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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mariadb-server-10.0 mariadb-server installation error. How do I fix?
For some reasons I am unable to install maria db. I did try the following procure but I did not manage to install. I keep getting:
Errors were encountered while processing:
mariadb-server-10.0
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packages installed via Software Center do not show up in menu without reboot
After installing Opera using the Software Center, its icon does not show up in the start menu.
But after I reboot, it does show up in the start menu.
It's really annoying that I have to keep ...
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Packaging to deb : no source format specified in debian/source/format
Am following the tutorial explained here to build a deb file for my own software. The Software itself will be distributed as deb file in our website and so no need to put on PPA or something like that ...
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Building packages on Ubuntu 16.04 for Launchpad
I would like to build and upload to Launchpad a simple package for Ubuntu 16.04. It is just a colour theme; it basically requires the creation of a new folder under /usr/share/themes. The rulesfile ...
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How to install Boost 1.60 on 12.04 LTS?
I am trying to work out how to install Boost 1.60 under Travis CI, which runs Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server Edition 64-bit.
I tried adding the debian-sid repo as an apt source so I could install libboost-...
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How to build -dev package in launchpad?
I am developing small library and I've created appropriate debian package configuration. You can take a look at it at https://github.com/mspanc/vspec.
When I run debuild locally it properly builds ...
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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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How to completely remove evolution including configuration?
I want to remove all of evolution since it's missed up (takes an eternity to load mails, probably need to clean up my gigant gmailbox).
So, I've done sudo apt-get purge evolution , removed my google ...
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How to properly manage PPAs just from the command-line
What are the recommendations for managing other repositories and PPAs without the help of Software and Updates GUI.
How to know if a repository/PPA already, - exist - enabled or - disabled ?
How to ...
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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 can I build PHP5 Dependencies while having MariaDB installed?
I am trying to build php5 dependencies on Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS. Unfortunately I get the following error message.
% sudo apt-get build-dep php5
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree ...
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How to re-install libgcc1:i386 which breaks libgcc1?
So, I went and did something very stupid. I have ubuntu-toolchain-r repository added to repositories which has up to some time ago provided libgcc1:i386 among other things. For a some time now the ...
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How to keep linux-cloud-tools-virtual in sync with my kernel?
The Ubuntu 14.04 package linux-cloud-tools-virtual, used for compatibility with Hyper-V, depends on linux-cloud-tools-3.13.0-44-generic. However, the standard installed kernel is 3.13.0-32, which ...
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apt-file equivalent to search for source files
I find the apt-file utility very comfortable to find the package that delivers a given file. If I wanted to find the package that delivered /bin/bash I would simply type
apt-file find /bin/bash
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How to fix a Failed Package Operation Error?
Launched the software center and I am getting this error:
installArchives() failed: E: Invalid archive signature
E: Internal error, could not locate member control.tar.{gzbz2xzlzma}
E: Prior ...
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Publish a package on Ubuntu Software Center?
Recent, I uploaded a package on MyApps. After uploading finished, I received a notice:
Thank you for submitting a gratis Free Software application through MyApps. At this time we are unable to ...
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gedit 'broken' after update on Ubuntu 13.10
I have upgraded from Ubuntu 12.10 to 13.10. In the meanwhile I have removed the Enthought Python distribution manually because I want to start back on the 'official' packages.
So I removed the python ...
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Looking for unused debs in my Ubuntu
For example, I can extract information about every files of installed packages. Thereafter, I can do find -ls with -mmin & -mtime somehow, I can draw a graph of absolutelly unused packages.
Is ...
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Prevent the installation of a specific kernel version
Having had major problems with kernel 3.11.0-14 (WLAN, desktop login, ALSA crashes) I decided to back out -14, returning to 3.11.0-12.
>>ALL<< problems then disapeared.
Now I want to block ...
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Issue Backporting SQLite 3.8.1 to Ubuntu Precise from Trusty
I'm pretty new to all of the packaging of Ubuntu applications and what not so this may not be the correct place to ask this question or there may be a more appropriate place to re-ask this question. I'...
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unity-music-daemon uses large amount of memory
When I boot my Ubuntu 13.04 up, I noticed that my fans goes crazy and when I had a glanced at System Monitor, I saw that a process called unity-music-daemon is using a large amount of memory and CPU. ...
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is there some sort of all-purpose logging tool I can download as a package?
As in, a tool that will give me easy to read logging information all in one convenient place, divvied up into categories. Logs for say, ssh daemon, user logins/logouts and other activity, installed ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 - how to restart USB interfaces?
How can I restart the USB Interfaces in Ubuntu 12.04 like in FreeBSD? Is there any packages or source codes for Ubuntu?
usbconfig -u 1 -a 2 suspend
usbconfig -u 1 -a 2 resume
usbconfig -...
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I'm having dependency problems with wine and multiarch on 12.04x64. I need a solution
EDIT 3: See bottom, for TL;DR-ish version.
I want to install wine1.5, from the ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa repository. Fair enough right?
(I'm running 12.04 x64 and a custom kernel.)
I added their ...
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How can I update my custom repository?
I created a local repository and I used it in my ubuntu clients.
This repository contains only some packages.
Now I would upgrade these packages.
How can I do it, as there are many packages and ...
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Cannot backup Evolution folders
After using Ubuntu since 5.04 I upgraded to 12.04 5 days ago . Then the .evolution folder showed only an empty Tasks folder.
