Questions tagged [official-repositories]

The official software repositories from Ubuntu, as opposed to PPAs and 3rd-party repositories

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Difference between ports and us.archive

What is the difference between ports.ubuntu.com and us.archive.ubuntu.com? I ask because I already have an apt-mirror for us.archive.ubuntu.com and don't want to add ports.ubuntu.com if it is not ...
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Does the "security" repository provides anything not found in the "updates" repository?

For the limited number of package I looked at (e.g. apache), I found that the package version in the updates repository is always newer than or equal to the version available in the security ...
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Repository on DVDs for Ubuntu likes Debian

Why Ubuntu dont have all repository on dvds likes Debian? I downloaded 10 dvds from debian Wheezy... I'm happy... so I no need internet for install programs on my laptop or my student's netbooks... ...
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Cannot build packages from source using "apt source" and "debuild"

I have a strange problem. I want to build x264 and gpac from source on Ubuntu 18.04 using the official command "apt source", followed by "sudo apt get build-dep" then "debuild&...
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Installation of wine32 in a docker container

I'm trying to get a Windows application to run in a Ubuntu docker container. When installing wine32 I get the following errors (I'm on a Windows 10 PC): E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/...
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Installing mysql client 5.6 on Ubuntu

I am trying to install mysql 5.6 on an Ubuntu 16.04 server. I understand that the packages available for mysql are with version 5.7 but in order to install 5.6 I did the following steps RUN rm -rf /...
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GUI App or Bash command to eliminate anything but official Ubuntu repository packages

I use Ubuntu Studio 20.04.1 LTS (64 bit Linux). I want to know if there is some GUI App and/or a Bash command (command line) to full eliminate any package which is not from the official Ubuntu ...
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LXC container ubuntu 18.04 apt update problem

I use LXC. I have not been able to update for the last 1 week. The errors are as follows: domain name resolution, Ping etc. It works. root@nginx2:~# ping -c 2 google.com PING google.com (172.217.18....
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Why isn't pcre2grep found in the official Ubuntu repositories under the name pcre2grep?

Why isn't pcre2grep found in the official Ubuntu repositories under the name pcre2grep, though pcregrep is found by pcregrep? pcre2grep is currently a part of pcre2-utils Also it would be nice to ...
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Why is there no git-remote-hg package in Ubuntu 18.04?

Ubuntu package search for git-remote-hg shows: Package git-remote-hg xenial (16.04LTS) (vcs): bidirectional bridge between Git and Mercurial [universe] 0.3-1: all disco (19.04) (vcs): ...
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How to submit an application to ubuntu repositories without having to packaging it since i'm not a programmer?

I'm a physical therapist and would like to submit an application created under the GNU General Public License, version 2. It's called SAPO and you can find the executable jar and the source code here. ...
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Reliability of Ubuntu repositories across versions?

If a package is present in the ubuntu repository (the one at archive.ubuntu.com), can I expect that the same package (or later versions of the package) will always be present in the repo in future ...
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Why is my Ubuntu VM not installing updates

There are are old CVEs which Ubuntu has a fix for. For example : https://ubuntu.com/security/cve-2019-18276 I currently have Bash version 4.4.20. If I run apt list --upgradable, I don't see Bash in ...
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Why is WireGuard not in main?

WireGuard is very, very popular and for good reason. Still, Ubuntu keeps it in universe and doesn't seem to have any interest in placing it front and center. Why? It's so strange, it's probably the ...
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How i can install playonlinux

when install POL the message download failed: E:htpp://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 libproxy1-plugin-gsettings amd64 0.4.15ubuntu1.2 isnot (yet) available (403 forbidden [ ip:91....
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It seems that "-updates" repository is enabled during install, but disabled afterwards. How can that be?

I've had similar, strange dependency issues on very default packages (e.g. openssh-server or VLC) when I tried to install them after the first boot after initial fresh system setup. It seems that ...
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Unable to disable proposed updates (developer options)

I'm unable to uncheck "Pre-released updates" from Developer Options in "Software & Updates" application. When I click to uncheck the system asks for my password and after that ...
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Update core libraries ONLY from official repositories

Is there any way of installing core libraries ONLY from official repositories and don't accept those libraries offered in custom repositories if it has a different version than official? Keep in ...
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PlayOnLinux installation scripts never load

I've installed PlayOnLinux from the official Ubuntu package repositories. It mostly works fine but it seems that it's unable to fetch any installation script. . Clicking on Install program results ...
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stellarium ubuntu 16.04

When upgrading to ubuntu 16.04, my stellarium 0.10 was automatically upgraded to 0.14.3. I do not want any of this 3D features (only 1 eye left). Tried to downgrade to 0.10. and 0.12 which apt-get ...
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single photo 2d to 3d reconstruction in ubuntu repository

A while ago, I was doing "man -a --regex 'something_don-t_remember'" and one of the programs, that came up was a cli program for a complete reconstruction of 3D scene from a single photo. In that ...
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Software Sources: Select Best HTTPS Server

I travel to countries I don't trust--a lot. For example, Vietnam, the virus capital of the world. ESPECIALLY in these areas, but also at home in the USA, I want to remove (or reduce) the possibility ...
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New Apache's version in repositories

Does anyone has a time frame for an update in Apache's version for repositories/official-repositories? Ubuntu server is working like a charm and wouldn't like to switch to manual installation for ...
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Installing Daily Build

Now I'm downloading 13.04 daily build ISO. I have Archlinux but I want to switch to something more stable and ubuntu is the best Linux OS imo (not just a group of packages but rly good OS). Well my ...
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