.log and term.log files and their "variations" (old versions) such as:
history.log.1.gz ... history.log.11.gz
term.log.1.gz ...
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apt --purge autoremove can't find older kernels
I am on Ubuntu 20.04 and I trying to understand what's going on with my Linux kernels, and there is something that looks odd to me. The current kernel should be:
@precision-3551:~$ uname -r
5.13.0-44-...
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"apt upgrade" on aarch64 reports "No VM guests are running outdated hypervisor (qemu) binaries on this host"
Every apt upgrade show this error/warning message
- Scanning processes...
Scanning candidates...
Scanning processor microcode...
Scanning linux images...
Running kernel seems to be up-to-date.
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how to prevent apt from automatically installing snaps
I don't hate snap as much as some people but I do usually prefer not to use it so it's really annoying when I:
apt install
and it just installs a snap without asking, is there a way I can prevent ...
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apt broken - Unable to Install or Update packages as pending removal keeps failing
I have a problem with an old SQL Server package on my Kubuntu install which I installed from the old repository by accident (missed a line when commenting out stuff for a new build).
This has left me ...
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Segmentation fault in freeradius-utils package on Ubuntu 22.04
Running standard Ubuntu 22.04 using the official Docker image, I get a segfault when attempting to use smbencrypt from freeradius-utils:
$ docker run -it ubuntu:22.04
# apt update && apt ...
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Boot partition full, cannot run software updater
error that says not enough space on boot
sudo apt-get -f autoremove
results in
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 100 not upgraded.
I've manually removed all kernels (with sudo rm on /boot)...
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Restore mandb-triggers after unminimizing installation
The Problem
I've installed Ubuntu 22.04 with minimized installation, then I "unmimized" it by executing sudo unminimize. However, the man package was not originally present and thus mandb-...
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unattended updates don't update anything for me [duplicate]
I'm relatively new to ubuntu from fedora, I'm looking for alternative for dnf-automatic. That one you configured and all is applied by default, which is what I'm looking for. Update all immediately, ...
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Installation of new kernel does not write to /var/run/reboot-required on Intel x64 system (but works on RasPi)
I have Ubuntu Server 22.04 installed on both an Intel Atom (amd64) and a Raspberry Pi (arm64).
With the last kernel update (installed by unattended-upgrades) the files /var/run/reboot-required and /...
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Ubuntu occasionally downgrades Tomcat to the version from apt repository
I'm using Tomcat 9 on Ubuntu 20.04.
The apt installs Tomcat 9.0.31 which has a HTTPS-related bug preventing our web application from working well.
To fix the issue, I am manually updating Tomcat to a ...
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Cannot install or uninstall anything after update to jellyfish
No matter what I try to install or uninstall, I get blocked. When I try to do it via Terminal, I always get the exact same message referencing ms-teams:
$ sudo apt remove zoom
E: Conflicting values ...
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Broken package error while installing PHP8.1 [duplicate]
I'm trying to install PHP but this error keep occurring and I don't know how to solve it. Can someone help me? error
❯ sudo apt-get install php
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree ...
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22.04 load-from-cold using much less space than 20.04 to 22.04 upgrade
I need to determine which approach is going to result in a smaller final disk size, so I tested two scenarios...
Install 20.04 server and immediately upgrade to 22.04 -- this used 5.5 GB, even after ...
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APT-Mirror Stuck on downloading index files "Downloading 270 index files using 20 threads"
I get the following output after a clean install of apt-mirror and running as root:
Downloading 270 index files using 20 threads
[20] ...
Nothing seems to happen after waiting a couple minutes. This ...
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Unmet dependencies while installing RISC pre-reqs
I am installing pre-reqs to get a risc environment set up on my local ubuntu machine using a tutorial. However, I run into errors with these 2 dependencies. Can anyone guide me as to how I can fix ...
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Issue upgrading 21.04 to 22.04 (only shows 21.10 upgrade option) [duplicate]
I am trying to upgrade my system from 21.04 to 22.04 LTS.
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 21.04
Release: 21.04
Codename: hirsute
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az.archive.ubuntu.com is down. How can I get the updates? [duplicate]
When I run "sudo apt-get update" the request gets timed out, because az.archive.ubuntu.com is down. I checked whether it was just me, but it says that it is actually down. Should I just wait ...
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libopenmpt-modplug1:amd64 [duplicate]
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files list file for package 'libopenmpt-modplug1:amd64' is missing final newline
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
How can I fix this. ...
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How to solve this W: and N: error message when perform $sudo apt update [duplicate]
All packages are up to date.
W: http://as-repository.openvpn.net/as/debian/dists/bionic/InRelease: Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg), see the DEPRECATION section in ...
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I accidentally installed MySQL + MariaDB-- MySQL is now unremovable, and dpkg/apt does not work [duplicate]
This is a frustrating issue regarding my own personal negligence. I had forgotten I had an instance of MariaDB installed when I installed mysql-server-8.0 onto my laptop. Unfortunately, it seems this ...
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apt-get: Unmet Dependencies and Conflicting (?) Output on Ubuntu 21.10 [duplicate]
I'm trying to install common-lisp-jupyter on Ubuntu 21.10, but Ubuntu won’t install one of the required libraries, namely zeromq.
