Questions tagged [debian-installer]
DebianInstaller is the official installation system for the Debian distribution since the Sarge (3.1) release.
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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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Title app name in Snap Store is strange
I created a *.deb file using dpkg.
When I try to open my file using Snap Store the name of my app is strange, for example instead of display "My New App", appear "mynewapp", it's ...
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Why a bash script is not working properly after being installed via .deb package in /usr/local/bin and without installation it works?
I have developed a bash script named njsearch that should perform a search in a given folder, and save the log inside auditlogs.log file:
#!/bin/bash
logs_dir=/var/log/mylogfolder
mydata=/path/to/...
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early_command equivalent in cloud-init
I have an Ubuntu installer based on Ubuntu mini.iso which uses preseed. Now with the support for mini.iso, being stopped by Canonical, I'm trying to create an installer based on cloud-init. However, ...
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what package manager can I use to install cockpit-machine on ubuntu server?
I have tried to install cockpit-machine on ubuntu server using dnf package manager. I got feedback 'sudo: dnf: command not found'
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Can you specify `logger` as dependency for a debian package?
I have following dependencies for debian/control file,
Depends: python3, logger
When I try to install (apt install) it on Ubuntu22.04, I get
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
<...
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Ubuntu 20.04.3 Server autoinstall user-data does bootorder efibootmgr not change
Actually I have an issue by running Ubuntu 20.04 Server, if we
customize the user-data file, I'm getting only the prompt by installation Ubuntu 20.04.
Case:
We would like to build an Ubuntu 20.04 ...
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pkg-buildpackage: error: failed to sign .buildinfo file
Update 7/28/2021: I ignore both errors mentioned below, assuming I understand the why of both (see below) and succeeded installing the debhelper version 13.2.1 and the COTURN version 4.5.2r3 in Ubuntu ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 - debian installer (preseed) not respecting max size on partitions
I am using preseed to do an unattended install of Ubuntu 18.04 using the following recipe, but it ends up with the lv_swap partition filling up the disk and it ends up with 60+GB.
How can I make the ...
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Upgrade button is missing from Ubuntu Software when opening .deb file in Ubuntu 20.04
My current version of F5 SSL VPN is 7183 (see here), then I downloaded the update (version 7184) debian file, and when I open the .deb file, it leads to Ubuntu Software (here) and nothing's wrong up ...
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How to find list of available packages for preseed pkgsel/include list?
When setting up a preseed file for a particular Ubuntu release, how can one find out what are legal values to use in a pkgsel/include list? I have a long list of packages to install for this ...
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What installer is used by ubuntu 18.04 LTs and Ubuntu20.04 LTS server image?
This is really confusing compared to "Anaconda" installer we have been using with CentOS.
What is the installer used on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Server and Ubuntu 20 LTs Server images?
When I go ...
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How to display custom installed debian package on "Ubuntu Software" installed page?
I have create a package call google for test the debain packages. I installed it and now we can see it on application window as well.
In here 3rd row, 3rd one is my installed package.
When I right ...
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How to install Docker with another Debian package?
I have 2 images on Docker Registry, so my requirement is to create Debian package to pull those 2 images and run on the installed machine. My problem is if I want to use Docker command, Docker should ...
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Anyone using Landscape to manage Ubuntu Desktops
I have been attempting to use Landscape to manage Ubuntu Desktops for a few years now. It seems problem after problem. The latest problem is where Landscape is leaving a source list reference to ...
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Seeding files in ubuntu server ISO
I'm working with an ubuntu-server-install ISO. I've a file.tar.gz file that I want to have in the system after installation of ISO. Where should it be placed in the mounted ISO, so that it can be ...
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Can we think of a .deb file in Linux as equivalent to a .msi file in Windows? What are the differences? [closed]
.deb files in Linux have been quite confusing since I was introduced to Linux. Is it safe to think of the .deb files as being similar to .msi files in Windows?...are there any problems in this analogy?...
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How do I obtain the debian-installer for Ubuntu Server 18.04.3 LTS?
Where can I find the debian-installer iso cd for Ubuntu Server 18.04.3 LTS?
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Optimization on preseed debian-installer testing
Alright I am struggling with preseed because the whole process takes so much time for changing preseed then testing it (VM's are too slow and to test on the same machine I have to isolate all other ...
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How to install the Dissenter Browser on Ubuntu?
Is it in the repos?
I tried downloading the debian file from their website, but it gave me dependency issues
https://dissenter.com/#download
So what are the steps to getting this browser installed?
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Custom install - ""No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources"
I am trying to build a custom build of 18.04 with some extra packages installed, using https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization (substituting 'bionic' for 'xenial'),
but when ...
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Ubuntu netboot installer point to point (peer) Network
I am trying to install Ubuntu 18.04 Netboot (minimal), but in my network i have peer ip address instead of Getaway.
and ubuntu installer just ask for getaway and no option or choice for peer ip ...
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How to resolve 'held broken packages' (python)?
Unable to install pip , getting error
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
details:
uname -a
Linux a123-45-678-90 4.4.0-116-generic #140~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 16 09:25:...
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How to upgrade kernel version in the netboot installer?
When installing Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS over PXE in UEFI mode it fails detecting the network. On the same computer a HP EliteBook 850 G5 the installation works fine in bios mode. Even if I manually load ...
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Need link download Offline installer x11vnc for Xubuntu 18.04
I have problem:
I need link download offline installer for xubuntu-18.04-desktop-i386
→ x11vnc
thanks
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Enable nmblookup during ubuntu 16.04 installation
I want to be able to run nmblookup during debian installer shell script (d-i preseed/include_command ....).
