APT (Advanced Packaging Tool) is the standard software package management system for Debian and its derivatives.
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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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What does deb-src mean in the sources.list?
I know I can download binary packages from repositories beginning with "deb", but what does deb-src do?
E.g.:
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty universe
in /etc/apt/sources.list in ...
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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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How do I hide packages from appearing in apt system?
The list of uninstalled packages appearing in my aptitude is massive, but is full of packages that I'm very sure I will never ever install. E.g. my laptop is using intel graphics, so it doesn't make ...
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apt-get - autoremove wants to uninstall Gnome
As empathy 2.30 in Debian Wheezy didn't meet all my preferences I tried out empathy 3.1 from experimental, using the command:
apt-get -t experimental install empathy
I had to find out, this version ...
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Problems with apt-get upgrade on Debian (404 Not Found)
I can't update my Debian Sid system.
on running the apt-get upgrade I am getting:
maciej@wladyslawa:/etc/apt$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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Why does 'apt-get install' suggest packages that I already have?
On Ubuntu Desktop 10.04.1, I have just run apt-get install to install a package. Amongst the list of suggested packages is ssh.
I'm confused, because I am sure that I already have ssh installed:
# ...
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Installing KDE on Ubuntu Natty from cdrom
Currently I have Ubuntu 11.04 - Natty, with Unity as the default environment; but I just want to install KDE along-side it, and I don't have perfect bandwidth. So I took Kubuntu 11.04 cdrom from my ...
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Link a dependency in Synaptic to the one already installed from source
I want to install SVN version of Quantum GIS and already I have a SVN version of GRASS GIS. As instructed in QGIS Wiki here, I added the qgis repository to my sources.list file. Now I am able to see ...
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List packages by installation date
How can I list installed packages by installation date? I installed a lot of stuff to compile a certain piece of code, and I want to get a list of the required packages, which are the ones I installed ...
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Can't install uwsgi on ubuntu
root@ip-10-194-97-94:~# apt-get install uwsgi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that ...
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Error installing gmrun via apt-get
$ sudo apt-get install gmrun
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
gmrun is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to ...
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Where can I find which packages are on each Debian Squeeze CD?
I just installed Debian Squeeze on my E1505. In order to get my wireless card working, I'm trying to install network-manager-gnome (I already installed firmware-iwlwifi)
My current question is, how ...
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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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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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Unmet dependencies
I am trying to compile vim and install with "--enable-pythoninterp" flag, which needs the python-dev package.
INFO
I obtained the vim source from ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-7.3.tar.bz2
Vim7.3 ...
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Is there a Debian security APT repository that allows access via ftp?
If I want security updates for Debian, I add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://security.debian.org <codename>/updates main
Is there a repository that allows the http to ...
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How often does Debian update its Stable repository?
Ever since release day (early Feb 2011), I haven't got any updates (apt-get update && apt-get upgrade). I've tried another repository (ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian), and it's the same thing.
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How to add an iso file as APT source
Say I have this line in "/etc/fstab":
/iso/apt.iso /mnt/apt iso9660 loop 0 0
And I run these commands as root:
mount --all
apt-cdrom add --no-mount --cdrom /mnt/apt
I expected the disk to be ...
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Fixing debian installer
I have a VPS with Debian GNU/Linux on it. I'm trying to install a PHP file manager so that people could access it and download stuff into a directory.
I don't have anything in my /bin about PHP so ...
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What is Fedora's equivalent of 'apt-get purge'?
In Debian, there's at least two ways to delete a package:
apt-get remove pkgname
apt-get purge pkgname
The first preserves system-wide config files (i.e. those found in "/etc"), while the second ...
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How to install some packages from “unstable” Debian on a computer running “stable” Debian?
On a computer running "stable" Debian, when trying to install a package which is in the unstable list on the Debian web site using the "aptitude install /unstable" command, I get output similar to ...
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Odd problem regarding 'apt-get update'
I was having some serious network troubles, and now running sudo apt-get update gives this error:
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Hit ftp://ftp.is.co.za experimental/contrib i386 Packages
Reading package lists... Error!
E: ...
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How to set default APT source
Running cat /etc/apt/apt.conf gives:
APT::Default-Release "stable";
I thought doing that would disallow the command apt-get install wajig to work, if a newer version was available anywhere but ...
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Where is the setting that sets Experimental repo to lower priority?
Suppose that I have enabled Experimental in my "/etc/apt/sources.list". When I need to install anything from it, I have to explicitly specify on the command:
apt-get install wajig
# vs
apt-get ...
