Questions related to dpkg, the system that powers most software installs. (Note: apt-get is a very similar tag.)
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apt-hell broken dependancies for mysql server
'devillj@bbj-EP45-UD3R:/var/log/mysql$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting ...
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apt-get update fails to configure linux-image-3.2.0-43-generic
When I recently tried to use apt-get upgrade to install the most recent updates, the process failed while configuring linux-image-3.2.0-43-generic. I can not remove / purge the package, and can not ...
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E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) on virtualbox
Hi I've encountered the dpkg error code(1) problem, it seems a common problem, but I've tried
sudo dpkg -r ubuntu
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get purge
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -r
None of ...
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dpkg error when installing linux
After running:
sudo apt-get -f install
or
sudo apt-get install linux
this error appears:
dpkg: error processing linux-generic (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: ...
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dpkg error unfixable
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 . Gnome desktop Unity. Once I tried to install Ubuntu KDE
desktop. After installing the system told me that Ubuntu 4.0 KDE you have installed is third party so there was a ...
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How to resolve dependency conflict (perl conflicts with libxml-sax-perl)?
I am trying to install a package called libxml-simple-perl, but it depends on libxml-sax-perl, I have installed other dependencies without issues, but this one below is giving me a lot of trouble, and ...
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How to install gnopfract4d on Ubuntu 13.04 64 bit
How to install gnofract4d.deb file on 13.04 64bit. Here is error messages:
sudo dpkg -i gnofract4d_3.14.1_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package gnofract4d.
(Reading database ... 234826 ...
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Is there any YUM to APT-GET tool?
I have a big source code where it wants to install everything where shown of YUM (Fedora, CentOS, Red hat package manager).
Example:
$ yum install bzip2 cpio curl curl-devel fileutils gettext-devel ...
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Problem with apt-get update and dpkg/status
First i got some problems with /var/lib/dpkg/status. I found a solution to remove this file and run apt-get update. Removing this file worked well but after running update i always got this ...
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Nautilus doesn't work; update doesn't work
I'm running 12.04. This morning nautilus stopped working. Double clicking on the Home folder gets the flashing going, but nothing else. I did some searching around and it was suggested to reinstall ...
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Packaging nodejs code, how do I prevent lintian from complaining about ./node_modules?
We ran into this problem while packaging some software written in nodejs.
Because we can't package each and every dependency separately, we need to ship the node_modules/ directory along with the ...
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12.04 unattended-upgrades package has lock on /var/lib/dpkg/lock (cannot sudo apt-get update due to lock) [duplicate]
Calling the sudo apt-get update fails to complete. Fails with:
Fetched 2,212 kB in 13s (162 kB/s)
E: ...
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dpkg won't update - input/output error in indicator-session
I have been having an error trying to update my system. Currently I can't install/remove or update anything with apt-get...
Here is the error I get when running apt-get update
dpkg: unrecoverable ...
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stuck with dpkg
I am using ubuntu 13.04.I was installing a program and it had to download a file from the internet.It was a huge one.I waited for 30 minutes but nothing turned up.so I thought to let go and I closed ...
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How do I upgrade my code from dpkg-deb to dpkg-buildpackage
I inherited code that builds the .DEB using dpkg-deb -b -Zgzip -z9 debian ../$runner
This works well, except that when the end user runs it, it refuses to install missing dependencies. Instead it ...
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Failed linux Kernel Firmware Update
Ok guys this is what I get
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
...
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Term for “Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.” dialogue?
Sometimes I see the following dialog.
Configuration file `/etc/...'
==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
What ...
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Ubuntu 12.0.4 package update failure libssl1.0.0 out of memory error [duplicate]
I am running Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS and yesterday automatic updates failed on what appeared to be the update of openssl package. I have searched around and found several old q&a's to this package ...
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DPKG installation error due to LZMA error
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I had recently upgraded the LMZA library to 4.43 which is the latest version. Ever since it gives error while installing few softwares and upgrades.
It shows the ...
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dpkg stale NFS problem, but no NFS ever used
I've been having issues with updating my computer running 13.04. The problems are also encountered while trying to do any package operation as far as I can tell. The error message is "Stale NFS ...
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Where are flex libraries located?
I find myself with a very weird problem in my hands. I wanted to install both flex (the fast lexical analyzer) and bison, and that's why I ran:
sudo apt-get install bison flex
The installation goes ...
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Upgrading from 12.10 to 13.04 -> dpkg: error processing sudo (--configure)
Here's the deal and reason I'm asking for your help. Last night I went on upgrading my Xubuntu 12.10 installation to 13.04, so at tty1 I run the command
sudo do-release-upgrade
and everything ...
