Questions tagged [deb]
Questions about the Debian packaging format with the extension '.deb'. Packages for Ubuntu are provided in this format.
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If a package is available as both a deb and a snap, which method is preferrable?
Of course for most packages the answer is trivial: if it's some tool or library, deb is the only option, while for some proprietary software snap is the only option.
It seems Ubuntu is heavily ...
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Problem installing the software [duplicate]
I downloaded the .deb file of several programs. When I double click the file and open it with the software installer, I click install and after a few moments the window automatically closes and the ...
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App center does not open .deb packages
As you can see, the bug is in the title. When I open a .deb package, the App Center shows a loading icon:
I have left it loading like this for more than two hours, but it continued spinning.
Is this ...
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Installing a new version of a software already installed?
So I run Discord on my computer and it doesn't come from a repository, it's a downloaded .deb-file.
Sometimes Discord wants me to update with a new .deb-file.
But when I download and run that deb file ...
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There is no software install app [duplicate]
I tried to install a .deb file but I can’t it says I open it with archive manager for some reason
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Creating a Debian package for a Qt application built using CMake
I would like to create a .deb installation package for a GUI based Qt5 application. Most of the links available for this problem are pretty old, so I'm curious if there are more up-to-date solutions ...
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Chrome suddenly won't load in Ubuntu 23.10
When I logged in today Chrome will not load. Clicking on the icon does nothing. I rebooted. I used sudo apt reinstall google-chrome-stable. Nothing. I re-downloaded the .deb package from Google and ...
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Can't Print PDF Document to a Printer in Document Viewer (Evince)
Printing works in all other apps (browsers,scribes) but can't print to printer using Evince .
It's showing Printing complete dialogue(notification) but nothing happens.
I can print only in the flatpak ...
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How to properly specify dependency package versions on a deb package
I'm trying to build a package that depends on libssl. Here's how my control file looks like:
Architecture: i386
Maintainer: Name
Installed-Size: 938
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libncursesw5 (>= 5....
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Can't get Parsec to run on Ubuntu 18.04, missing avcodec58
i am currently trying to run Parsec on my Ubuntu 18.04 to connect to my remote Windows gaming rig.
it says which libraries are required.
As far as i can tell via synaptic is that the only dependend ...
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How to package and deploy a DEB without any assumptions about dependencies installed on the target machine
I am creating a DEB package for installation by external systems. At this early stage of development the DEB package consists of custom-developed Python wheels. These wheels depend on:
System binary ...
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Building ffmpeg deb package gives fakeroot debian/rules clean gave error exit status 2
I am trying to build my first .deb package (with ffmpeg sources) and I get some errors. Those are my steps that can be reproduced to get this error:
git clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git ...
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How to install Firefox directly from Mozilla with `apt`?
I never got around to using snap version of Firefox and have been stuck on version 88 for awhile. This makes some websites inoperable. I heard that Mozilla has now released a .deb package for Ubuntu. ...
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Software app is not showing installed software and not installing .deb package
Earlier my software store was not showing installed software, but I referred to this answer, but still it's not running the .deb package. I want to use Chrome Remote Desktop service. I followed the ...
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Why am I getting "Command 'deb' not found"?
I have come across several installation instructions that include the command deb. But it appears that this command is not available on my installation.
Where can I get this command? Is there a work-...
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Kubuntu problem with removing .deb from disc?
I'm a new kubuntu user, I don't know much, so please understand, I installed minetest from discover, but unfortunately not the snap version, and I managed to delete everything in the console except 4 ...
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Software installed from .deb files won't launch
Linux newbie here!
I freshly installed the latest Ubuntu 22.04 version on my PC and I'm having trouble with .deb files.
While I can install them without issues, when I run the program it just won't ...
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Uninstall STM32CubeIDE
I downloaded and installed an older version of STM32CubeIde from this site a while ago. It is a dot DEB file version 1.5. How do I completely remove this software?
Ubuntu 20.04 is the OS used. Ubuntu ...
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How to define alternative sets of Depends in a deb control file?
I'm editing a control file of a deb package which contains
Depends: nvidia-340 (>=340.29), nvidia-340-uvm (>=340.29), nvidia-340-dev (>=340.29),
nvidia-modprobe (>=340.29), nvidia-...
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How can I verify correct CUDA is installed on my Ubuntu 16.04?
I want to install CUDA 8.0, but I got CUDA 7.5 when using the Nvidia provided *.deb file instead of the *.run installer.
I followed the instructions to install on the Nvidia website:
https://...
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Is it possible to add an apt repository before the installer check for dependencies availability? [duplicate]
Is it possible to add an apt repository before the installer check for dependencies availability?
I want to add append a deb software repository because the repository contains what's listed in my ...
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apt install of a .deb package on lubuntu 22.04 shows the error: user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
My distribution is lubuntu 22.04. I know that this question seems a duplicate of other questions (for example this) but none answer is working on lubuntu 22.04.
Furthermore I'm trying to install a ...
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Adding post .deb install scripts
So I'm building a .deb, and I need to do a few post-install commands (linking libraries paths, and a few other things).
Is there a way to have it so when you do a sudo dpkg -i <pacakage-name>....
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What compression is supported by debian file [.deb] decompressor?
I know that a typical .deb file contains three files:
debian-binary
control.tar.gz
data.tar.gz
and that some are xz compressed instead of gzip (control.tar.xz, data.tar.xz).
What are other ...
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How to customize an ISO Ubuntu 22.04 arm64 server for pre-install a .deb package
The situation is: I want to install a package (.deb) in the Ubuntu ISO before installing the OS, to avoid installing the package every time I use the ISO. How can I do that using the Linux command ...
