Questions about the management of packages, in particular the `dpkg` system.
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TexLive can't find wrapfig.sty while package is installed
I am currently trying to create a report with LaTex. I have installed the Ubuntu packages texlive and texlive-latex-extra.
When I try to compile my document I get the error:
! LaTeX Error: File ...
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How do I remove .deb files of UNINSTALLED PACKAGES from the apt cache? [duplicate]
I am an Ubuntu newbie. I have just installed Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit on my machine. And from the very start I like the experience Ubuntu is giving me.
I have learned some basic tasks like installing and ...
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/usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check returns wrong information; also affects motd
My question is related to Ubuntu tells me I have packages to upgrade when I don't, which pertains to Ubuntu 10.04. But my problem is with Ubuntu 12.04.2LTS (and the solutions mentioned for 10.04 ...
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How to install Wine on an Ubuntu Live USB?
I have installed Ubuntu on my USB and now I am trying to install Wine to allow me to run Windows executable files. I have tried to install Wine through Muon Package Manager but it's showing this ...
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Broken emacs installation
First of all, I am really sorry about behaving like an over smart. But hope you will be able to help me under the circumstance I am right now.
I was having some difficulty with emacs in my Ubuntu ...
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Issues opening everything
I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04. I had issues opening Skype. I looked at a few tutorials that I found from Google searches to no avail.
I figured it may just be an issue and went to try and update ...
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How to install apt-get package manager [closed]
I am booting Ubuntu via VirtualBox. PostgreSQL 8.0 is already installed in the disk image I am using. Now I want to upgrade the PostgreSQL database to a higher version.
I tried using:
apt-get upgrade
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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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E:Malformed Line 61 [duplicate]
Hello I am new to Linux (Only installed today).
I have an issue though which is "This is a serious problem. Try again later. If this problem appears again, please report an error to the developers."
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will apt-get autoremove break other dependencies?
I want to use apt-get autoremove to remove liba for instance, but I'm not sure whether it is smart enough to preserve other dependencies. For instance, if liba depends on libb, while libc also depends ...
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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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apt-get update problem when updating a reprepro repository
i have made a repository using reprepro on my Ubuntu 13.04, i uploaded this repo to sourceforge.net , i can download packages from it and i can update it, put after adding the repository to my ...
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Updating problem[Broken package]
I am not able to update software by package manager and also by terminal it show the following message:
Error:Bokencount>0
Well i tried package manager so it says me to fix broken package first ...
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Should I install via alien or just convert and then use dpkg?
The question is simple (maybe too simple):
what does alien do when with the -i option? Does it use dpkg to install the package?
dpkg (or apt-get) manages packages, tracks when, where and how they are ...
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install/remove list of packages from command line with apt-get
I'm writing a Makefile for our team to be able to set up a local environment with all of the software they need to install packages, etc so that they can develop quickly without having to figure out ...
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Error in downloading Packages e.g. VLC media player
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04, but when i tried to install VLC media player from Ubuntu software center some cache update occured(as far as i could remember) but i could not install it because it took ...
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dpkg: error processing linux-image-3.5.0-28-generic
I have Ubuntu Server 12.04.2 LTS installed on a server. After I run
apt-get update & apt-get upgrade & apt-get dist-upgrade
My kernel version has been changed to ...
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Mono experimantal packages and apt-get
I have a slight problem trying to get the mono experimental 3.0.6 installed on ubuntu. I am quite unexperienced with ubuntu and apt-get so bear with me please. I come from this link: ...
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Unable to install package in ubuntu from command line
I am using ubuntu 12 i am unable to install software from unix or from linux i am getting following error
reiki@reiki ~ $ sudo apt-get install preload
[sudo] password for reiki:
Reading package ...
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Stuck in the middle of any installation [Quantal]
Probably, this kind of question is pretty common on the board.
I searched for my symptoms on the web but I can't figure out anything that works.
Hope someone can get me out of this rabbit hole.
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12.04 64-bit how to solve, pcscd : Depends: libccid (>= 1.4.1~) but it is not going to be installed or pcsc-ifd-handler?
I need to install a package but its failing in 12.04 64 -bit.
root@sun-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M:/var/tmp# apt-get install pcscd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading ...
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Do I need linux-libc-dev and libc6-dev?
I removed the stock 3.8.0-19-generic kernel (and meta packages for the stock ubuntu kernel) and installed the 3.9 mainline kernel, do I need these 2 packages or can I remove them?
~$ apt-cache policy ...
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The && concatenator stopped working when executing “sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade”. ¿Why is that happening?
Problems with && concatenator. It stopped concatenating.
I ran:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:igorgomes/ppa
sudo aptitude update
The aptitude update command began generating a screen output ...
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apport package hook for 3rd-party package not being called
I have a proprietary package, installed via a .deb file. The package provides an upstart script which uses the respawn stanza - i.e. the executable gets restarted when it is killed, even with a ...
