Aptitude is a quite powerful package manager leveraging CLI and an ncurses-style interface.
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When I am using Update Manager and Aptitude. I get this error. Ubuntu-Gnome 13.04 [duplicate]
I have Ubuntu-Gnome 13.04 operating system, When I use Update Manager , i get following error
E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList ...
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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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The && concatenator stopped working when executing “sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade”. ¿Why is that happening?
Problems with && concatenator. It stopped concatenating.
I ran:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:igorgomes/ppa
sudo aptitude update
The aptitude update command began generating a screen output ...
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Obsolete packages vs. orphaned packages
What is the difference between obsolete and orphaned packages? More specifically, why does deborphan produce this:
dave@ubuntu:~$ deborphan
libbind9-80
libllvm3.1
libgrail5
libpython3.2
libsvga1
...
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How to install xnviewmp using package management aptitude `apt-get` on Ubuntu 12.10?
How to install xnviewmp using package management aptitude apt-get on Ubuntu 12.10?
Visiting https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/xnviewmp/ and
clicking through to software center ends results in ...
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aptitude proxy configuration
I had my machine set up been behind proxy for a while; now I have direct internet access and hence removed the proxy configuration. However, aptitude still tries to connect through the old proxy and I ...
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Install a package manager without package manager
I'm doing some work on a really, really minimalistic Debian dist and noticed that there is no package manager on it.
Can anyone tell me how I can fix this? There is no GUI but I have a Internet ...
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2answers
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Ubuntu 12.04 I can't download anything… at all
I recently upgraded from Maveric(10.10) to 12.04 (by wiping out Maveric from my system completely) I was using a pen drive, so it messed up my grub. I finally managed to reinstall the grub on the ...
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apt mirror error: qzip stdin not in gzip format
we are getting below error when we run apt-mirror.
qzip stdin not in gzip format
qzip stdin not in gzip format
qzip stdin not in gzip format
qzip stdin not in gzip format
PPPPPPPPPPP
133gb will ...
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Can't find ia32-libs after install ubuntu-restricted-extras by aptitude [duplicate]
I am using 12.10 64bit and I installed ia32-libs before. But after I install aptitude and install ubuntu-restricted-extras, the ia32-libs went to unavailable.
I believe that the aptitude remove a ...
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500 Internal Server Error whenever I use apt-get
I'm running ubuntu 12.04
I'm getting a huge number of "500 Internal Server Error" errors whenever I try to apt-get install/upgrade. aptitude yields exactly the same errors. I know there are ...
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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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3answers
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which version of python is installed?
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 in my VirtualBox. Is python installed by default? If not, How can I install python?
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aptitude upgrade linux 3.2.0-39 problem
since yesterday I am trying to upgrade my system to the latest version. I am using Ubuntu Server 12.04.2 LTS. The strangest thing happens when I try to upgrade my system. Here is the output of ...
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Aptitude depends [duplicate]
How do i fix this?
I also did sudo apt-get -f install but same error
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
aptitude: Depends: libapt-pkg4.12 (>= 0.8.16~exp12ubuntu6) but it is not ...
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Will this sudo rule allow a user to update the system and nothing more?
I want to design a sudo rule that will allow the user ricardo to update the system using aptitude, but prevent him from using sudo to run any other command (he's a problem user). Are there any ...
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apt-get install segfault [duplicate]
when i tried to apt-get install pkg_name then i got this
Reading package lists... Done
Segmentation faulty tree... 50%
and this appears in the /var/log/syslog file
Feb 13 15:22:19 hostname ...
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How exactly does Synaptic keep track of “New in repository” packages?
Is this info part of APT cache or does it create a separate file to compare with new cache?
Where is it stored then?
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1answer
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Installing flash on Ubuntu
I have an EC2 instance running Ubuntu 12.10 and I'd like to install Flash Player on it. However, when I try to install it as follows, I'm unable to. Some hint on how I could proceed? Thanks.
$ sudo ...
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2answers
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aptitude cant install ia32-libs
When I run aptitude install ia32-libs it gives me this output (on Pastebin due to length constraints of StackExchange).
The install fails, as it leaves ia32-libs in a Not Installed state. All other ...
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1answer
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How do I find which packages could be set as automatically installed?
I am having a hard time understand who depends on who using apt-cache depends and apt-cache rdepends. I am keeping a long list of packages that I installed to solve a number of dependency problems.
I ...
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Software Center: “unable to get exclusive lock” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Unable to use package manager due to “exclusive lock” error
I get the following message when trying to use update-manager:
unable to get exclusive lock
I've tried ...
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2answers
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aptitude - Package removal on jdk installation
I tried the following command
aptitude install sun-java6-jdk
It prompts me that the following packages will be removed.
ant{u} ant-gcj{u} ant-optional{u} ant-optional-gcj{u}
...
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1answer
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Aptitude installs automatically certain packages
I removed Nagios with sudo apt-get remove --purge nagios3-core nagios3-common and sudo apt-get autoremove but when I use Aptitude to install something else, It automatically installs Nagios again.
...
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Errors running apt-get update and apt-get install mysql-server
Since yesterday I've been trying to run
apt-get update
unsuccessfully in Ubuntu instances I am creating on the EC2.
