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DebianInstaller is the official installation system for the Debian distribution since the Sarge (3.1) release.

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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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Installing 14.04 from ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.iso with pxe

We're trying to do an automated network installation using pxe. We installed netboot tools (14.04 LTS) and extracted the ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.iso contents into http server. We saw that we have ...
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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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Looking for info on debconf-set-selections/pre-configuration/pre-seeding specs format

The output of debconf-get-selection, once the comment and blank lines are filtered out, consists of records (i.e. rows) of 4 (or sometimes 3) whitespace-separated fields. For example1: d-i ...
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How can I set up the Trusty Desktop ISO for preseeding?

With Precise, I used to create a USB stick using the so-called "Alternate" installer DVD with my own preseed.txt, update isolinux/txt.cfg with a new menu item that would pass my preseed file on the ...
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How to modify Ubuntu Precise .iso preseed?

I'm trying to modify the installation sequence of Ubuntu Precise. I need add a repository package inside the iso. I make my own apt repository mirror and add my own packages with reprepro ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How in install all debian files in a folder except older versions

In a folder there are debian files for different packages which were originally downloaded by sudo apt-get. I want to install all of then in another Ubuntu system. The problem is that there may be ...
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