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How to install Safing (Portmaster) in Ubuntu 23.10 [duplicate]
I fresh installed Ubuntu 23.10 after I couldn't upgrade from 23.10. Now I want to install Safing (Portmaster) in Ubuntu 23.10, but the App Center is not able to install Safing. How can I install ...
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Can I compile a Delphi project to run on ubuntu?
I need to compile a Delphi (pascal) project to run on Ubuntu. It has a GUI and it is supposed to communicate with an external device so I cannot use WINE to just execute the .exe file. Is there any ...
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Can't install .deb files (or any packages, it seems) [duplicate]
I just installed ubuntu, and anytime I try to open a .deb file, it just opens up in the archive manager. When I try to open with another application, there's no option for "software install" ...
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When building package with debuild, I'm unable to force make to look into certain directories for *.h files
What I'm trying to do is to build a deb package with debuild command, given I have provided all the necessary files like debian/control, debian/rules, debian/changelog etc...
When trying to run ...
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Custom Deb Packages in Landscape
How to Deliver and Install my custom-made deb packages in my Ubuntu Systems through landscape
Landscape is a large-scale device managing solution by Canonical.
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What is a post-installation script for a package?
I've seen a lot of questions on Ask Ubuntu about errors like this:
foo post-installation script returned exit status 1
What is a post-installation script, exactly? Where are post-installation scripts ...
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When installing, command in `postinst` always results in `$?` = `0`
I have a postinst script in my debian package:
#!/bin/bash
oqm-config -g system.hostname
RESULT="$?"
if [ "$RESULT" -eq 1 ]; then
oqm-config -s system.hostname $(hostname).local ...
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VSCode not responding after installing it on Ubuntu 22.04
I am a new Ubuntu user running Ubuntu 22.04.03 on a dual booted X1 Carbon 7th gen. I have attempted to install a variety of versions of VSCode (1.80, 1.81) in a variety of way (apt, snap, apt with ...
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Build deb package for Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04: dependencies issues
I have a C++ binary application and I package it into a "deb" package on my Ubuntu 20.04. This "deb" package has several dependencies that I have defined:
$ dpkg -I my-package-1.0....
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deb package script for --purge
Is there any script that get triggered when user execute apt purge? i.e. it does NOT trigger if user runs apt remove ....
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2015 Macbook Air, I have the bcmwl-kernel-source deb file installed, but the install button on the app store does not work, and sudo dpkg -i , errors
ashst99@vantlla:-$ sudo dpkg -t--force-overwrite bcml-kernel-source.deb (Reading database... 109565 files and directortes currently installed.) Preparing to unpack bcmil-kernel-source.deb... Unpacking ...
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gio: Setting attribute metadata::custom-icon not supported
On Ubuntu 22.4 lts I can manually assign an icon to an executable file in nautilus, by right clicking on that file in the file explorer, select "Properties", click on the default icon, and ...
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Can't download microsoft teams deb file
does anyone know how to install teams on Ubuntu ? The official deb file is 404 link ?
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AnyDesk doesn’t work after upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
After upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, when I open AnyDesk app (downloaded from official website .deb file) nothing happens. In logs I can see this error/message:
Could not create transient scope for ...
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Installing software with support of earlier version of ubuntu
I have Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster. I want to install Cloudflare Warp (https://pkg.cloudflareclient.com/). Now, this software has support only till 22.04 LTS.
Is there any way I can install the ...
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Download a .deb file without installing on a non debian device without using apt
Is it possible to simply download a deb file using curl or get it without having to dig for the URLs from the ppa file or use apt? Mainly to simple download the file from other non debian Linux ...
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Is there a Orage package for the current LTS version?
Is there a Orage deb package for the current Ubuntu 22.04 LTS XFCE DE? everywhere I look it only goes up to 20.04 did anyone manage to install it for 22.04? It is also availablefor latest Debian as ...
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OpenCV compiles correctly but fails during .deb packaging
Attempting to follow some tutorials on building a .deb package for a newer version of OpenCV in Ubuntu 18.04. Here are my steps:
wget https://github.com/opencv/opencv/archive/4.1.0.zip
unzip 4.1.0....
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download individual `.deb` package file for integrity verification
I have system runtime measurements which shows what files of the packages have been executed by the system. I want to verify the checksum calculated by the Linux kernel's Integrity Management ...
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Ubuntu - Tool for UDP rate-limit
I have a SIP gateway machine that I would like to apply some kind of rate limit on the host machine.
Something like - If an X number of connections happens under Y seconds -> Block source-IP and ...
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The Install button is missing when trying to upgrade a app from a deb file using the Ubuntu Software GUI after upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04
I have a Dell XPS 13 7390 that came with Ubuntu 18.04. It recently prompted me to upgrade to 20.04, so I did.
Some of my software, checks for updates when it starts, one example is DBeaver. I have ...
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Where can I find statistics on package downloads and dependencies?
Is there a site that lists (or ranks) Ubuntu/Debian packages by downloads or dependency count? The Node.js package manager npm has leaderboards, as does PyPI (unofficially). It'd be interesting to see ...
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what is unsupported file given on command line [duplicate]
Trying to install protonvpn-stable-release_1.0.3_all.deb using sudo apt-get install. terminal responds: E: Unsupported file ///home/george/Downloads given on commandline
$ sudo apt-get install ///...
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How do I uninstall Microsoft edge? [duplicate]
I just install Microsoft Edge browser using a deb package.
Now I can not uninstall it.
If I go to the menu, and right click on it, there is no option to uninstall.
If I open Discover app, Edge it not ...
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Reinstall application above existing
Is there a way to reinstall .deb file so that to keep all previously installed files in place ?
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