How can I modify ISO to have nmblookup (it's included with SAMBA) enabled?
I have already ...
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Preseed late_command
I am trying to add a late_command to my preseed file but I always get errors.
This is the command I am trying to use:
in-target curl -L -o /home/$username/postinstall.sh https://raw....
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Edit Debian USB disk
I need edit USB stick disk by adding a file with firmware to my wifi card and lan card when I try install I see error.
How to change permission to add files into USB boot disk working on UBUNTU 17.10?...
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Problem with libmariadb-dev, libmysqlclient-dev and libgdal-dev [duplicate]
I'm trying to install libgdal-dev (for an R package I really need) using:
sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev
But then I get the error message:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libgdal-...
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What the proper way to make a debian package launch an app at startup?
I have created a debian package that contains the following files
mypackage.desktop
mypackage
control
copyright
packagedeb.sh
mypackage.jar (generated from my source code)
I wrote some commands ...
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Automatic Ubuntu 16.04 installation preserving existing partitions
I have seen quite old questions and answers about this subject but the answers were really complicated. So I am hoping that today, we have an easier way to achieve that behavior.
I want to create an ...
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Why doesn't my package get upgraded even if specified in the Debian package's 'control' file?
My project is built on Ubuntu 14.04 in C++ using g++.
Previously, my project used g++ 4.8 for development. Our software depends on the libstdc++6 to run.
We provide Debian packages to install our ...
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How to write log file for deb package installation?
I have created a deb package and i need to write log files for my deb package at the time of installation. I can see some log files are created in this location '/var/log/'. But it does not contain ...
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Where are the packages within an installation DVD?
I have downloaded Kubuntu 16.04 iso image, mounted it to the system and searched for deb files but there was only 20 deb packages: dkms, fakeroot, grub-efi*...
How does ubuntu installer install ...
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how to get debian package from the installed binary
I have installed some utility by apt-get install crash/kdump. Now I want to get the debian package for the installed one. How should I get it? I hope some dpkg commands available to get those.
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Upgrade Old Debian OS [closed]
as of now I am a noob about this, and will be my very first time to upgrade an os, the problem is debian has a very old version:
SMP Debian 3.2.73-2+deb7u2 x86_64 GNU/Linux, and it can't be ...
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How to convert a deb package to udeb
Following up on How to install squid-deb-proxy-client via preseed/early_command, I want to have a udeb of the squid-deb-proxy-client package. From reading the Debian wiki it seems it should be easy ...
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How to transfer c and python code binary to bin
I have created a project in c and python for that i have created lot of files in both languages when compilation done it create single a.out for all c files and the c file calls to *.pyfiles from a....
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Adding ufw rules during a preseeded installation
I've been trying to automatically add UFW rules to allow SSH access during an installation of 16.04 while using a preseed file. However, none of the documented methods result in port 22 being open ...
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netboot installation "pkgsel" failed
I am trying to do a pxe installation and after the base system getting installed, the installer fails at the menu item "Select & Install Software":
On looking at the logs using Alt+f4. I could ...
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Install multiple deb files while respecting their dependencies
To support offline installation of multiple .deb files, I'm using:
sudo dpkg -i dependencies/*.deb
I've noticed some packages fail using this method because of the order they installed
For example, ...
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How to prevent Ubuntu installer from connecting to Canonical
To be precise, I created PXE kickstart installation from ubuntu-15.10-server-amd64.iso with virt-install. After network detections it hangs for a long time trying to connect to Canonical server (which ...
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Installation of Apache2 while already present [closed]
Today I was trying to install Subversion on a Debian server (5.0.8). I ran this command in ssh:
apt-get update && apt-get install subversion apache2 libapache2-svn
Unfortunately, I didn't ...
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How is `initrd` for debian installer being built?
I would like to know how I could generate a custom initrd (like the one here) for the installer.
I've googled for how to do it and all I could find was basically how to insert a random kernel module ...
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Remove private shared libraries from Depends field in control
I'm using command debuild -b to package my application into a .deb. When it goes to run dh_makeshlibs, many shared libraries' names are added in debian/my-package/DEBIAN/shlibs. But some of them are ...
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How to postition within magnetic tape in rescue mode of the installer image
I'm trying to get data from magnetic tape in the ubuntu installer environment respectively the rescue mode of the ubuntu installer image.
To do so, i need to position on a distinct filespace/filemark ...
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ubuntu 14.04.1 mounts /dev/sda1 and asks to unmount while partitioning
We have been making custom made initrd.gz generated through debian-installer for 10.04 and 12.04 ubuntu.
We have been partitioning the disk and have made it automated completely and ask user to ...
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pxe boot, IPV6 delays installer 15 minutes
Using Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
Looking through the log I can see the below error is shown 6 times.
##IPv6 addrconf: prefix with wrong length 48
With around 3 minutes apart each other
Dec 7 04:18:42 net-...
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missing driver during installation / mmc_block / mmcblk
Just like "Install to Intel NUC with onBoard 4GB eMMC":
I try to install Ubuntu Server 14.10 AMD64 on a notebook containing no hard drives (even SSD) but just an (e)MM-Card. Windows works fine with ...
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Creating debian package to install to a path with spaces
I have a Qt application that I want to deploy as a deb package. I have been reading so many sources, all slightly different - most of what I did follows this How To: preparing an application for ...
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