APT (Advanced Packaging Tool) is the standard software package management system for Debian and its derivatives.
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Resolving unmet installation dependencies; file system problems
Somehow part of my ext3 file system got corrupted and large portions of my python installation got all sorts of messed up. The only thing I could notice immediately was Python raising a missing module ...
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build-dep firefox not working on Linux Mint
I'm on the latest Linux Mint 12. In order to compile Firefox I need to do a
sudo apt-get build-dep firefox
which isn't working and showing the following error:
$ sudo apt-get build-dep firefox
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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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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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How to make apt-get accept new config files in an unattended install of debian from Repo
I am writing a script for a unattended install of a package that is in our repo, it is a software package with one of Debian's marked config files.
Is there any option that I can pass to ...
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Using the apt package manager refuse an update for a specific package
I am attempting to upgrade a few packages using the apt package manager. However there is a specific package in the list that I don't want to upgrade. In fact I don't want anyone to ever upgrade it. ...
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Is it possible to determine what is inside Debian package without installing it?
I need a markdown library for development - based on package names I could not understand which one I should install...
den@playground:~$ sudo aptitude search markdown
p html2markdown ...
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In debian based systems, how do we purge configuration files of packages that have already been uninstalled?
To be more specific, I would like to do the equivalent of adding the --purge flag to the following command
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge [package name]
to packages that are no longer on the ...
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Why does installing python-minimal package also grab the python package on Debian?
From running:
apt-cache depends python2.6-minimal | grep Depends
and
apt-cache depends python2.6 | grep Depends
it looks like python2.6 depends on python2.6-minimal and a lot more.
However, ...
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Are bsdutils, coreutils, and busybox all necessary in a Debian install?
I first installed Debian with a netinst CD without networking, then edited /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the main repository, then ran dhclient eth0 to set up networking. Then I installed less. ...
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Setting up a minimal apt-get environment
I would like to set up a minimal environment with apt-get then selectively install packages one at a time.
My understanding is that this is basically what the Debian installer does. Is this ...
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Installing git “sudo: apt-get: command not found”
I am trying to install git. I run the following command:
sudo apt-get install git-core git-gui git-doc
But receive the following error:
sudo: apt-get: command not found
What should I do?
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problems installing lcov on Debian 6
I have been stuck for a few hours trying to install lcov on a debian 6 box.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
What I have tried the following in the command line:
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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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Fixing broken packages in a Debian testing distribution
I'm playing around with Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) in a VirtualBox instance to try it out and see if it'd be good for a main operating system for me. I'm pretty competent with most system ...
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Debian: How to delay configuration when installing/upgrading?
One of my Debian systems is rarely upgraded. So when it is time to upgrade, there are loads of packages. Right now I basically have to monitor the upgrade, because every 50 packages or so there is a ...
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Debian squeeze (stable) broken packages after installing something from wheezy (testing)
root@server:/home/ante# apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may ...
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How can I view the list of packages that were “suggested” by apt?
When installing a package using apt-get install package a list of "Suggested packages" is displayed. What command can be used to print it again?
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How to install non-outdated nvidia drivers using apt-get?
I tried using apt-get install nvidia-current after installation
I got 280.13 version, which is not the latest version(290.10).
so how can i force apt-get to download the latest driver?
Edit:
I'm ...
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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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How to uninstall java on Linux Mint 12
Today, I downloaded the latest java jre which is a .bin file
By mistake, I installed it on my desktop by running ./jre. I want to remove this installation, move the .bin file to somewhere else and ...
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Mastering apt-get
I'd like to learn about apt-get so nothing bad can surprise me. I was looking for some tutorials but have found nothing that teaches it carefully including its internals. I found this article but it's ...
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How and where to install a headers only library?
I like to install gource which requires libglm-dev installed on the system. I am using Ubuntu 10.10. Maverick. The newest sources of the headers only library I found is not available for apt-get. ...
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“apt-get -f install” Fails Due to “dpkg” Error Code:
When I run apt-get -f install, I get the following abnormal output:
Setting up cups (1.5.0-8) ...
start: Job failed to start
invoke-rc.d: initscript cups, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error ...
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Removing generic kernel updates from aptitude post custom kernel install
I've updated my Mint 12 system to be running a kernel built from Linus' git repo. Now, whenever I run apt-get upgrade, I see that linux*-generic are still on the update list (they're being "kept ...
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Using apt or aptitude to get version information about an uninstalled package?
I'm looking to install a package, but I'd like to make sure that I can't get a more recent version than, e.g., a PPA.
