apt is Advanced Packaging Tool, package manager for Debian based distributions.
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do-release-upgrade (12.04-12.10) fails with fatal error (can't start sshd??)
I have a 12.04 server (running on amazon aws). I want to upgrade it to 12.10.
The command do-release-upgrade warns me that since I am connecting over ssh (I have no choice in this), a separate sshd ...
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Can not remove automatically installed packages
I have installed alacarte by this
sudo aptitude install alacarte
after this aptitude shows me list of dependencies:
dimanne@Impedance:~$ sudo aptitude install alacarte
[sudo] password for dimanne:
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Why “sudo apt-get install” doesn't find a package?
I am getting this error:
sudo apt-get install emacs23
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package emacs23
Moreover, I ...
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How can I mark all packages with installed dependents as “Automatically Installed”?
There are some similar questions, but here is precisely what I would like to achieve and the dots which I am having trouble connecting:
Query a list of "Manually Installed" packages (apt-mark ...
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Update postgresql with latest security update
PostgreSQL announced on the 4th of April a security update to its PostgreSQL server.
I really want to install that update. But if I run sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade the update does ...
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Can i exclude certain repositories from apt-get upgrade?
I have installed percona extra backup by adding their repository. This worked and i was able to install the software successfully.
However now I am trying to run "apt-get upgrade" and it is trying ...
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How to sudo apt-get install all latex CJK?
Is there a way to just install latex packages with sudo apt-get install ??
like for https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/quantal/latex-cjk-chinese/ and also the japanese and korean ones?
I'm on ...
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Uninstall build dependencies using apt-get
To install the build dependencies of some software, we use command
$ sudo apt-get build-dep XXXX
What to do in case we want to remove those packages only, those dependency packages installed by ...
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apt-get ignores all packages with “Translation-en_US”
Having a problem on an EC2 Ubuntu Lucid instance where if I run (sudo) apt-get update all packages with Translation-en_US are ignored.
Hit http://ap-southeast-2.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com lucid ...
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How can I install a later version of solr-jetty via apt-get?
Using apt-get to install solr-jetty only gives me version 1.4 of Solr, but I would like to use one of the 3.x versions.
I'm not yet confident enough to do a manual installation (something usually ...
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'Apt-Get install' & Software center not installed?
I did the command sudo apt-get purge and all my apt- commands and my software center are no longer installed.
when ever i do 'sudo apt-get update' even, i get 'sudo: apt-get: command not found'
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Ubuntu Archive API?
I'm trying to query the Ubuntu archive on a machine that doesn't have python-apt installed (and for reasons beyond my control can't have python-apt installed). Is there an API endpoint for ...
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Install gnome desktop in kubuntu
I am trying to install gnome desktop from kubuntu. So I did this : sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop It ran well but now I am getting this error:
sudeep@sudeep:~$ sudo apt-get install ...
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how do I find location of packages
I am trying to install several things on my machine.
For example php-pear.
I need to put to location of the repository in sources.list
How can I locate it?
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What does gnome-settings-daemon is not ready for configuration mean?
On a recent Ubuntu 12.10 install, something innocent like apt-get install xfonts-75dpi is giving this message:
dpkg: error processing gnome-settings-daemon (--configure):
package ...
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Why did I have to edit /etc/lsb-release to get apt-get to work?
I can't open the software sources window from the software center. I can't use apt-get add-apt-repository (and other things).
The error I get with add-apt-repository is:
Traceback (most recent ...
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How to upgrade postgresql from 9.2.0 to 9.2.4 [duplicate]
The title says it all.
if I run sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get upgrade none of the postgresql packages get updated. While the psql version 9.2.0 is and the last update is 9.2.4.
Am I ...
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'apt-get update' fails when using proxy
Using apt-get update I am getting
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main amd64 Packages
404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch
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Getting “server certificate verification failed” during apt-get update
I am trying to update a system using an HTTPS package mirror located here:
https://mirror.ufs.ac.za/os/linux/distros/ubuntu/ubuntu/
However, during apt-get update, I get the following message:
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How do I delete all packages which match a certain pattern?
I want to uninstall libreoffice. This program consists of about three dozen modules. Ideally, they could be removed with:
aptitude remove libreoffice3.6* libreoffice-debian-menus libobasis3.6-*
but ...
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Apt-get vs Wget [closed]
So I used wget to install winetricks instead of apt-get. I noticed when you install things via apt-get, you can just type the name (i.e. winetricks) in terminal and it'll run it, same with the dash. ...
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Unable to install qt4-designer under ubuntu 12.10 [duplicate]
I failed to install qt4-designer under ubuntu 12.10 because I got this error message:
qt4-designer:
Depends: libqt4-designer (=4:4.8.3+dfsg-0ubuntu3.1) but 4:4.8.3+dfsg-0ubuntu4~quantal1~test4 is ...
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failed to install gnome3 ubuntu 12.04
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell gnome-session
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
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Error when installing librxtx-java
When I attempt to install librxtx-java I get this output:
Unpacking replacement librxtx-java ...
Processing triggers for doc-base ...
Processing 2 changed doc-base files...
Setting up librxtx-java ...
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Ramifications of uninstalling GCC 4.7 in leu of GCC 4.6 in Quantal?
