Questions about software packages, installing them, removing them, updating them and finding them.
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apt-cacher-ng: force client on local repository
I'm currently managing a dozen servers. apt-cacher-ng is installed on the development server to maintain the packages.
The idea is to have exactly the same version and number of packages on the ...
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Samba installation failed on ubuntu 12.10
I was trying to install samba to access shared printer on windows pc connected via office network, following response came out from terminal. please guide me how to install Samba or any other ...
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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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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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How do I block a certain package from being installed without disabling recommends?
I want to blacklist the package ttf-mscorefonts-installer forever.
How can I make sure upgrading my system will never install this package without disabling other "recommends" from being installed?
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How to manuall install/integrate binary aplication?
So I have binary application that works. What should I do to get "full" integration with Kubuntu? (Info about Ubuntu specific steps should help too)
Things I would like to achieve:
Placing app ...
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How to package shared library in deb packages
My application uses some shared libraries, which i need to package with the binary, and as per
Debian Policy Rules
It is recommended that supporting files and run-time support programs that do not ...
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How can I preseed package installation without a network connection?
I am working to create an unattended offline installation of the Ubuntu Server 12.04.
I have everything preseeded so far, but I still can't figure out how to install other packages without requiring ...
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Will Adobe Reader 9.5.3 be offered in partner repository?
Will there be an Ubuntu package in the Canonical Partner repository for the security update Adobe Reader 9.5.3?
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ubuntugis demands a partial upgrade? Is this safe?
I would like to do some GIS in ubuntu. When I use the repo:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
Update manager asks me to do a partial upgrade. The packages it wants to ...
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configure says I don't have lib, but aptitude says I do
I've just run a configure script which alerts me:
checking for gcry_control in -lgcrypt... no
configure: error: libgcrypt not found. Install libgcrypt or use --disable-libgcrypt. Have a nice day.
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How to install Trimaran on 12.10?
I am not able to install the trimaran package on Ubuntu 12.10. I have tried this how-to guide.
Can someone help me find the solution to this problem?
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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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Trouble installing package and updating
I almost nothing about Ubuntu. When I try to run the command to install of a package, I am said that 'unable to locate package'
When I try to run sudo apt-get update, the system seems being blocked! ...
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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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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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libgdal_1.9.1-2_i386.deb install issue in ubuntu 12.10
i am trying to install opengeo-suite in my ubuntu 12.10. I am following the official installation instruction, and downloaded all the packages, but it throws and error at the time of installing the ...
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How to resolve `make` errors while installing WSNet?
I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 and I want to install the sensor network simulator WSNet. But when I run make it doesn't work and gives the following output:
make[5]: entrant dans le répertoire « ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 package issues
I have a fresh install of 12.04 ran the updates just fine. (I hate not having my synaptic package manager) I went to fetch k9copy and this is what I got. Package uudeview is not available, but is ...
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Unable to install Eclipse, how can I locate the missing package?
I can't install eclipse with sudo apt-get install eclipse-platform
The response is:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to ...
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Package dependencies errors?
I have some problems with Lubuntu. When I tried sudo apt-get update:
Fetched 1,222 kB in 7s (171 kB/s) ...
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Failed to download packages from software center
I tried to install many softwares from software center like VLC, Quickly etc but failed to download and install them on my Ubuntu. It gave this error. Failed to download package.
Please help me.
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Package system broke. Memory full with inodes
I had the problem with package system broken and realized that it is because of the higher inode files, which filled the /usr up to 100%. Please suggest a good and safe way to solve this problem.
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Fixing Networking Errors after Updating
I have Ubuntu 12.04.1 installed on my Desktop (because 12.10 won't work with my GPU). Last Thursday, January 24th, I installed the updates that were recommended to me. I admit that I did not read ...
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How to change, configure and make a installed package…darkstat
I've installed darkstat via: "apt-get install". I then downloaded the darkstat source code to make some changes to it using: "apt-get source darkstat". I made my changes, then I used the command: ...
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Debian Packaging a C Program
Hye,
I have made a simple C program.
I went through the entire "ubuntu-packaging-guide Documentation". Followed all the steps and managed to make a debian package without any error and warning as ...
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Problem installing KDE In 12.04
After a sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade and putting the command
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
in the terminal to install KDE I get this:
The following packages have ...
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cannot apt-get install - on ubuntu server 12.10
I installed from cd a fresh ubuntu server 12.10 (FYI: amd64)
I need ubuntu-desktop. So I did run as per doc.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
I keep getting unable to ...
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dpkg error getting while upgrading from 12.04 to 12.10
How to solve this error:
dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 15356
package 'libogg0': package has field 'Multi-Arch: same' but is missing architecture
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Disk drive for / not ready on boot after upgrade from 10.04 to 12.04
After upgrading (using the Upgrade button from the update manager) from 10.04.4 to 12.04.1, I cannot boot anymore. Upon booting, I am greeted with the Ubuntu logo and the error "The disk drive for / ...
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Terminal Errors/Package Erros
After running some updates a week ago or so, I've noticed that after any installations via the Ubuntu Software Center or any installed in the GUI have given an error message stating that there was a ...
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Stuck removing ffmpeg from system due to package problems
I'd be very grateful to get a bit of support on the following situation:
Using 12.04, and I used the PPA of Jon Severinson for ffmpeg. I had a problem playing movies with MPlayer, so I decided to ...
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Derby ij from the CLI
I've fiddled about with manually install derby in order to have access to ij, but have since come across the javadb package(s), which is Derby under another name.
Does this package, or is there a ...
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Cannot update using Update manager because “Package operation failed”
I have 390 updates after opening up 32 bit through VM Ware Fusion. When tried to update, I got "Package operation failed" error and I can't even open up .run to install the application.
Here are the ...
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I cannot install Synaptic Package Manager because of the following error
How do I go around this and install it?
$ sudo apt-get install synaptic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package synaptic is not ...
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Running 'apt-get upgrade' on Amazon EC2 AMI twice in succession upgrades very different packages
When I run apt-get upgrade the first time on a freshly created Precise 64-bit AMI (ami-a29943cb), I get the following:
The following packages have been kept back:
linux-image-virtual linux-virtual
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Can't install using aptitude because “depends on … which is a virtual package”!
Trying to install ìces here is what I get:
root@webserver:/etc# aptitude install ices
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ices{b}
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 ...
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Ubuntu won't install any new packages
I am mainly a Windows user and deal with Ubuntu on the side. I have a 1TB drive with Ubuntu on 100GB and windows taking up the rest. Windows XP won't load (corrupted bootleg copy) I am now using ...
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App for packaging Qt programs
I need to upload my app on PPA, but in order to do that I need to make source package. I found some tutorials but they very hard for me because I never made a package in Ubuntu. I found nice app for ...
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Install the latest version of graphviz
I asked this question:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11266816/how-to-use-tapered-edges-in-graphviz
...and learned that the version of graphviz in the ubuntu repos is 2.26, while a feature I ...
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Synchronize applications between computers automatically
The Ubuntu Software Center has "Sync applications from other computers" and "reinstall previous purchases" options. However, I don't think either of these functions can install or synchronize multiple ...
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Custom distro: changing Ubiquity slides and legal questions
I would like to build my own Ubuntu based distro. I am using Live CD customization tutorial in the Ubuntu help pages, and also using remastering software.
I have a few concerns, basically legal.
I ...
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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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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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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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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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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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How to completely remove mythes-ru and repair broken package catalog
ruddcl@Tashkent-02:/$ sudo apt-get remove --purge mythes-ru
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' ...
