Questions tagged [package-management]
Questions about the management of software packages, in particular the APT and dpkg systems. Use this tag for general questions about package management, and also for questions that cover or compare different packaging systems. For specific package tools, use their own specific tag (like apt, dpkg, snap etc.).
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Trying to resolve PPA issues with libvlccore9 that rendered package management inoperable
Because PPA's don't have an actual bug tracker and they're pretty badly maintained, I figure I would just ask how to fix this here.
The package libvlccore9 in the vlc-master PPA is trying to install /...
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Unable to fix unmet dependencies
I installed (not successfully) chrome 32-bit and didn't know that my OS type was 64-bit. I tried to fix it with this command sudo apt-get -f install but there was an error.
Every time I install a ...
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Package dependency problem (offline install of wireless drivers)
I have a friend wanting to install Ubuntu 10.10 as a dual-boot with Windows through Wubi. Unfortunately, he has a wireless card with a Broadcom chipset, and needs to install the drivers. There is no ...
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Mysql-common cannot be uninstalled
I'm trying to completely uninstall mysql to reinstall it later, after uninstalling all mysql-related packages, mysql-common seems to remain in a broken state.
$ sudo dpkg -l | grep mysql
pc mysql-...
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Package dependency on two PPA
I have a package (fcl) in my PPA in my launchpad PPA and it depends on another package (libccd) which is in another PPA ppa:imnmfotmal/libccd. fcl has both build and run dependency in libccd.
So i ...
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How to get gvedit (GVEdit Graph File Editor) for Ubuntu?
There is a link on official GraphViz documentation page to the man-page of gvedit utility:
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gvedit − simple graph editor and viewer
But what is interesting - this utility is not included in ...
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How to install Estru3D - Structural Analysis Software?
I had problems installing Estru3D. It requires Gambas3 to be installed as a prerequisite. But it doesn't work with the newest Gambas3 installed in Ubuntu 16.04.
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Limit recursion in apt-get install --install-suggests
Recently I tried to install a package and it's suggests by using
apt-get install tuxguitar --install-suggests
although this worked, there was far more installed than I bargained for. A total of ...
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Unable to repair packages in Ubuntu Software Center
When I open up the Software Center it gives me, "Items cannot be installed or removed until package catalog is repaired". Can someone help me?
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Why do I have Wayland packages installed although my system is not using Wayland?
I am using Ubuntu MATE 17.10. The release notes never mentioned anything about Wayland, and I've always assumed this system was using the Xorg display server.
However, today I ran the usual
sudo apt ...
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Cannot remove apt package (unmet dependencies)
Problem description
It all started when I tried to install texlive 2016 following this post. I added a PPA as follows:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/texlive
and then installed texlive-full. ...
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files list file for package 'libgslcblas0:amd64' is missing final newline
hello so I keep getting this error every time i try to install any packages with apt
for example i did apt install npm to get npm but i gave me this error files list file for package 'libgslcblas0:...
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installing "ia32-libs" problem - Ubuntu 12.10 x64
I'm trying to install ia32-libs and i tried nearly all commands to install this package but always i got an error. Here is what i've tried so far;
sudo apt-get install ia32libs
orkun@ubuntu:~$ sudo ...
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How can I correctly install qt5?
I'm trying to upgrade from qt4 to qt5. I was following a guide and it appears I have managed to install qt5. As seen here...
daveomcd@ubuntu:~/Documents/rails_projects/bane$ dpkg -l qt5-qmake
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apt-get update errors
I have a vServer and every time then I try to make apt-get update this Errors will be come in the end but why? How I can fix that?
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package php-math-...
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Can't install anything anymore, unmet dependencies for linux-image-
Whenever I try to install anything I get the following message:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f ...
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Not able to install g++ in ubuntu 13.10 because of broken packages
When I try to install g++ in my machine I am getting the following message.
support:/$ sudo apt-get install g++
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information....
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Apt not installing most known packages
I have installed a fresh Ubuntu 14.04.03 and I am running into a problem I have never had before.
First thing I did when logging into the new install was apt-get update and upgrade. Then I wanted to ...
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Synaptic Manager does not display Descriptions of Packages
I have always used Synaptic, since upgrading to 16 it now longer displays any information in the right side field: no package names, no descriptions, no installed versions, nothing?
I have changed the ...
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Problem while installing vlc player
I can't install vlc player on my Ubuntu(14.04).
I have read this and try to run the commands, but while I run this command:
sudo apt-get install vlc
I got something like this:
Reading package ...
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What is the best way to build a package that targets a single Ubuntu release only?
At the moment I build and package our software for Ubuntu 14.04 aka 'trusty' via dpkg-buildpackage. I get a .deb package that can be installed on Ubuntu 14.04 but also on other Ubuntu releases e.g. 12....
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sudo add-apt-repository throws an exception
I'm running ubuntu 14.10 on VMware player at my office.
Whenever I try to add a repository, I get this exception.
root@ubuntu:~# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rvm/smplayer
Traceback (most recent call ...
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"ibus-qt4" package missing from disco packages
I tried to install avro. But it depends on ibus-qt4. When I searched, it is not in Disco packages. How can I install the package?
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E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages while installing libgl1-mesa-dev for qt
I ran sudo apt install libgl1-mesa-dev and received the error message:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libgl1-mesa-dev : Depends: mesa-common-dev (= 11.2.0-1ubuntu2) but it is not ...
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Do all updates, even kernel, take affect without rebooting
I use 11.04.
When I upgrade a package, it shows a message similar to this :
Unpacking replacement libkrb5support0 ...
Preparing to replace libgssrpc4 1.8.3+dfsg-5ubuntu2.2 (using .../...
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Why can't I log in after unistalling Python 2.7 and installing Python 3?