I currently have both the gcc-4.6 and gcc-4.7 packages installed in Quantal. I do a lot of software development but haven't had a need for any features that are specific to GCC 4.7. Therefore, in ...
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How to fix my apt-get sources?
After I poked some in sources.list adding cassandra and so I get an apt-get error:
Hämtade 2 484 kB på 7s (345 kB/s)
W: failed to fetch ...
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installation problem /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Anything I tried to install I get this error message:
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-3.2.0-23-generic-pae
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How to fix Bug in Update-Manager in Ubuntu 12.10? [duplicate]
Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:
E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList ...
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cannot install texlive [duplicate]
I have installed texlive before, and it worked well;
But after I installed gnome, the cmd pdflatex can not work.
moon@moon-Rev:~$ pdflatex
The program 'pdflatex' is currently not installed. You can ...
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Package error making it unable to install anything in 12.10
The other day I was trying out different desktop environments, like Pantheon, Gnome, etc.
But when I was trying to install Pantheon/Elementary Shell, it came up with an error, I ignored it thinking ...
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I can't update my 12.04 LTS for Linux
If I try to update my 12.04 LTS for Linux Ubuntu I get this message:
Could not initialise the package information
An unresolvable problem occurred while initialising the package information.
Please ...
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Problem installing Python-Dev
I am having trouble installing python-dev. My goal is to be able to install numpy (for example) into my Python virtualenv. When I try to install numpy:
(test):~/Projects/test$ pip install numpy
I ...
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Apt behind proxy
I've been trying to get a package manager to work behind our company proxy for a whole day now but without any luck. The proxy requires authentication which is my personal email address and password. ...
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How to install the apt-get command, when it's itself been removed?
I installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my Asus tf101 and wanted to strip it down a little bit
removed the desktop environment and any application that comes with it.
By doing this I accidentally removed removed ...
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Trouble installing libflann1.7-dev on ubuntu
I am trying to install libflann1.7-dev I have removed libflann1, so now I have no libflann at all. Next I ran:
sudo apt-get install libflann1.7
which installed fine, I then try to install ...
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Reinstall package and its installed dependencies
I've got a package installed that is broken (the package itself, not its dependencies). Reinstalling it with sudo dpkg-reconfigure <package> or sudo apt-get --reinstall install <package> ...
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upgrade MySQL through apt not effect?
I am upgrading mysql-server and mysql-client my 12.04 using apt-get.
seems the upgrade didn't take effect?
Any thoughts why this happen? I did reboot after upgrade. Thanks.
$ mysql -V
mysql Ver ...
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python2.7: not found: Unable to install or remove any packages
I am currently unable to install any packages. At first it started with complaints that it couldn't find /usr/bin/python (not 100% sure of the path here) so I tried to re-install python using ...
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APT autoremove old packages
How to autoremove all installed packages and not existed in repositories? Example: after several dist-upgrades there is many libs (libapt-inst1.3 libapt-inst1.4 libapt-inst1.5, great count of ...
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How do I prevent apt-get upgrade from installing unwanted packages
Package "gwibber" is not installed on my server, and yet when I run apt-get upgrade I see the following:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The ...
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sources.list & sources.list.d in /etc/apt [duplicate]
I could find that there is a sources.list file as well as a sources.list.d directory in the /etc/apt directory. If I am not wrong, both are used to set up the deb files for the packages we need to ...
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Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) when I upgrade
Setting up mono-runtime (2.4.4~svn151842-1ubuntu4.1) ...
Setting up libmono-system2.0-cil (2.4.4~svn151842-1ubuntu4.1) ...
Setting up libmono-posix2.0-cil (2.4.4~svn151842-1ubuntu4.1) ...
Processing ...
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WiFi not working on MacBook Pro running 12.10
I've seen many other posts like this and found one other where the problem was resolved, but the terminal commands given were for a different pcid than mine. I ran several commands including:
sudo ...
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failed to update apt-get [duplicate]
every time i run sudo apt-get update the following error occurs .
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/ackondro/tibesti/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found
W: Failed ...
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How can I make squid-deb-proxy work with proxy authentication?
I have squid-deb-proxy working fine without a problem without apt proxy authentication.
However when I add a proxy file to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d and put in my proxy authentication inside this file. ...
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How to create package download script with correct dependencies?
In Synaptic it's possible to select a bunch of packages for installation (or reinstallation), then just click File → Generate package download script to get a set of commands to download the ...
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How does squid-deb-proxy handle older/newer versions of Ubuntu?
I followed Jorge Castro thread here
and its working without a problem! on 12.04-2 x64 bit. However I have a question:
If there is an old/newer version client of ubuntu. How does it fetch cached ...
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upgrade has a problem
when I use:
sudo dpkg --configure -a
I get this:
Setting up rsyslog (5.8.6-1ubuntu9.1) ...
dpkg: error processing rsyslog (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 boots into black blank screen
I installed Ubuntu server 12.04 about 2 weeks ago. It had been working well and running 24/7 until I accidentally restarted it yesterday. Shouldn't have been a problem, yet now it just sits at a black ...
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Debian Package Creation- how to define environment variables within the package
I built a package with the sudo-ldap package defined as a dependency in the control file (please see below). I'm going to have people install using the gdebi command to install which should install ...
