Questions tagged [apt]
APT is short for Advanced Packaging Tool, the package manager for Debian-based distributions. It is also the most used tool for installing packages in Ubuntu. Questions about using any of the apt commands should use this tag.
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Is it safe to remove linux-generic-hwe-20.04?
After upgrading Kubuntu 20.10 to 21.04 to 21.10 to 22.04 LTS I now had both linux-generic-hwe-20.04 and linux-generic-hwe-22.04 installed. Weirdly enough when I tried to remove linux-generic-hwe-20.04 ...
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Install ros2 humble desktop in my Ubuntu it shows E : unable to locate package [duplicate]
I am trying to install ros2 humble desktop in my Ubuntu it shows:
E : Unable to locate package ros-humble-desktop
Issues I faced during dual boot and installing ros2
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Can't remove Nvidia linux module
I'm trying to remove a specific nvidia linux module but it doesn't work:
sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq linux-modules-nvidia-525-5.15.0-84-generic
which returns:
Reading database...
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problems in running sudo apt update and upgrade [duplicate]
this is the output:
Ign:2 ://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease
Ign:1 ://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Err:2 ://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease
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Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS "cal" cmd is not working [duplicate]
I attempted to install 'ncal' using 'sudo apt install ncal,' but I encountered multiple errors:
I also tried 'sudo apt install command-no-found,' and the results were identical:
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Errors when installing g++
I honestly have no idea what I'm doing here. I'm trying to install g++ so I can run c++ code and its not working at all.
Here are the errors I'm getting:
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How to answer "Which services should be restarted?" after apt dist-upgrade in console
After running apt dist-upgrade in a root shell in ubuntu server 22.04.3, sometimes the question "Which services should be restarted?" is shown. Example:
Restarting services...
Daemons using ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy, libc6 breaks after update. How to recover half-installed libc6
After an update my libc6 broke, in particular /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 was deleted. I had to boot from a live distro to copy it back because no command was working anymore (now I ...
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apt --fix-broken install doent work or cannot upgrade [closed]
hello i have a problem with my packages
Check the error reason (see log file: /var/log/plesk/install/plesk_18.0.53_installation.log), fix and try again
dpkg action:
Trying to start service mariadb... ...
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the dotnet sdk repo is set up wrong - how/where do I report it? [duplicate]
I don't know where to report this, if you could point me in the right direction that would be great.
The question, to be clear, is "Where do I report this," not "How do I solve this.&...
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KEA DHCP and Stork on 22.04
Trying to replace the EndOfLife isc-dhcp-server with KEA. Its a bit tricky, because the package description (command apt/apt-get) in not well documented. At least I found the package name under Ubuntu ...
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The repository 'http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu kinetic-security Release' does not have a Release file [duplicate]
I am running sudo apt-get update and I am getting error bellow:
Ign:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu kinetic-security InRelease
Ign:2 http://ci.archive....
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I closed the terminal while updating and did not reboot because upgrading apt is in progress
I closed the terminal while upgrading, and did not reboot the PC because upgrading with apt is in progress. The desktop doesn't show everything that it usually does. For example, the icons in the Dock ...
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How do I install amdgpu-dkms in Unbuntu-22?
When installing using the apparently "good" amdgpu-install command,
# amdgpu-install version
# amdgpu-install_22.20.50200-1_all.deb
# cut date: 2023-9-13
# today: 2023-99-20
# allegedly ...
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my sudo apt update doesn't work [duplicate]
I'm a complete beginner to ubuntu and i've just downloaded ubuntu 20.04 as virtual machine to run ROS on my computer. But when i tried to test it, it gave me the following log filled by errors. My ...
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Im trying to use sudo apt update but keep getting this error [duplicate]
Ive been trying to run sudo apt update but I keep running to the same error which ive added below. I'll appreciate any input you have
E: The repository 'http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code/dists/...
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Gdm3 cannot be installed [closed]
Image about unmet dependencies
I was updating the software suddenly some problems arised and they were fixed but it damaged gdm3 which was removed. Now when I try to install it again it shows some ...
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Sources.list Critical Vulnerability link update
This question is related to this GitHub post.
I just wanted to make sure if I got the link correctly and not made an error I replace the ma.archiveUbuntu links with http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
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Error in Installing Jenkins
I was installing Jenkins and run the following command, I got following error-
utsav@utsav-HP-Laptop-14s-cr2xxx:~$ wget -q -O - https://pkg.jenkins.io/debian-stable/jenkins.io.key | sudo apt-key add -
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Why is the manual of apt incomplete? [duplicate]
I would like to see what are the command-line switches of apt list but after 30min of research I don't manage to find a lot of information about it...
I tried to type apt list --help, man apt and man ...
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E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) while configuring dpkg
I was trying to force install the picoscenes drive via
sudo dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/picoscenes-driver-modules-5.15.0-78-generic_20230803_amd64.deb
and in the process may ...
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Security update missing (apt update) [duplicate]
As a sysadmin, I'm pretty aggressive about the security updates. I'm looking for the best practices when an update is missing in the official repository.
Example
Sept. 1st, CISA releases a security ...
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E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock. It is held by process 2608 (packagekitd)
When I type sudo apt update for the first time after opening my laptop, I got this error message:
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock. It is held by process 2608 (packagekitd)
But when I ...
