Aptitude is a quite powerful package manager leveraging CLI and an ncurses-style interface.
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What is the difference between dpkg and aptitude/apt-get?
When installing a software via 'dpkg -i packageA.deb', will the dependencies required by packageA be downloaded and installed automatically? How is this different from using apt-get or aptitude?
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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 ...
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Cannot install packages. “Warning: untrusted versions…” plus “method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/http could not be found”
Judging from Internet forums, these errors appear to be popular when attempting to install packages:
steve:~$ sudo aptitude install examplepackage
The following NEW packages will be installed:
...
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Why would the aptitude binary be missing if its package is installed?
Yesterday I upgraded a laptop from Kubuntu 9.04 (Lucid) to 9.10 (Karmic). Then afterwards I tried to install some software
$ sudo aptitude install dont-remember-what-it-was
and I get
sudo: ...
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0answers
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Installing 32 bit libraries fails [duplicate]
I am trying to install 32-bit libraries on Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit as I've done many times before on Ubuntu 12.04 and Debian 6/7. There seems to be a problem with some packages. This is what I get when I ...
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How to remove warnings like `Unknown media type …`
Each time apt-get tries to process triggers for shared-mime-info, it reports warnings like:
...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info...
Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
Unknown media type in ...
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1answer
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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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Restoring all data and dependencies from dpkg --set-selections '*'
So I can run on one machine:
dpkg --get-selections '*' > selection.txt
On another machine:
dpkg --set-selections < selection.txt
... followed by either of the following:
aptitude install
...
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4answers
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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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1answer
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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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0answers
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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How can I remove the Translation entries in apt?
This is the output of aptitude update:
Ign http://archive.canonical.com natty InRelease
Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com natty InRelease
Ign http://dl.google.com stable InRelease
Ign ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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0answers
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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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0answers
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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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1answer
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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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0answers
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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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9answers
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What's the difference between package managers?
I know Ubuntu/Kubuntu has several programs that can be used to install packages, such as apt-get, aptitude, and synaptic (and perhaps others). What are the differences between them, and which one is ...
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How to see packages installed on a given date using aptitude
Does anyone know if there's an easy way to find a list of packages installed, sorted by date, when using aptitude (or apt-get)?
I was installing a bunch of packages to try something new, and it ...
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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install package with apt-get and remove with aptitude?
Anything wrong with this practice? would it work?
If I install package with apt-get and remove with aptitude?
In addition, I recently removed webmin. Does apt-get --purge remove - delete also ...
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votes
1answer
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whats the difference between tasksel and normal methods
Recently I have gone through tasksel command usage because of LAMP server setup. Why can't I use apt-get or aptitude there? Why does the Ubuntu wiki page suggest to do it with tasksel only. Is there ...
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0answers
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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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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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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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0answers
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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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2answers
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Possible problems in mixed use of apt-get, aptitude and synaptic
Even though aptitude and synaptic are both front-end to the APT (and I myself
stick only with apt-get), peculiarities in each of the available dpkg/APT
frontends seem to cause problems and confusions ...
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votes
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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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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1answer
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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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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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vote
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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How to let `dpkg -i` install dependencies for me?
Say, I have foo-1.2.3.deb which depends on perl and python, however, running command:
dpkg -i ./foo-1.2.3.deb
won't install these dependencies. So I must apt-get install perl python by hand.
How ...
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vote
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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0answers
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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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vote
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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2answers
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ubuntu-restricted-extras wants to remove over 200 packages. Could this harm the system?
Has anybody installed ubuntu-restricted-extras yet? (You need this for example to encode mp3). When I try to install that, it wants to remove the following packages:
# aptitude install ...
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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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1answer
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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 ...
0
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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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0answers
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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.
...