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Why does `apt-get install python-` remove everything? [duplicate]
Have a look at the output of this simulated apt-get:
$ apt-get -s install python-
NOTE: This is only a simulation!
apt-get needs root privileges for real execution.
Keep also in mind that ...
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synaptic works then hangs sporadically - force quit not clean
I prefer synaptic over alternative ubuntu package install interfaces, yet it hangs frequently, force quit is not clean. This is true for 12.10 and 13.04, even on new clean OS installs. Suggestions ...
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Is it safe to downgrade libgl1-mesa-glx?
I am trying to install qt-sdk but get the following error:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
qt-sdk : Depends: libqt4-opengl-dev but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to ...
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Package Manager/Update Problem
I recently downloaded Virtualbox version 4.2.12, and I clicked the .deb file, which brought up the Ubuntu Software Center. I clicked upgrade as I had a previous version installed, and it did it ...
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Obsolete packages vs. orphaned packages
What is the difference between obsolete and orphaned packages? More specifically, why does deborphan produce this:
dave@ubuntu:~$ deborphan
libbind9-80
libllvm3.1
libgrail5
libpython3.2
libsvga1
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Error with installation of programs
I'm using 10.04 and getting an error trying to install new software:
The previous installation hasn't been completed.
The installation could have failed because of an error in the corresponding ...
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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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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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How do I get Glibc >= 2.16.0?
I know there are already built packages for Pidgin. I need to build Pidgin so I can build plug-ins.
I need Glibc >= 2.16.0. Unfortunately, I get stuck in an endless dependency loop. I need ...
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How do I use rapt-file?
Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
I'm trying to find out what dependencies package gnucash 1:2.4.10-1 has as I'm investigating what would be involved in updating the Ubuntu package to the latest version of gnucash.
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Problem installing i-mscp [duplicate]
I have a problem on my Ubuntu...When I try to install i-mscp I get this error:
Reading package lists... Done
W: Duplicate sources.list entry ro.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/multiverse i386 ...
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Why is the library's linker name only in the -dev package?
Take a package like sqlite3:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/i386/libsqlite3-0/filelist
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/i386/libsqlite3-dev/filelist
Note that the linker name ...
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Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' doesn't work [duplicate]
What could I do to solve these problems? It happened when I canceled software upgrade on my Ubuntu Linux.
apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state ...
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Install a package manager without package manager
I'm doing some work on a really, really minimalistic Debian dist and noticed that there is no package manager on it.
Can anyone tell me how I can fix this? There is no GUI but I have a Internet ...
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Dependency error while installing cinnamon
I get following error while installing Cinnamon
sudo apt-get install cinnamon
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be ...
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How to fix missing dependency
I was trying to install ruby inbetween net was disconnected so unable to install all dependency now I unable to run ruby because missing dependency. also I am unable to reinstall this application ...
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How do I uninstall Adobe Reader? [duplicate]
I have recently downloaded Adobe Reader for Linux from their website and run it using dpkg -i ...... I actually downloaded i386 version and my laptop is 64-bit. It then gave an error as:
package ...
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Can't install lib64expat1
wani@tester:~/exiv2-trunk/trunk/build$ uname -a
Linux tester 3.5.0-17-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 9 19:31:23 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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Cannot get OpenGL to install
When I try to run an example application it says I am missing
a file that is found in OpenGL.
I found information online and tried to install OpenGL with the following command:
sudo apt-get install ...
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How do I trigger a script to re-run every time there is a kernel upgrade?
Say, for example, I have a custom kernel module.
Is there a way to trigger a rebuild on every kernel upgrade in a generic way such that I can perform an arbitrary task (recompile the kernel module) ...
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Maintaining older system packages [duplicate]
I am having a desktop that runs ubuntu 8.10 and a laptop that(alongwith other distros) runs ubuntu 10.10.
Since the repositories for both do not exist anymore, fetching anything using apt-get fails on ...
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Questions about architecture
So, I've been trying to learn as much as I can about linux operating systems, and something is currently confusing me.
uname -a
Linux L655 3.5.0-27-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Mon Mar 25 19:58:17 UTC ...
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How do I not resolve unmet dependencies?
I followed the answer to How do I install gedit without Zeitgeist? and installed gedit without zeitgeist (in fact, zeitgeist is completely removed). gedit runs happily without zeitgeist.
Now I can't ...
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Why older version of package repositories of Ubuntu don't get updated?
Suppose my Ubuntu version is Natty and I want to install the latest nodejs using apt-get. However, the latest nodejs is only available in the package repository of Quantal.(see ...
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Errors when running apt-get update?
W: Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/dists/raring/Release.gpg Something wicked happened resolving 'dl.google.com:http' (-11 - System error)
W: Failed to fetch ...
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Inconsistency detected ny ld.so? Bad upgrade? Help?
A few days ago I installed Minecraft on my machine(xubuntu 12.10) and everything worked smoothly
Today I did an apt-get upgrade and launched Minecraft and I got this error
Inconsistency detected by ...
