Questions tagged [official-repositories]
The official software repositories from Ubuntu, as opposed to PPAs and 3rd-party repositories
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What's the difference between multiverse, universe, restricted and main?
I've been peeking into the ubuntu respository and I see four folders, multiverse, universe, restricted and main. What do they represent?
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How to use https with apt-get?
Does apt-get use https or any kind of encryption? Is there a way to configure it to use it?
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What is the "proposed" repository?
What exactly does this repository contain and why should a user either stay away from it, or add the repository?
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Why is some software not in the official Ubuntu repositories?
To install some applications, we need to add a repository to the system. Why didn't the creators just put them into the Main or Universe repositories, though those applications have GPL license and ...
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Are security.ubuntu.com updates eventually merged into normal updates?
Upon my observation, seems new packages will first appear in security.ubuntu.com, but if you upgrade later, they will appear in XX.archive.ubuntu.com (depends on your config),
Was that true ?
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Is there a way to find out whether an updated program/package lands in the official Ubuntu release repositories?
If there is a new release/major update of a program (e.g. Rhythmbox 2.97, Skype 4.0 or Gimp 2.8), is there an easy way to tell whether and when they will make it to the current official Ubuntu release ...
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Why do the Repositories not have the latest upstream versions? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why don't the Ubuntu repositories have the latest versions of software?
As a new Ubuntu user, I'm still trying to figure out the software management system. I've noticed a ...
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apt update error: The repository 'http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu saucy Release' does not have a Release file
I run "sudo apt -y update" on my Ubuntu 16.04 server, but I got the following error:
# apt -y update
Reading package lists... Done ...
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How can I find an always updated list of repository mirrors?
How can I find an always updated list of repository mirrors?
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When will PHP 5.6 be in the official Canonical repos?
I imagine it won't up until 14.10 is released, but even if that is the case, could we expect to see it show up in the repos that 14.04 uses?
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Will Skype be removed from the Canonical Partner repository? [closed]
I just learned that Microsoft has taken over Skype.
Will this affect the availability of Skype in the Canonical Partner repository?
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Unable to locate package chntpw
To overwrite a Windows 7 password, one can boot from a Ubuntu LiveCD and run chntpw.
Unfortunately, installing chntpw is not so easy:
$ sudo apt-get install chntpw
E: Unable to locate package chntpw
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What testing is done to make sure no packages in the repos have malware?
How is it ensured that a trusted user can't compile a package with malware and place it in the universe repo.
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Why doesn't archive.ubuntu.com use HTTPS? [duplicate]
I always see instructions for adding the Universe and Multiverse repositories that look something like the following:
sudo add-apt-repository -y "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu $(lsb_release -...
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Is missing cockpit-docker no longer in the 20.04 repository?
I installed Ubuntu server 20.04 into a vm, to see how if I want upgrade my 18.04. I use cockpit for ease of use on my 18.04. Anyways the cockpit-docker deb is missing from the repository. Why is this? ...
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GPG KEYEXPIRED error in when updating repositories [duplicate]
Since yesterday afternoon I'm getting some GPG key expired errors from the official repositories (I checked my sources.list and the only sources are the official ones).
The URL I'm getting the error ...
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What site can I use to generate a custom sources.list?
I've just installed Ubuntu 11.04, after installing 10.10 I found a real useful official site which compiles a /etc/apt/source.list that can be copied and pasted, and a list of the key commands for ...
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Why do we have non-free software in the official repositories?
The Ubuntu wiki describes the "sections" of the official Ubuntu repositories as follows:
Main - Officially supported software.
Restricted - Supported software that
is not available under a ...
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Are apt packages in main and universe ALWAYS guaranteed to be built from source by Ubuntu or Debian mantainers?
I wonder if Canonical (and/or Debian) provide any sort of guarantee that all packages in main and universe repos are always either built from source by themselves, or verified by them (in case of ...
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Shareware in Ubuntu repositories? (RAR)
I thought that all applications in Ubuntu repositories are free, but today I wanted to install rar package and its description says, that this is shareware and I could use it (without registration) ...
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How do I get security updates for restricted/partner packages?
I want to perform just security updates on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, keeping the rest of the system unchanged. I need to do this from the command line, no the GUI update manager. I have implemented the ...
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Why is there no guayadeque in 16.04?
I noticed today that there is no Guayadeque in Ubuntu 16.04. It was there in 15.10.
Such a cool player, I couldn't find it in Ubuntu Xenial repository.
Could anyone point out a reference for Ubuntu ...
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Where are the Ubuntu and Ubuntu One servers located?
I would like to know where the Ubuntu Main repository and Ubuntu One servers are located.
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Which is the timezone of the Ubuntu official distribution sites?
Speaking about the Ubuntu iso images downloadable from the official sites [1,2],
with which timezone are they saved?
Getting some info from host and whois on old-releases.ubuntu.com and releases....
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What is the difference between <suite> and <suite>-security repositories in apt?
I know about the difference between, for example, focal-security, focal-updates and focal-backports.
But /etc/apt/sources.list also has URLs for focal in addition to the others.
This is confusing. Is ...
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Apt trying to fetch versions not available in archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main
I keep getting failed to fetch errors from the primary Ubuntu repository for gcc and related. I have run sudo apt update --fix-missing and sudo apt upgrade and the errors remain the same.
Looking at ...
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Where do I look for the reason for the removal of a package from the Ubuntu repositories
I have seen that when a new Ubuntu version is released, sometimes a particular application that I had used till the previous Ubuntu versions would have been removed from the Ubuntu repositories for ...
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apt update fails after upgrade to 18.04 [closed]
After upgrading from 16.04 to 18.04 I get errors when I run apt-update.
Here's the output:
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [83.2 kB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/...