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The sources of the zend framework package

Where can I find sources that were used to build zend-framework deb package(s)? For most pachages there is a .debian.tar.gz available, but not in this case. Where could I find it?
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flashplugin-installer failed to download additional files

Since an update I get the message that Ubuntu failed to download additional files for flashplugin-installer. I get this message on every startup. Ubuntu proposes to download these files now. But if I ...
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I can't get “apt-get install php5-suhosin” to work

I am running ubuntu 13.04. I cannot get my php website to work because I cannot install php5-suhosin. It said this each time that I have tried apt-get install php5-suhosin: Package php5-suhosin is ...
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Availability of packages on ubuntu LTS

How can i know what packages are available for the Ubuntu LTS. My host says that PHP 5.4 is not supported because it is currently not available on the LTS repo for Ubuntu 12.04. How can I find out if ...
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Download a particular version of a package with apt

I wish to download a particular version of a package. The package in question is ruby1.9.3 which has a Ubuntu native version and a Brightbox PPA version. I have the PPA version installed and that ...
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Remove any third party packages from former libreoffice installation

After recent updates the global menu dissapeared as mentioned in this question (Libre Office shows blank menu and then crashes). I tried to file a bug report by typing out ubuntu-bug libreoffice A ...
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Default package list

Is it possible to find a place where the default package in Ubuntu releases are? By default, I mean all the packages installed when you install Ubuntu.
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meld installation issue

I am trying to install the meld diff viewer on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. When I run sudo apt-get install meld I get the following output: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree ...
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What's the command to install the build-essential package?

What's the command on 32-bit Ubuntu 12.04 for installing the build-essential package and linux headers generic package?
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How to make Revobase package work in R 3.0.1?

I have just moved to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I am having a hard time with R packages and installation. I need to use the Revobase package. I installed it this way: sudo apt-get install revolution-r ...
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I can't remove a malformed line from my sources.list.d?

I tried to follow a poorly explained tutorial on how to install the Opera browser from the terminal. After this failed, I have not been able to get to the software center or the software updater. I ...
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How do I remove missing packages? [duplicate]

At the tail end of the output from sudo apt-get update I get this: Err http://ppa.launchpad.net raring/main amd64 Packages 404 Not Found Err http://ppa.launchpad.net raring/main i386 Packages ...
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Is there any YUM to APT-GET tool?

I have a big source code where it wants to install everything where shown of YUM (Fedora, CentOS, Red hat package manager). Example: $ yum install bzip2 cpio curl curl-devel fileutils gettext-devel ...
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This version of ntop is a minimally supported but OLDER version - please upgrade

ntop crashes: root@dur:~# root@dur:~# root@dur:~# ntop Sat May 18 17:57:45 2013 Initializing gdbm databases Sat May 18 17:57:45 2013 ntop will be started as user nobody Sat May 18 17:57:45 2013 ...
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PPA for Android Studio?

Android Studio was released a few days ago and it's still in early access preview, but I would like to know if there is any PPA I could add to my Ubuntu Raring to automatically keep it updated with ...
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Which package handles changes to connected displays?

I've noticed a couple of questions here citing unhappiness with the way window positions are handled when an display is connected or disconnected. Ubuntu 12.10 - Problems with secondary monitor on ...
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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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install poedit 1.5+ in Ubuntu 12.04

I am running Ubuntu 12.04 which comes with poedit 1.4.6. Is there any way to install poedit 1.5+ without compiling it from source? update: I'd rather not upgrade to 13.04, if at all possible
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Cannot locate Package

Whenever I type an application that could be installed into the terminal it says this is not installed yet, type: sudo apt-get install [application]. When I do this it says cannot locate package. Am I ...
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Ubuntu Chromium browser - how to define zoom percentage via command line launch?

I have Chromium browser running as Ubuntu Desktop, when i launch my system i need to set the Chromium browser zoom percentage to 79%, so that it always remain default. Using command line, how do i ...
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Deleted virtualbox-fuse in 13.04 Raring

I'm using 13.04 Raring amd64 and I need to mount a .vhd file on my ubuntu. I've googled about it and found that virtualbox-fuse package is the answer. But the package was deleted from apt repository. ...
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View TOTAL Disk Space Taken by ALL Installed Packages

Is there a way to view a 'system size'? I want to know how large I should make partitions if I separate my /home from the / (root) partition, but I don't know how much space Ubuntu + every installed ...
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squid-deb-proxy failing to cache packages

On an Ubuntu 12.04 server, with squid-deb-proxy installed, client machines on the network will properly contact the server when installing packages, but squid never caches packages. From ...
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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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Problems with SMB shares: Is it possible to downgrade gvfsd-smb?

