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How come I cannot install packages?

My ubuntu 12.10 won't allow me to install any online packages. I can go to the software center and install games and stuff no issue. But if I go to a program website it always fails to install every ...
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How do I create a .deb file?

Yes, I know that this question has been asked many times before, but none of the answers really helped. I'd like to package the Minecraft launcher (which has no proprietary code, AFAIK,) into a .deb ...
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DEB installer - Dependency Checks

My question is about dependency checks for the DEB package. Using a third-party install generation tool, I created a .DEB installation package for my application. There are several dependencies that ...
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Installing from Local Dependencies?

I have a folder with all dependencies needed for my program (gimp) in a folder. I don't have internet connection on that System. How can i install Gimp Dependencies from that Folder. Note: All ...
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How apt-get selects from a list of alternative dependencies?

I understand that in the Depends: section of the deb control files, a package may specify alternative dependencies separated by | symbol to satisfy a single dependency. My question is, how does ...
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Can't install package libglib2.0-dev because it depends on some unknown version

I have 10.04.2 LTS and I want to install libglib2.0-dev. So I do: $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade $ sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev Reading package lists... Done Building ...
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How to automatically fetch missing dependencies when installing software from .deb?

I'm trying to install MySQL Workbench on my Ubuntu box (11.04). The website has a Ubuntu .deb available for download (for 10.10 and 10.04 so I chose 10.10). However, sudo dpkg -i ...
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How to remove a deb without removing its dependencies

I would like to install the most recent version of boto, which I do via python setup.py install Yet when I try to remove the old version the following packages also get removed: apt-get remove ...