Questions tagged [package-management]

Questions about the management of software packages, in particular the APT and dpkg systems. Use this tag for general questions about package management, and also for questions that cover or compare different packaging systems. For specific package tools, use their own specific tag (like apt, dpkg, snap etc.).

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Conflict between broken ubuntu-advantage-tools and ubuntu-pro-client breaks update [duplicate]

I have a failed Ubuntu-pro installation on a 20.04 LTS (accidentally pressed the marketing button on the software updater), and now efforts to rectify this issue lead to dependency conflicts between ...
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VirtualBox 7 fails on installation process at Ubuntu Desktop 22.04

For Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 to install VirtualBox 7 was executed the following command: sudo apt install ./virtualbox-7.0_7.0.14-161095~Ubuntu~jammy_amd64.deb But it fails with the following error ...
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winehq-stable : Depende: wine-stable (= 9.0.0.0~bullseye-1) E: No se pudieron corregir los problemas, usted ha retenido paquetes rotos [duplicate]

spreen@juanamanso:~$ sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho Creando árbol de dependencias Leyendo la información de estado... Hecho No se pudieron ...
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uninstalling angular globally doesn't work

How can I fully uninstall angular in Ubuntu 22.04? (dimo-labeling) (dimo-labeling) mona@ada:~/dimo-labeling/frontend$ npm uninstall -g @angular/cli up to date in 164ms (dimo-labeling) (dimo-labeling) ...
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PHP - Unwanted automatic apt install

I am working on some local PHP and Laravel development on Ubuntu 22.04. I'm having a problem with PHP 8.1 and Apache2 being automatically installed by apt. This ends up taking precedence over the 8.3 ...
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Fixing Mongodb Installation on Ubuntu without reinstalling OS [duplicate]

I use Ubuntu 20.04 and my computer was running MongoDB normally Suddenly, I become unable to run MongoDB by using systemctl or service command despite not chaning anything related to MongoDB $ ...
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Accidentally deleted source.list in wsl ubuntu [duplicate]

Accidentally deleted source.list in wsl ubuntu while following some tutorial and now what ever i do i cant install anything on it, i tried to paste in a new copy of source.list as stated in this ...
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How to install OpenSSH 8.7 or later on 20.04.6 LTS

I need to upgrade the version of OpenSSH on my Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS to OpenSSH 8.7 or later. After running this: sudo apt upgrade sudo apt install openssh-server It returns; Reading package lists... ...
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Switching between installed versions of Imagemagick

I've inherited management of an Ubuntu system running 22.04. I recently upgraded Imagemagick as part of a apt-get upgrade batch, but there was another version of Imagemagick already installed (I'm not ...
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How to avoid apps upgrading with snap [duplicate]

I'm trying to "pin" my current Blender version. My hardware is a bit old to run Blender 4.0 so I aimed to use the LTS version of it (which is now at version 3.x). I know this is possible to ...
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apt upgrade - connection reset by peer

Pretty fresh Jammy installation. No changes done in the setup whatsoever. I was able to apt update without problems. No proxy. No VPN. What I tried: two different WiFis waiting a week in case the ...
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What dependency solver does APT use?

I noticed packages have version constraints in their metadata (e.g., git). What algorithm does APT use to satisfy these dependencies? E.g., Spack uses Clingo as its dependency solver, Conda and Mamba ...
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Can't install anything with apt install in ubuntu

Any request like sudo apt-get install *** starts the installation process, but when unpacking it throws an error, after which some packages are installed and work fine, some do not work fine, and some ...
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Can't go through "sudo update" because of GPG key error [duplicate]

I could before, this error started to pop up and after that I wasn't able to: 7,898 kB were fetched in 2 s (3,370 kB/s). Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree… Done Status information ...
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fix-broken install not working?

I have just tried to install the Nvidia Cuda and cudnn. But now when I try to run command upgrade, it shows this error: You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these. The following ...
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dezor cant watch stream

Gtk-Message: 20:18:24.938: Failed to load module "xapp-gtk3-module" Checking for update Update for version 1.3.2 is not available (latest version: 1.3.2, downgrade is disallowed). ...
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ubuntu terminal unstable after vmbox guest addition installed

After enabling vmbox guest additions, my ubuntu became unstable. The terminal cracks that I cannot see anything on the terminal. What do I do to resolve this?
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My sudo apt install command is weird after following some instruction

I'm using WSL and I want to download libpng. And so, initially I typed: sudo apt -y install libpng-dev and it worked until it returned cannot access archive.ubuntu or something like that (I don't ...
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Got a dpkg warning during update

After doing a standard update-upgrade I got 2 warning messages highlighted in orange color: dpkg: warning: unable to delete the old directory '/var/lib/ubuntu-advantage': Directory not empty dpkg: ...
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malformed entry 1 in list error

When I run sudo apt upgrade in my terminal, I have this message: E: Malformed entry 1 in list file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list (URI) E: The list of sources could not be read. E: Malformed ...
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Problems installing packages using apt in Wubuntu [duplicate]

I have problems installing most packages, after installing the Wubuntu distribution, what should I do? bin4ry@bin4ry-desktop:~$ sudo apt install libsdl2-dev Reading package lists... Done Building ...
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Packages have unmet dependencies - GUI gone and stuck in tty1 [duplicate]

Installed this DisplayLink driver via APT, and after the reboot, Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS goes into tty1. What I tried: sudo apt install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop sudo apt -f install sudo apt update --fix-...
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I am having problem when I am trying to remove python from my pc

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created ...
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wine installing error

wine installing error . Please help me .. E: Failed to fetch https://mirror.xeonbd.com/ubuntu-archive/pool/main/t/tiff/libtiff5_4.3.0-6ubuntu0.7_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 103.153.241.4 443] E: ...
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apt-get update for gitlab-runner for Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS failing with invalid signature

I'm trying to run apt-get update and getting this error for gitlab-runner: # apt-get update . . . Get:6 https://packages.gitlab.com/runner/gitlab-runner/ubuntu focal InRelease [23.5 kB] Err:6 https://...
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Issues with apt upgrade [duplicate]

I'm running the following command: sudo apt upgrade And the following error pops up: Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly ...
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How to install android-build-tools-33.0.x on Ubuntu?