When I tried to install zeromq using the libczmq-dev package, apt-get ...
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Upgrade process stuck
This pc has been running Ubuntu for sometime without hassles. This last week some of the services that I am running on the machine started failing. I logged into the machine using SSH.
Tried to run an ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 won't let deb files to update applications
Installing apps with a .deb is quite easy, but then there's an update to the same application, I download the new .deb file, execute the file will take me to the application's page in "Ubuntu ...
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I was trying to download wine and this error occurred [duplicate]
sudo apt-key add winehq.key
Warning: apt-key is deprecated. Manage keyring files in trusted.gpg.d instead (see apt-key(8)).
OK
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LiveOS - Uninstallation by `apt purge` is supposed to increase free disk space, but it actually decreases free disk space. Why? [closed]
By uninstalling a package, we expect that there will be more free disk space. However, "sudo apt purge PACKAGE" actually decreases the free disk space. It seems that "apt purge" ...
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Ubuntu no longer updates saying it can't be done securely since it's no longer signed
Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
See the errors below. I can no longer update my repos or install new packages. Every repo is saying that it is no longer signed. This only started happening yesterday and it was ...
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MendeleyDesktop removed on update [duplicate]
I've found an odd quirk and am curious if there's a reason or a workaround. I'm running Ubuntu 20.04, and I've installed the Mendeley desktop deb file, downloaded from the Mendeley site. However, ...
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Cannot install docker-desktop on ubuntu 22.04
I am trying to install docker-desktop from here. I downloaded the .deb package with:
sudo dpkg -i docker-desktop-4.8.1-amd64.deb
but I got a couple of missing dependencies problems:
(Reading database ...
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Ubuntu 22.04. Upgrading installs new linux-headers, etc. Are they necessary?
I tried sudo apt update it said there are something to upgrade, so I tried upgrade, and the output is below. It says that the following NEW packages will be installed and will use additional 560MB. If ...
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22.04 offline installation
For a system without internet access, I've downloaded both ubuntu-22.04-desktop-amd64.iso and ubuntu-22.04-live-server-amd64.iso.
I installed from the live-server installation and configured no ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 Unable to apt update [duplicate]
Good Morning,
I have been an Ubuntu user for 12 years and now I am encountering a problem which prevents me from installing new software on all my Ubuntu 20.04 systems.
When I do apt update:
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what is Unknown Multi-Arch type 'forekgn' for package 'mythes-ca' in linux?
m newbie and when i using sudo apt-get update, it shows that
Hit:1 https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Get:3 http:/...
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Uninstalling package python3.10 nuked half of my system
I upgraded to the latest Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Before I had python 3.9 but I needed 3.10 so I installed,
sudo apt install python3.10
After the update, the standard python was bumped to 3.10 so I no ...
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Why Ubuntu pkg repos are not SSL-encrypted? [duplicate]
Neither archive.ubuntu.com nor *.archive.ubuntu.com have SSL encryption by default. That's danger and horrible, esp. for public servers, as hackers can pretend as archive.ubuntu.com and send debs with ...
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Error occurs with "apt update -y && apt install iptables-persistent" [duplicate]
I am trying to run the command
apt update -y && apt install iptables-persistent
and always an error returns.
I connected to three different servers one in Greece, one in Austria, one in USA ...
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unknown package in google-chrome_stable 101.0.4951.64-1 [duplicate]
I'm trying to install google-chrome-stable:
sudo curl -sS -o - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add
sudo echo "deb https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable ...
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Downgrading from buggy nvidia 470 to older 460 not possible (transitional package)
There have been some upgrades of kernel and/or NVIDIA packages on my laptop (Ubuntu 20.04, the normal upgrade popups that occur from time to time). After a reboot I now get a blank screen and this ...
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apt upgrade apparently "stuck" in a loop
Ubuntu 20.04.2
At the n-th sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade I got the message that
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
nsight-compute-2022.2.0 ...
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Is it possible to view recently removed snap packages?
I'm trying to remove snap from my system because I use and prefer apt. I was removing snap packages and reinstalling them via apt but forgot to use the --purge option with snap to remove any left over ...
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Installing the fcitx5-frontend-qt5 package
I am trying to install the fcitx5-frontend-qt5 package so that I can use it on qt applications. Unfortunately, this error comes up every time:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree ...
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Problem upgrading from 21.10 to 22.04
In attempting to upgrade 21.10 with the following I'm told to "install all available updates".
$ sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish InRelease
Hit:2 http://au....
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apt freezes mid-install/uninstall every time, Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
I'm out of ideas how to fix this, it has persisted across reboots, apt updates, apt upgrades, even a sudo dpkg --configure -a
The nice thing is I have two machines both behaving this way, both are ...
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Unable to remove Wine repository [duplicate]
I have tried everything so far that I can find online and I am unable to delete wine key.
I have installed new Ubuntu 22.04 and installed Wine, but it seems like it has trouble updating it via ...
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Finding past depedencies of a package
I am looking into finding the past dependencies of certain packages. I know that in order to get the current ones I can use apt-cache depends packagename. However, this only gives me the current ...