I need to save my mail folder contents (hundreds of emails) but only get ...
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Why did Ubuntu remove SpiderMonkey package?
I noticed Ubuntu didn't support SpiderMonkey since 10.04. I guess it may have something to do with license. Can You Tell Me The Reason Why?
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How to install azure-cli package from an older Ubuntu release?
I upgraded my Ubuntu to 19.10 Eoan Ermine and I want to install the azure-cli package, but it is currently only available on 19.04.
As in the docs, I'm executing the following command to add the ...
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apt autoremove cannot remove linux-image packages
I seem to have corrupted my apt database and I have no idea how to repair it. It fails on every command that involves linux-image-4.4.0-22-generic and linux-image-extra-4.4.0-22-generic. Here is the ...
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Error while updating my system 16.04 LTS
When I am using following command to update my system, I got an error from dpkg,how to rectify that,
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
linux-signed-image-generic ...
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How can I use Java Mobile Phone's camera as a Webcam?
In windows there is a software called "Mobiola webcam" for use a mobile cam as a webcam . Is there any way for Linux (ubuntu 12.04 LTS) ?
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Switching between installed versions of Imagemagick
I've inherited management of an Ubuntu system running 22.04. I recently upgraded Imagemagick as part of a apt-get upgrade batch, but there was another version of Imagemagick already installed (I'm not ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS fails after an update
I enjoyed Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS, 64-bit desktop, kernel release 5.19.0-50-generic. It worked for a good long while, with zero issues on Dell Vostro 3020 SFF.
Today, the OS suggested that I have a ...
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Error installing imagick: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
in my ubuntu machine I'm trying to install imagick from command line, like this:
sudo apt install imagemagick-6.q16
But I'm getting this error message:
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...
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How to enforce a package dependency instead of an alternative?
I am developing a Debian package for Ubuntu which uses Java 17. We have historically had a runtime dependency on openjdk-17-jre. We have a part of our software that has used JavaFX on Windows and ...
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Error Installing python 3.7 on Ubuntu 23.04
trying to install Python 3.7 in a container with base Ubuntu 23.04. I keep getting the following errors. Here's what I have tried:
RUN apt-get install -y python3.7 python3-pip:
#8 0.788 Package ...
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How to (re)install gnome-control-center, with multiple broken dependencies?
I was unable to open Settings within Ubuntu, or from right-clicking the desktop. Understandably I was missing gnome-control-center, however it turns out I am missing several dependencies, which are ...
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There is no kernel dbgsym package for my Ubuntu 22.04?
I wanted to download the kernel dbgsym package for my Ubuntu 22.04.
Followed the answers to this:
How to install a package that contains Ubuntu kernel debug symbols?
But I still get:
Unable to locate ...
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What does "apt-get install" do (with no arguments)
I have a dockerfile that issues:
apt-get update && \
apt-get install
as one of the last steps before running the program. Im not sure what the install command does with no arguments. I think ...
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Packages no longer available for download
I signed up for Ubuntu Pro and part of the sign up I executed pro security-status
It returned:
3120 packages installed:
2220 packages from Ubuntu Main/Restricted repository
743 packages from ...
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Does snapd provide a way to fix a broken package?
snap stores all of its packages - including core dependencies such as bare and core as well as every software package as single SquashFS .snap files and then mounts these files (usually in /snap/ ...
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Packaging New Software on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
My goal is to learn the correct and current process for packaging software on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. I am following the Packaging guide for Ubuntu.
The documentation section "Starting a Package" (...
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Cannot import python packages after update to ubuntu 22.04
I had Ubuntu 20.04 which I recently updated to Ubuntu 22.04. I had installed many packages such as numpy, pandas, torch, etc on Ubuntu 20.04. However, after the update, it seems that none of the ...
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qt5-default installation error in ubuntu 22.04
Error: Package 'qt5-default' has no installation candidate
I am trying to install ns3.27 on my ubuntu 20.04. meanwhile I am not able to install this package. I tried all the avaialable answers from ...
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Why libudev version ubuntu3.1 doesn't exist?
Recently (about a week ago) I installed Kubuntu 22.04 to my both machines (laptop and pc).
Everything went fine till I noticed that I need to compile software and I cannot find libudev-dev package, ...
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Installation errors after upgrading to 22.04
I get the following errors after upgrading:
sudo apt --fix-broken install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Correcting ...
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Firefox creating problem in update
I see below error when I upgraded from ubuntu 21.10 to ubuntu 22.04 LTS. I see a constant icon on notification area reminging me of something went wrong while update. When I try to update (as it ask) ...
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apt-get ignore-missing does not work
I'm testing the ignore-missing option with apt-get, but it does not actually work:
# apt install -y --ignore-missing xfce4-terminal amule
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading ...
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How to fix seemingly missing packages in Ubuntu Software / GNOME Software?
On Ubuntu 22.04, when trying to remove software from Ubuntu Software Center or GNOME Software I get in almost any cases an error saying "no packages to remove". Removing those packages using ...
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Unable to find source package for linux-image-5.13.0-30-generic
I tried to install kernel for the first time by using BuildYourOwnKernel Guide.
To download some packages I have run this command:
sudo apt-get build-dep linux linux-image-$(uname -r)
Reading package ...