I uninstalled the Python 2.7 package to try and upgrade to Python 3. I uninstalled Python 2.7, and noticed some of my launcher items were completely gone. At this point I had installed Python 3. Now ...
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Error installing tex-common on 16.04 LTS
Attempting to install tex-common on Ubuntu 16.04.
apt-get update
apt-get install tex-common
Fails, with /usr/sbin/update-updmap: line 235: bin/mkdir: No such file or directory
Reading package lists....
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Install a specific version version not listed using madison
I'm trying to install a specific version of CrateDB, for example:
$sudo apt-get -s install crate=2.1.8-1~wheezy
but this package is not found.
Running 'apt-cache madison' only shows the latest ...
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Packages are broken with unmet dependencies - cannot install fglrx
I'm new to Ubuntu and trying to survive, but, I can't figure this one out - hopefully it's easy!
Ubuntu Software Center says: New software can't be installed, because there is a problem with the ...
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How to run XnView MP Version 0.83 on Xubuntu 16.10?
I just installed XnView MP version 0.83 from official site Linux DEB 64bit package. But the program cannot start. The error is the following:
/opt/XnView/XnView: error while loading shared libraries: ...
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Unable to re-install VLC after a partial upgrade (12.04) due to broken packages
I did a partial upgrade early this morning and followed all the steps trustingly because it usually doesn't cause problems after until now.
VLC was unexpectedly removed without my knowing. I tried to ...
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how to package my git repo and publish to my launchpad ppa
I have GitHub repo named logger. Its a C++ library. What I am doing to package and publish to my launchpad ppa is
cd
rm -Rf Packages2
mkdir Packages2
cp -R workspace/logger/ Packages2/logger-1.0
cd ...
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Ignoring specific unmet dependencies with aptitude?
This is my situation: I've installed a program called ipe "forcably" through a deb package; the reason for this is that ipe depends on texlive-latex-base, however, I already maintain a separate ...
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What Happened to The Latex Symbols In the Libreoffice-Texmaths Equation Editor?
I recently purged Libreoffice because it was buggy.
I then reinstalled the latest version from apt and now it's missing the symbols above the equation editor.
Here is the current Texmaths equation ...
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How to save applications for re-install or upgrade?
I keep experimenting with my Ubuntu so I have to reinstall it sometimes.
I just wanted to know whether I can create another partition only for my installed application(from software center) so that I ...
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Problems installing pandas
I am trying to install pandas on Ubuntu 14.04. I seem to have a problem with dependencies, but I haven't been able to install them. I am trying to install pandas via pip as follows:
vroni@zargedu4:~$ ...
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Samba won't install because of broken packages
I am running Ubuntu Server 14.04.4 and I didn't install Samba with the original OS setup. I would like to install it now, but I keep getting a error about broken packages. It appears that the main ...
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Accidentally deleted /usr/bin/dpkg
When trying to deal with an error I accidentally deleted the /usr/bin/dpkg file and now I can't install packages anymore.
I'm still pretty new to linux so I'm not sure what I'm doing. Please help.
I ...
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Which package is pango that is needed to compile Qemu with --enable-gtk enabled?
I'm compiling Qemu with --enable-gtk enabled. .configure gives me the following error messages:
Run-time dependency gtk+-3.0 found: NO
../meson.build:1042:2: ERROR: Could not generate cargs for gtk+-...
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I have a round red icon with a minus in it on the top of the screen
I recently faced that error that when I click on that icon it says
I tried to remove wine through the terminal since I don't need it anymore and that's what it says
I wrote configure wine because ...
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Install python packages for specific python version
I understand that in Ubuntu 14.04, you have access to both python 2.7.6 and python 3.4.0. When getting python packages through the command line, how do I make sure that I am installing packages meant ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 apt-get doesn't provide conky-all from Ubuntu 14.04
When upgrading from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 my Conky scripts were automatically converted from Conky 1.9 format to new Conky 1.10 format but they were broken and won't run under Conky 1.10. So I ...
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Risk of continuing to use kernel 5.4.0-56-generic that was removed from the repositories on 12-9-2020?
On 12-2-2020 my computers received an update which included a new linux-generic-hwe-18.04 version 5.4.0.56.62~18.04.50. This pulled in kernel 4.5.0-56.
On 12-9-2020 this version was deleted from the ...
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Metadata and appstream Error while Updating
I am getting an error while updating as a root. After Update log below error was shown in terminal.
AppStream system cache was updated, but problems were found: Metadata files have errors: /var/...
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dpkg: error: unable to create new file '/var/lib/dpkg/info/format-new': No such file or directory
When I try to sudo apt-get upgrade I get:
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: error: unable to create new file '/var/lib/dpkg/info/format-new': No such file or directory
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg ...
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Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution)
After running apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade, it seems my install is broken.
root@l1k:/home/kali# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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Broken package error after updating
I updated my system using the Update Manager and now I am getting a "Broken Package" error.
I went into Synaptic Package Manager and clicked on Fix Broken Packages but then I got this error:
E: /var/...
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Problem with gnome-shell-extensions-user-theme [duplicate]
I'm trying to install themes with gnome tweak, and I need to install gnome-shell-extensions-user-theme because otherwise I cannot see the shell extensions tab. However, I cannot install shell ...
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Separate /var partition is full due to apt archives and snaps
For my last Ubuntu 18.04 installation I used different partitions for /home, /var, /root etc. I made each partition greater than recommended on the Ubuntu site. Everything is fine except for the /var ...
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I am getting an error " failed to fetch...." forbidden IP
I am getting this error when attempting to install software, or upgrade my system after a sudo-apt-get update. I have searched it, and many say it happens when your dist. is at its "end of life", but ...
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