I'm trying to use Apache Cordova to create an android application. I can't use normal packages because they are too old. I installed NVM for multiple versions of node.js and gradle 7.6, but now I'm ...
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Synaptic error code Internal error opening cache (1). Please report

I have been getting this error when I try to run synaptic or package installer. E: The package net.downloadhelper.coapp:i386 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it. E: Internal ...
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How can I restore my system after a failed install of held-back packages?

I just installed a few held back packages (all were mesa:386 dependent). However, afterwards, tons of system and application packages have been removed. There is no x-server anymore, and no WM, no ...
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How to solve errors while installing PHP 8.x on Ubuntu 20

I am trying to install PHP 8.x but I am getting stuck at one point again and again So in order to install PHP, I assume I need to have ppa:ondrej/php repository present. I was having errors while ...
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Is there an archive of old security updates? [duplicate]

Is there any way to find previous versions of binary package updates that were posted to a security repository? Specifically, I am looking for libssl-dev 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.13 for Jammy, because I'm ...
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Ubuntu CVE status interpretation, is the package really released?

I would like to take this CVE as an example: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12020 In case of gnupg2 it says it is released for jammy. First of all, what is released means exactly? I have found ...
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Any package manager that enforce segregation based on desktop environments available for Ubuntu 22.04 and later?

I'm still using many old hardware machines 10-15 years (Intel CPU's: Atom, Core Duo up to i7 early generations). In late releases of KDE, Gnome and some other DE's, they started deploying multiple ...
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Always getting error 'The following packages have unmet dependencies' when I want to install new packages

When I get some new packages using `sudo apt update sudo apt install <packages>` I always got error message like `The following packages have unmet dependencies: squid : Depends: libecap3 (>...
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how to remove the source list of celestia [duplicate]

I can't open use my terminal properly after trying so many times of installing celestia. But in the end, I wasn't able to install it. It says E: Type 'sudo' is not known on line 2 in source list /etc/...
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This is similar to mantic repository does not have a Release file, but the fix in there does not work for me in 23.10 ubuntu but it return this error [duplicate]

Hit:1 https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com mantic InRelease Ign:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu mantic InRelease ...
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How can I upgrade a package to a specific version? [duplicate]

I know how to install a specific version of a package. Now I want to upgrade all packages of my system with: sudo apt upgrade But for a specific package, I do not want it to upgrade to the latest ...
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How to install packages like libglu1-mesa in a server without sudo

I'm using GPU server provided by my school, and I don't have the root privilege. But running the code needs to install some packages like libglu1-mesa. They are not python packages so I cannot simply ...
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dependencies issues for packages debhelper & dh-autoreconf for Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS

Having issues installing two packages on an Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS server. They both have dependencies on each other so neither of them will install: debhelper "sudo dpkg -i debhelper_12....
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Intel ARC intel-i915-dkms dpkg error upgrading to HWE kernel 6.5

Whenever I try to install something, it returns this error: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-headers-generic: linux-headers-generic depends on linux-headers-6.5.0-17-generic; ...
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how to create a local repo in ubuntu with specific packages that will serve update and installation request from client machines of all the distros

I can only create a local repo by downloading the whole mirror repository. i want to make the repo only for specific packages not all the packages. i would also want this centos machine to have repo ...
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Install package into live environment

Suppose one is running Ubuntu's live CD/DVD installer ISO. Now also suppose for whatever purpose, they need to install a package into that live environment (the in-RAM environment, not the ISO image). ...
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How to solve dpkg error based on geany-plugin-addons

Error that I got from the upgrading step: dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: loading files list file for package 'geany-plugin-addons': cannot read /var/lib/dpkg/info/geany-plugin-addons.list ...
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How to know which apt repository is slow?

I run sudo apt update and it took like 30 minutes and not even done, how to know which repository that are slow? Get:88 https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com jammy/main amd64 Packages [119 kB] Get:89 ...
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How to fix fix broken install command (due to zoom installation)

Installing zoom-meeting created a broken package. Since then I've tried everything, but nothing can be done. When I enter the command sudo apt-get --purge remove zoom I get these results: Reading ...
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sudo apt update & sudo apt-get update error plz help me [closed]

If I run sudo apt update && sudo apt-get update the result looks like this.
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Error during apt upgrade for NodeJS

I encounter this problem while trying to sudo apt upgrade my system: Preparing to unpack .../nodejs_18.17.1-deb-1nodesource1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking nodejs (18.17.1-deb-1nodesource1) over (12.22.9~...
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Resolving SSL/TLS Connection Issues on Ubuntu 22.04 - issues with Dell Library

I was having some issues with SSL connections. It turns out OpenSSL was using libraries provided by Dell which caused compatability issues. While trying to attach Ubuntu Pro, I encountered: user@host:~...
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Installation of obs failed [duplicate]

I am using the linux distro 22.04.2. I used the installation instructions from the obs site. When I attempted to install the repository, I got a notice that some packages were missing so older ones ...
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Unmet dependencies and broken packages error while I tried to upgrade Ubuntu 22.04 [duplicate]

sudo apt upgrade showing following error You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: libc-bin : Depends: libc6 (< ...
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