Questions related to dpkg, the system that powers most software installs. (Note: apt-get is a very similar tag.)
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Ouch! Got SIGABRT, dying.. Aborted [Resolved] [closed]
After installing ATI drivers using the "Additional Drivers" from the system settings I rebooted as required by the operating system (Ubuntu 12.04 Unity) and from there (after passing GRUB) I was faced ...
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problem with 'sudo apt-get upgrade'
When I run sudo apt-get upgrade, the following error rises:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
...
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how to package installed packages?
is there anyway to package the installed software on the system?
i mean without going to/var/cache/apt.. and without downloading anything else, can i use a dpkg command to make a packages from all ...
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Apt-get is broken [closed]
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I am having a problem installing anything. Every single apt-get commands returns:
Setting up install-info (4.13a.dfsg.1-8ubuntu2) ...
/usr/sbin/update-info-dir: line ...
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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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Update Manager broken package libxext6 and libxext6:i386 [duplicate]
This problem seems similar to some, but none of the fixes work. When I try to update, it reads/displays the packages, but it will not install. The error message I got in the terminal is:
dpkg: error ...
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OS failed - How-To in LiveUSB Backup Keys, Installed Package List,
My 12.04 Ubuntu (Precise Pangolin) has a boot-time failure and previous kernels are no help. I will not be able to boot into the OS. I have a LiveUSB session (same OS), and want to make an installed ...
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Cannot install google chrome - package cannot be authenticated [duplicate]
I have a puppet setup which adds the google package signing key, the google repo and then tries to install google-chrome-stable. It has been working fine on many servers for the past 6 months until ...
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block from installing network-manager [duplicate]
How can I, for always, block the installation of a package? (in this case: network-manager)
I previously did
echo network-manager hold | dpkg --set-selections
After some update I found that it was ...
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How to install recommend packages from a file (package.deb)?
I have a package.deb and want to install all dependencies (Depends field in debian/control) and all recommend packages (Recommends field in debian/control).
Options considered so far:
Gdebi ...
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“-bash: /usr/bin/: No such file or directory” for almost every command
While trying to solve some package conflicts, mistakenly I ran this command on my Ubuntu-Precise:
sudo dpkg -r --force-all libc6
Consequently in a second all of the packages with a dependency to ...
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How to check a .deb file Installable or not using command line
How can i check a *.deb file is good to install in current system without install it? Is there any way that i can use dpkg or apt-get or other command line tools for this purpose?
Note: I need to do ...
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Update error Xubuntu 13.04
When I try to install or remove items I'm unable to do so due to 3 programs that aren't fully installed. Ive tried removing them and reinstalling but no luck when I tried to configure I got this:-
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Getting dpkg-buildpackage depencency errors when using apt-get install source --compile [closed]
I was playing around with
apt-get install source --compile
And I used audacity:
sudo apt-get install source --compile audacity
However, I am getting a dependency error:
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Equivalent of these commands in the following distros [closed]
These commands:
dpkg -i
apt-get install
apt-get update
apt-get remove
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get purge
in these distros:
Opensuse,
Fedora,
Gentoo,
Arch,
Slackware.
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Script not available after installing package
I'm creating my own repository to host my scripts. I wrote a shell script and wanted to package into a .deb file. I created the DEBIAN directory and the control file inside.
The .deb is created ...
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I encountered a dpkg dependency issue, and how do I resolve this issue?
sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
10 not fully ...
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How to fix dpkg: error processing fusion-icon?
This is what I got after upgrading Ubuntu 12.10 to Ubuntu 13.04:
santos@santos:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree Reading state information... ...
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“Permission denied” error using dpkg-scanpackages and gzip
I'm quite new to Linux. I wanted to set up my own local apt-repository using instructions given here.
However, when i execute the script as:
#! /bin/bash
cd /var/www/debs/i386
dpkg-scanpackages . ...
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After installing KDE desktop only KDE login
I installed KDE via the sudo apt-get install kde-plasm-desktop command (I wanted less packages than installing the Kubuntu-desktop would give me) and now I get the KDE (or is it Kubuntu?) login ...
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Can't change keyboard layout on a VirtualBox
I installed a Django stack from bitnami on VirtualBox, and ran it.
Unfortunately, my keyboard is a french AZERTY, but the Ubuntu 13.04 inside this little box doesn't seem to realize that.
I found ...
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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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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 ...