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Ubuntu Linux 22.04.3 Update Issues
Getting the following error when trying to carry out any updates. I can ping google via host or dns fine
Err:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
403 Forbidden [IP: 192.168.30.10 ...
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How to restore ubuntu graphics after deleting python?
I'm using Ubuntu 23.04 right now and I've made a similar mistake before
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I was doing something that told me to remove and reinstall python3.11 and I ran this command
sudo apt remove python3.11
It was ...
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Can somebody help me get out of this problem while installing ros-foxy-desktop? [duplicate]
$ sudo apt install ros-foxy-desktop python3-argcomplete
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may ...
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Issue with removing ubuntu-advantage-tools (28.1~22.04)
So I did an upgrade form ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 which did not quite go perfectly and there were some issues. While doing a sudo apt-get upgrade I am getting the following message
Reading package lists....
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Installation problem because of updation problem
I can't not able to update it give me 5 errors
Output:
Err:1 http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable InRelease
403 Forbidden [IP: 40.65.182.21 80]
Err:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu ...
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VSCodium update: The certificate is NOT trusted
Trying to apt update gives this error for VSCodium:
Err:7 https://download.vscodium.com/debs vscodium InRelease
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Cannot fix the error "The following packages have unmet dependencies"
I'm working with Ubuntu 20.4 Focal Fossa and node v16.20.2.
Whenever I run sudo apt install npm or sudo apt-get install npm I get the following error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency ...
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openssh-client cannot be installed [closed]
I want to install openssh-client on my Ubuntu 22.10 desktop. However, when I try
sudo apt install openssh-client
it throws the following error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree.....
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Unable to upgrade from Ubuntu 22.10 - packages have been kept back: libgd-dev libgd3 libgd3:i386 [duplicate]
I'm on Ubuntu 22.10 unable to uprade. I tried all that I could find:
apt update
apt upgrade
apt full-upgrade
Here is the log:
hp@hp-workstation:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
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vmware using proxy vpn to perform apt-get is invalid
I'm not using v2rayN proxy tool to execute my sh script in vmware ubuntu
Each time apt-get is executed,always returns "400 bad request",
But I copied the error link, and on my windows ...
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When I run sudo apt-get update, I am facing these many issues. Please tell me how to remove all errors [duplicate]
sahil@jain:/etc/apt/apt.conf.d$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Hit:2 https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com jammy InRelease ...
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I recently moved to ubuntu. Could you please help me to get rid of below errors when running sudo apt update?
savio@savio-HP-Pavilion-Gaming-Notebook:~$ sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease ...
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How can I upgrade the "find" command to the latest version?
I got this answer for Is it possible to chain two consecutive find commands? last year.
Today I wanted to test the latest recommendation to pipe two find commands together.
find ... -print0 | find -...
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Can't run apt update on my computer
sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease ...
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what can be causes of errors in apt hashes, down to details? [duplicate]
I've got in my GUI notification, that new APT updates are ready.
When I have run apt upgrade, I got several error messages, similar to described here. However difference is that hash errors were ...
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discrepancy in Mysql installed version and version shown in package cache in ubuntu 14 [closed]
I am currently using ubuntu 14.04.6 LTS machine. This server is a clone of one of the MYSQL Read REPLICAs of AWS Ec2 machine. I have updated the cache and upgraded all the packages. Please see the ...
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Repositories for 'old' software
Because of the pending loss of CentOS we are moving to a new operating system. We have an application that REQUIRES php 7.0.33. After a few tries with other Operating systems, I was able to load the ...
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Can't update or reinstall Zoom in 22.04
After a summer away, Zoom would not run without an update. After following the instructions and downloading the .deb package, all attempts to install ended with an error:
dpkg: error processing ...
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I have a problem installing anything on ubuntu LTS 20.04 [duplicate]
I am trying to install new package with apt-get install but I run in thousands dpkg errors.
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'fonts-tlwg-kinnari' missing; assuming package has no files ...
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GPG error: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available
May I please get some directions towards fixing the problem below?
W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used.
GPG ...
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Upgrade WSL Ubuntu (18.04) without removing snapd?
I tried to upgrade my Ubuntu WSL on Windows 10 to later Ubuntu as it had older 18.04 currently. But it failed with aborting error without additional information. I found online that others had removed ...
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.deb package not found in Docker container, even when installing from within the container
I want to install the globalprotect VPN client in an Ubuntu docker image. I have downloaded the deb files, and have manged to successfully install it on the host (also Ubuntu) like so:
sudo apt ...
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Unable to load VPN connection editor in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and dependency issue [duplicate]
For some reason, my Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS can no longer establish a vpn connection to my university (it used to work fine). When I go to Network Settings -> settings of my vpn -> identity, I get ...
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Installing Spek on Ubuntu
I am trying to figure out how to get a tool called Spek - which hasn't been released yet (version still below 1.0) - on my Ubuntu setup.
The app is not available in the software "store" nor ...
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How to determine if an application is safe for use on Ubuntu
I'm very new to making Ubuntu my daily driver OS. My question is how do I determine if an application is downloaded from a reputable source using apt commands? I'm not sure where to find information ...
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apt update error only with non-official ppas
On a computer which is behind a proxy (appropriately configured I hope), after upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to 20.04 then 22.04:
updating/upgrading from the official Ubuntu repositories works fine,...
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sudo apt update not working [duplicate]
Ubuntu and CS newbie here. Upgraded to version 20.04.2 but when I use sudo apt update it throws me the following error:
sudo apt update
Err:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
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