Is there an aptitude or apt-get command that will enable me to input a package ...
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List installed meta packages in APT
Meta packages are packages that do not install anything by themselfs, but are dependent on other packages. How do I list the installed meta packages on my system?
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List (recursive) dependencies of the installed packages in APT
For each package I have installed I would like to know which packages would be installed if I uninstall it. An example of the output I need is (package: list of deps):
abc: foo bar
bcd: baz abc
bdd: ...
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How do I find installed packages that have no install candidate?
I'd like to retrieve a list of installed packages that have no install candidate (e.g., because I removed an apt source file entry). How would I do that on Debian-based systems?
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How to enable an federated storage engine in the Debian MySQL package?
How would I enable an extra (in this case FEDERATED) storage engine in the mysql-server-5.1 package from Debian?
I've installed mysql-server-5.1 via apt-get. But the SHOW ENGINES shows that federated ...
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Debian PowerBook G4 WiFi Driver
How do I get wifi to work on my powerbook g4 with xfce debian? I have tried sudo apt-get install bcm43xx-fwcutter but it comes up with E: Unable to locate package bcm43xx-fwcutter. What do I do?
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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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Restore /etc/ configuration files from the default
Is there a way to replace /etc configuration files from a package, overwriting my local changes? I've tried apt-get install --reinstall mypackage but it doesn't update the files.
How can I do this?
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How can I generate a DEB from an installed package?
I've done this in the past before but I can't remember how. I'd like to take an installed package on one machine, create an installable deb from it, then send that deb over to another machine. How can ...
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Can sources.list only be updated by hand?
I'm currently running Linux Mint. I remember that under Ubuntu, whenever a new release comes out, it prompts you with a choice of whether to upgrade or not. It seems like this is not happening in ...
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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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Increasing the size limit for /var/cache/apt/archives
I have 2 systems running Debian at home and I am trying to minimize the bandwidth use while upgrading the packages. How can I increase the size limit of the cache, so that I could just copy the ...
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apt-get prompts for CDs when installing packages, how do I make it stop?
I used ubuntu linux before, and I installed debian OS on my labtop using DVDs that I burned. But when I'm trying to use apt-get to install software, the system always asks me to insert disk to ...
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How to reinstall apt on Debian?
I accidently removed apt-get from my Debian system by issuing:
dpkg --force-depends --purge apt
How can I reinstall it?
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apt-get : no installation candidate for libxul-dev
When I'm installing libxul-dev I end with this error message:
$ sudo apt-get install libxul-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package ...
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I am trying to install Google Chrome on Linux Mint 7
It seems like Jaunty is not being maintained anymore. When trying to install the chrome package:
steven@steven-desktop ~/Desktop $ sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb
Selecting ...
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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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listing packages in Debian, a la `dpkg -l`, but including the package origin/source
I want to list all packages of the form
$ dpkg -l libav\*
but in addition to this output, I would like the origin/source (I'm not sure of the preferred term) of each package. If the package doesn't ...
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Virtual package chromium missing after dist-upgrade from squeeze to sid
I recently did a dist-upgrade from debian squeeze to sid. At first this seemed to work correctly, but now it seems my local apt cache might be in an unusual state, as I seem to be unable to install ...
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apt: reinstall older version of a package without altering dependent packages
I have got some problem with sound. In order to investigate the problem I tried to reinstall older version of package libasound2 (I have upgraded it recently). I typed apt-get install ...
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How can I prevent Apt-Get from autoremoving packages? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
apt-get - autoremove wants to uninstall Gnome
I'm running Debian@ [edit: kernel] 3.0 with Gnome.
apt-get wants to autoremove dozens of packages. How can I prevent it ...
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The difference between deb versus deb-src in sources.list
I don't understand the difference between these two lines in my sources.list, please explain:
deb http://mirror.optus.net/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
versus
deb-src ...
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Apt/Aptitude: how to filter packages that are impossible to install?
Especially when running Sid, there are many packages that become non-installable as the dependencies change ABI versions, or the dependencies themselves may have been dropped. It'd be good to know how ...
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apt-get equivalent of yum localinstall
When using Fedora I usually use yum localinstall as a way to install a rpm obtained outside the distribution repositories. I can't find an equivalent option in the apt-get man page. I'm running Ubuntu ...
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Conflict? dpkg, apt, apt-get, aptitude, and synaptic
So, I ssh into a (very) remote Ubuntu 10.4 server to do some admin and web dev+design. And I was looking through the various package manager options.
There's a lot.
The big ones are dpkg, apt, ...