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Why did 'apt-get install ffmpeg' fail?
I dont understand how or why apt-get install failed. It mentions ssmtp which is simple smtp which i use to send mail from my server to my google apps account. I dont understand what is wrong or how to ...
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Strange messages on (un)installation
A lot of times when I (un)install packages, I get strange warning messages. Here's a snippet:
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0 ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for ...
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Install MySQL from Bash Script
I'm coding a bash script to automate the process of deploying VPS servers but I'm having some trouble while trying to install MySQL from either aptitude/apt-get or yum, this is what I have so far:
if ...
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How to list currently not installed packages?
I'd like to output a list of all currently not installed packages (they are visible in Synaptic for example) using only shell commands. How do I do this?
Thanks!
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Check package version using apt-get/aptitude?
Before I install a package I'd like to know what version i would get. How do I check the version before installing using apt-get or aptitude on debian or ubuntu?
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What is yum equivalent of 'apt-get update'?
Debian's apt-get update fetches and updates the package index. Because I'm used to this way of doing things, I was surprised to find that yum update does all that and upgrades the system. This made ...
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I can't use or find the google debian unstable/sid repository
I'm trying to use the debian unstable/sid branch of the google repositories (deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ unstable non-free main), but I get errors:
Err "http://dl.google.com" ...
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What are pros/cons of dselect and apt-get?
I hardly ever hear anyone mention dselect, a deprecated package management front-end for Debian. Considering that it still exists as part of dpkg source, it must still have its uses. What are those? ...
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How to control the list of locales which are generated by APT?
Each time I install or operate in other means l10n-related packages, the APT system "rebuilds" a lot of English locales, which takes considerable time. Look at the APT log:
Configuring ...
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jetty repositories for Debian lenny 5.0?
This is my current sources.list, and I wish to install libjetty-java, libjetty-extra-java, and jetty, in that order. However, the packages are not found, and I resorted to downlaoding the debs from ...
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What's up with this 'gnome' package?
I have recently grown tired of the way Rhythmbox starts up every time I plug in my MP3 player. I know I could simply disable this, but I've decided to uninstall Rhythmbox instead. It's such a ...
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apt-get doesn't stop on Ctrl-c, what to do?
Occasionally I have connection problem with apt-get (typically because I use it behind a proxy and try to install/upgrade flash). I have been trying sending Ctrlc but it would not stop. I thought it ...
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Why does xargs cause apt-get to abort?
I'm trying to remove a list of packages from a file. I'm using the following command:
cat packages | xargs sudo apt-get remove
packages is my file containing a list of packages I want to remove. ...
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apt-get - How to complain on failed upgrade?
I'm trying to write a script to upgrade a bunch of remote machines and would like to verify that one package in particular is upgraded.
With yum, I could say yum upgrade specific-package, and it ...
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upgrade xdebug without using apt?
I'm running debian 5.0.6 and have installed xdebug 2.0.3 via aptitude. Now I want to install PHPUnit, and when trying to do it through pear, I get the error that PHPUnit wants a more recent xdebug
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How to unpack libc6 source on Hardy using debian/rules?
How do I unpack the libc6 source code on Hardy without building everything?
I run
apt-get source libc6
and I get
$ ls -1d glibc-2.7/*
glibc-2.7/debian
glibc-2.7/glibc-2.7.tar.bz2
...
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What is the preferred way to install new versions of software?
I have installed Ubuntu Server 10.10 and now I want to install some software like PostgreSQL, Nginx and PHP. But what is the preferred way to get the latest stable version of the software?
E.g I ...
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Configuring a package that was downloaded using apt-get
I have to reconfigure PHP with some extra options but since I downloaded it on Ubuntu using apt-get I can't seem to find the source anywhere (php -i points the source to a tmp folder which no longer ...
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how to work around APT's “Release file expired” problem on a local mirror
I have a local mirror (created with debmirror), and when I try to do a cache update (apt-get update) after a few days, I get this:
E: Release file expired, ignoring ...
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What is the real difference between “apt-get” and “aptitude”? (How about “wajig”?)
I know that both apt-get and aptitude are command line package management interfaces on Debian derived Linux, with different options, but I'm still somewhat confused. Under the hood, aren't they ...
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apt-get or aptitude [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the real difference between “apt-get” and “aptitude”? (How about “wajig”?)
I'm new in Linux (Ubuntu) world. When I need 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 ...
