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No internet access for system services; however, browser access works
Unable to reload repos via apt-get, aptitude, or synaptic. Dropbox does not connect or sync. Pithos does not connect to pandora.com. Chrome and Firefox browsers do work fine.
I have been unable to ...
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aptitude current status warning
After installing some packages, i.e. sudo aptitude install pkg ... , there was a line of message at the end of the output:
Current status: 0 updates [-66].
What does it mean?
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What is sources.list?
I know sources.list is a file that contains a list of HTTP links pointing to some software downloads.
I would like to know more detailed explanations and various conventions followed in the ...
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How to stop apt from uninstalling the packages while updating
I using apt in terminal to install an update.
When i used apt-get -f install it showed
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 428 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get ...
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download packages for different distburtion with apt
I want to download a .deb package with it's dependencies for a different distribution.
I have many linux systems in my company, some like ubuntu 04/11, 10/11, 12/12 and debian 5, 6.
The command to ...
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How to undo sudo add-apt-repository?
I run
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/indicators
to install my-weather-indicator but it requires GTK3 and I don't want to proceed.
So I'd like to undo that command. I'd checked my ...
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Having Latest Versions of all Apps in Ubuntu 12.10
As we all know that Arch Linux repository is updated with all the latest releases of all the softwares. But in Ubuntu, The repo is not updated that often resulting in user using the older versions of ...
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Related to apt-get update command
I am using Ubuntu12.04 and I installed lots of pkg.
I want to update only one specific pkg.
I tried using
$apt-get update pkgname
E: The update command takes no arguments
so then I tried
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How to install a Debian package from internet?
I am trying to install Debian kernel sources using the following commands -
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
It prompts me to insert the Debian disk to continue the installation.
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How can I update to a newer version of Git using apt-get?
I've just set up a new machine with Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10 and then run
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install git
Now if I run git --version it tells me I have git version 1.7.5.4 but on my ...
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Debian: Upgraded to php 5.3 and lost phpcli, php-pear, etc
I upgraded to PHP5.3 using this tutorial: http://www.debiantutorials.com/how-to-install-upgrade-to-php-5-3-on-debian-lenny/
It removed the following packages:
Removing php-pear ...
Removing ...
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Reinstall versions of software not found in repositories
I recently installed the utouch-daily PPA, and it's given me some problems.
How can I revert to the packages available in the default repository? I've removed the repository from ...
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How can I completely reinstall mysql?
I had to reboot in the middle of a large data import. I only have one mysql database, which has now been corrupted.
How can I completely remove mysql and reinstall it? I've tried apt-get purge ...
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Can I use `apt-get` to upgrade to the latest version of Nagios?
At the time of this writing the latest version of Nagios is 3.3.1. I am running Ubuntu 10.04 and have used apt-get update; apt-get install nagios3 to end up with version 3.2.0.
I know there are a lot ...
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How can I regenerate the default '/etc/' config files?
I've removed nagios3 with apt-get remove nagios3 and then removed the files in by using the command sudo rm -R /etc/nagios*
Now when I run apt-get install nagios3 the config files (/etc/nagios3/*) ...
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What are the dangers with using “--assume-yes” with apt-get?
While making some improvements to my .bashrc file, I noticed a frequently used alias:
alias install='sudo apt-get -y install'
I wasn't familiar with the -y (aka --assume-yes or --yes) option with ...
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PHP package won't install correctly
Yesterday I did apt-get upgrade on my Debian/testing and broke a php5 package. I
even tried to remove & purge with apt and dpkg clean apt cache. When installed again clean, it fails with ...
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How to install/default to the command line version of Emacs?
I installed Emacs using sudo apt-get install emacs. The problem is that when I launch Emacs from the command line (e.g. emacs main.c) it opens Emacs with a GUI. I prefer the command line version which ...
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Convince apt-get *not* to use IPv6 method
The ISP I work at is setting up an internal IPv6 network in preparation for eventually connecting to the IPv6 internet. As a result, several of the servers in this network now try to connect to ...
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Is it possible to simulate installation of Debian packages, still marking them installed?
Here's what I would like. Start with a virtual system with no installed packages. Then I invoke a tool similar to apt-get to ask it to compute the dependencies and mark all the packages that would be ...