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I'm having dpkg errors
When I try to install something i get this output and I don't know why.
dpkg: error processing language-pack-kde-en (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered ...
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Lost/Deleted dpkg (package manager for Debian). How do I get it back?
OS: Ubuntu 12.04
Accidentally deleted dpkg. Now, packages can't be installed. So, needs an dpkg installer which installs packages.
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I just lost /var/lib/dpkg
I have an empty /var/lib/dpkg and as consequence both apt and dpkg are starting to complain about everything and with every simple task I would like to do with them: there is a way to rebuild that ...
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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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How to install Google Chrome on ubuntu 13.04 [closed]
I am trying to install Google Chrome on Ubuntu 13.04, but it does not install.
Output:
Selecting previously unselected package google-chrome-stable.
(Reading database ... 173123 files and directories ...
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Unity crash during 12.04 to 12.10 upgrade , dpkg --configure -a fails with too many errors : recourse?
Some key combination I pressed during an update from 12.04 to 12.10 ( en-route to 13.04 ..my final objective ) crashed Unity.
I could however start a terminal and I tried the fixes outlined in ...
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How do I install LibreOffice 4.0.2?
After I upgraded to 13.04 I noticed that Libreoffice 4.0.2 wasn't working, at all. When I click its launcher I get the this start up box:
which amounts to no program being opened.
I have ...
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avoid reinstall virtualbox and update to the latest release
Installing virtualbox-extension-pack-4.2.12 to enable USB2.0 controller prompted only to work with the latest release.
But my current version is 4.0.18 on debian wheezy. The latest release of ...
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Unmet Dependencies right after installing VLC
I got the following error after installing VLC on my Quantal 12.10. Checked for libass4
and its already there. Is there anybody encountering this same silly error and willing to resolve..??
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apt authentication failure on self-signed package
I did create a gpg key using "gpg --gen-key", here is the listing:
> gpg --list-keys
/home/<user>/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
--------------------------------
pub 2048R/99EDE0B7 2013-02-05
uid ...
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Unpacking with dpkg incredibly slow
I'm experiencing a huge slow down during any installation with apt or "dpkg --install" whenever the installation comes to the point of unpacking something.
For example, currently the system is ...
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dpkg --configure -a not working
When I try to execute
dpkg --configure -a
I get this message:
Setting up jre (1.7.021-1) ... Error: unpack200 - command could not be
found.
Please refer to the Troubleshooting section of ...
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I get dependency issues with linux-image-pae while upgrading
justsmit1@moodle:~$ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
The following packages will be upgraded:
linux-image-generic-pae
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 ...
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“apt-get -f install” not working
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer ...
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Errors were encountered while processing:libglib2.0-0:i386
Every time i run:
sudo apt-get upgrade
or when i try to:
sudo apt-get install
a program, it gives me this error:
Errors were encountered while processing:
libglib2.0-0:i386
E: Sub-process ...
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Package Error When Upgrading or Installing anything
I've been dealing with this issue for a while now and have serched for weeks but can't find anyway to fix it. I basically can't install any programs or packages from anywhere. Everytime I do it gives ...
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can dpkg obtain the source code of a package?
apt-get source {some-package-name}
gets the source code of that .deb.
Can this be achieved with dpkg instead? Or with software-center?
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cant install a thing! [duplicate]
OK. So when I try to install a something in the terminal, I get:
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
I then try using apt-get -f install, but ...
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interrupted nautilus
i ordered many softwares from ubuntu center then the electricity goes down and when i relaunch my laptop the problem was with Dropbox or nautilus as it wrote
i tried
gsku nautilus
and i deleted ...
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activate custom CFLAGS & CXXFLAGS on dpkg-buildpackage system (for firefox20 build)
i need activate -O3 -march=native -mtune=native options on CFLAGS CXXFLAGS.
now i cant this on dpkg-buildpackage. system using its own settings.
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Why would dpkg not auto-rename .conf files on --unpack on an installed package?
I was testing a few things and was wondering about the difference between --auto-deconfigure and --unpack.
dpkg --auto-deconfigure --install P.deb
If P has a Break field such as:
Break: B
and B ...
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Why can't I update? [closed]
Any time i try to update i get the following error:
installArchives() failed: Could not exec dpkg!
Error in function:
SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (100)
Traceback ...
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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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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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Checking version of package without installing
I am undecided about whether to install the default-jdk java
development package or the tarball from sun. How do I check
the version information in the default-jdk or other package
without actually ...
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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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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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Install same packages from one server on another
I have a legacy Ubuntu Server 12.04 (i386) and a new Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS (AMD64)
How do I use the same list of packages from the legacy server on the AMD64 server?
I tried this:
dpkg ...