Since upgrading to Raring my work using SMB-shares has become painful. Access randomly hangs, processes stop etc. I believe I suffer from this bug. My question is: can I downgrade gvfsd-smb? On ...
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Could not initialize the package information. libtest-prereq-perl (NewVersion2), MergeList

I have the following: An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information. Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error ...
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Where to find older source&binary package versions?

I know that when a package update appears in the repository, its older version disappears from there. But what if new version has a regression? Where can I find previous ones? Note: I don't mean ...
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Missing libqt3-mt in 13.04

I have an application that requires the libqt3-mt package, in particular it's asking for libqt-mt.so.3. It worked OK under Ubuntu 12.04, but I've recently upgraded to 13.04 and the package is missing ...
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How to install a .tar.gz [duplicate]

I'm new to Linux (especially Ubuntu) so sorry but I have absolutely no idea what to do with a .tar.gz file. I'm trying to download flash projector for linux but it's in that file format so I don't ...
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GUI doesn't coming up on ubuntu-12.04 [duplicate]

I am not able to start GUI in my ubuntu. I have installed ubuntu-12.04-desktop-i386 on my Oracle VM virtual box. when it boots up it shows a "running on low graphics" warning. then login credentials ...
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How can i make my .deb package replace a file in the system? [duplicate]

you know that you can't make a .deb package that replaces a file on the system which belong to another package, but i need to create a .deb package for the settings (gnome-settings,kde-settings, in ...
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How can I determine what packages I had installed before a new install?

Situation: want to move from 32-bit to 64-bit environment (taking advantage of >4GB RAM) bought new HDD and installed new OS mounted old HDD as a secondary device Question: How can I determine ...
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How does synaptic package manager work?

I always wondered how the synaptic package work? I always wanted to know it's secrets. Can someone tell me?
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Radio Tray problem Ubuntu 13.04

Installation problem with Radio Tray on ubuntu 13.04 Unpacking radiotray (from .../radiotray_0.7.3_all.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of radiotray: radiotray depends on ...
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Problems installing Nitro Application?

I installed Nitro using apt-get. However, it is dependent of gir1.2-launchpad-integration-3.0 and is missing. How can I get the source code of gir1.2-launchpad-integration-3.0 somehow and install it ...
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Can we list installed packages from a java 7 program?

is it possible to list all installed (official) packages from a Java 7 program ? If so, how could I do it ? Is looking at /usr/bin enough or may I miss some packages ? Regards
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Unmet dependencies (libgssapi-krb5-2: Depends: libkrb5-3 (= 1.10.1 + dfsg-4) but 1:10 + dfsg ~ beta1-2 is installed) [duplicate]

How do I solve this dependency? root @ server :/ # apt-get upgrade Reading package lists ... ready Building dependency tree Reading state information ... ready You might want to run `apt-get-f ...
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I removed Gnome desktop envirment then I am not able to connect to the network

Hello everyone i just removed gnome and installed both kde and xfce, everything is okay but i can't connect to the network, there is no Network manager in both enviroment because i already removed ...
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How to restore original version of config file from package cannot be purged (e.g. base-files) by command?

I found a system's /etc/lsb-release has been modified and I want to replace it to the version in base-files package. However I can't apt-get purge base-files because it contains crucial system files ...
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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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System-V-like utilities won't install

The following pacages won't update in my ubuntu 12.04,I just upgraded it to 12.10 and all the updates installed,but these won't: System-v-like utilities The elementary widget set library runtime ...
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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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Why is check_linux_raid missing from nagios plugins in 13.04?

After upgrading to 13.04 my Nagios monitoring started to notify me of a problem with my raid setup (mdadm raid). After some investigation it seems the check_linux_raid plugin is not included anymore ...
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How can I install Ultrastar Deluxe in Ubuntu 13.04?

I'd like to install Ultrastar Deluxe in Ubuntu 13.04. However, the PPA only contains packages for Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04, 10.10 and 10.04. Is there any way I can install Ultrastar Deluxe in Ubuntu ...
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Can I install programs on a live DVD, just to test them?

My Ubuntu's version is 12.04. Right now I'm using Windows, but as I've burned an Ubuntu image disk to a DVD, I want to know if it's possible to install programs on it, just to test them. Will it ...
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Can I Install Old Packages on Newer Version of Ubuntu?

I installed Ubuntu 13.04 yesterday. I want to know whether I can install the packages I downloaded previously, on this version of Ubuntu. Will it cause any problems?
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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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Terminal aborts installation of a package no matter what I type

When I'm trying to install a package, say chromium I type this in the terminal: sudo apt-get install chromium Then it says: After this operation, 3.1415926 MB of additional disk space will be ...
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Installing nemesis, finding some equivalent

I have some problems installing the package nemesis. I downloaded it via wget, after having installed libnet-dev and libpcap-dev. I ran ./configure. Then when calling make, I get this message ... ...

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