In specific I've been getting these errors:
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com ...
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2answers
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list all suggested packages for currently installed packages
Every time I install a package:
sudo apt-get install <pkg>
apt-get displays a list of suggested packages. I have simply ignored these so far, but some of these suggestions are actually good ...
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I'm having a multi-arch problem. How can I fix it?
Running the following commands give me the same abrupt ending, any ideas? 1.
sudo apt-get -f install -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... ...
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Compiled package and dependency management
I have a package that depends on squid 3.2. I want to replace squid 3.2 with source compiled version of squid 3.3 beta (which is not available in repository). When I remove squid 3.2, the depending ...
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1answer
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Wine has dependency issues
Okay, I like to use Aptitude for most of my program installation, due to its exceptional handling of dependencies (it's very diligent about removing unused libraries.)
Unfortunately, it appears not ...
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configure says I don't have lib, but aptitude says I do
I've just run a configure script which alerts me:
checking for gcry_control in -lgcrypt... no
configure: error: libgcrypt not found. Install libgcrypt or use --disable-libgcrypt. Have a nice day.
...
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1answer
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What is aptitude's extended state information
I have both apt-get and aptitude installed on my system. When I am performing any operation using aptitude, I see Reading extended state information and Writing extended state information. These ...
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How would I see a list of current packages and compare them to the ones being upgraded?
I'm running 12.10 on a server and I have a list of packages that need to be upgraded. However I can run the command sudo aptitude to see what they are and what their about which is fine. My question ...
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Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages
After upgrading from 10.04 to 12.04 I am trying to install different packages.
For instance ia32-libs and skype (4.0).
When trying to install these, I am getting the 'Unable to correct problems, you ...
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2answers
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problem with update
when I try to update and type:
sudo apt-get update
I get this error
E: Problem executing scripts APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success 'test -x /usr/bin/apt-show-versions || exit 0 ; apt-show-versions ...
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I Can't Install or Remove Any Application
when i try to install or remove an application via either software center or apt-get install they both fail and give some debconf errors below is the log please help.Sorry some of the text is not ...
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Ubuntu 12.04.1 Server error on apt-get update? [closed]
I get errors when using sudo apt-get update or installing packages.
Err http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com precise InRelease
Err http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security InRelease
Err ...
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How to list installed packages in apt that are not backed by a repository?
I suppose you could build a list of all packages that would be installed if you started with an empty apt database and installed everything that deborphan -a currently tells you. Then compare that ...
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sudo aptitude full-upgrade = 420 conflicts
I think the following will explain my concern for not wanting to choose Y.
oshirowanen@desktop:~$ sudo aptitude full-upgrade
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libavcodec53{a} ...
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I can't add PPA repository behind the proxy
I'm trying to add the ppa repository (as a root) with the following command:
export HTTP_PROXY="http://firstname.surname@xxx.com:my_pass@165.x.x.232:8080"
add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
...
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How to list programms with their dependency complete size
How to list by size installed packages with their dependecies with complete size and date?
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Package dbus is not configured yet
While attempting to upgrade (sudo apt-get upgrade) Ubuntu 12.04, I had a pair of packages that would throw the following apt-get install errors for the dbus dependency:
dpkg: error processing dbus ...
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2answers
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Should I use aptitude or apt-get to upgrade my server?
Installed new Ubuntu Server 12.04 on Windows Azure
After apt-get upgrade, console shows:
The following packages have been kept back:
linux-image-extra-virtual linux-image-virtual linux-tools ...
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1answer
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Wrong autocompletion with sudo apt-get
Does anybody know why if I type:
apt-get upg<TAB>
I get:
apt-get upgrade
but if I type:
sudo apt-get upg<TAB>
I get:
sudo apt-get upgrade-from-grub-legacy
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Package dependency errors : libc [closed]
I was trying to install kde-full when the libc had some unmet dependencies error. When saying
sudo apt-get install kde-full
the terminal has this in the end
libc6 : Depends: libc-bin (= ...
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packages been kept back
I tried both aptitude -y safe-upgrade and apt-get upgrade -f but in both cases, I get:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following ...
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2answers
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Installing Wine with aptitude
I'm trying to install Wine on Ubuntu Precise. I'm used to using aptitude for package management, so I tried to use that to install Wine. When I do that, I'm told I have to resolve dependencies that ...
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Why do I have to run aptitude update twice to install Ruby?
Summary. I have a fresh EC2 Precise 64-bit instance (ami-82fa58eb). After launching the instance, I want to install ruby1.9.1 (among others).
This doesn't work:
aptitude update &&
apt-get -o ...
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Aptitude not working after sources.list -messup? [closed]
I used this site here to generate my sources list here but errs here. Why does my aptitude not work?
I am using Debian squeeze but I think the same or similar logic is in Ubuntu.
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sudo aptitude upgrade error
i get the following error when trying to upgrade
media@media:~$ sudo aptitude upgrade
Resolving dependencies...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
...
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1answer
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Why does “tasksel” give an “aptitude failed” error?
The problem started in the following way. I was using tasksel from the terminal menu that it shows when I simply do sudo tasksel. I select Lamp Server from the list and started to install all packages ...
