APT (Advanced Packaging Tool) is the standard software package management system for Debian and its derivatives.
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apt installing more packages than specified as dependencies
I was trying to install texmaker from the repository. For installing the texlive i followed the steps described here. For this the control file I used is this. It has the file texlive-binaries in it.
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How to install Suggests dependencies of a package
If I want to install a package and its Suggests dependencies, I run:
$ sudo apt-get --install-suggests install <package name>
However, if <package name> is already installed, and not ...
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download packages for different distribution 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: Ubuntu 11.04, 11.10, 12.10, and Debian 5 and 6.
The command to ...
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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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Why I was able to fix a broken package with aptitude but I could not with either apt-get or synaptic?
Yesterday I upgraded my Debian Testing and Audacious stopped to work. Troubleshooting I found that the problem was that it was updated to a recent version but the needed plugins were not. I tried to ...
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How do I find out where the contents of a package are installed?
I ran into this bug, where Cantor can't find the sage backend if both are installed through the ubuntu package system. I can get around this bug if I know the path to the sage executable, but even ...
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Including pending update list in motd
How would you include the list and / or count of pending updates in the welcome banner?
Eg.
username: User
password: *****
Hi 'User', welcome on 'localhost'
There are 8 pending updates, you need to ...
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Small update.. Now cannot download/update
Earlier today I was ssh'ing into my box and discovered that the internal IP had changed from what it was, I decided I wanted to make this static and found a tutorial (kind of) how to:
nano ...
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Generating a list of alternative packages with apt tools
Given a package how can I list all possible packages that are alternatives to this package?
In the alternate, how can I tell if a package or one of it's alternates is installed?
Using something in ...
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libpam-ck-connector causing apt-get to fail
I used apt-get autoremove on my Debian server and now apt-get won't install or remove anything as it keeps trying but failing to remove libpam-ck-connector.
When trying to install anything… ...
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hook a script to apt-get
I have /tmp on a separate partition, and mounted with noexec. I am using Debian.
The installation of some packages fails, because the post-installation scripts of some packages need to run from /tmp.
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I cannot install new packages: “Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock”
I am new to Linux (installed Ubuntu for the first time yesterday), and have never dealt with any unix-based OS. I started using Linux for the sole purpose of collaborating code with my partners via ...
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Unable to install ia32-libs in Debian Wheezy
I was trying to install ia32-libs in Debian Wheezy. I got the error
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
ia32-libs : Depends: ia32-libs-i386 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct ...
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Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libstdc++6' on Nexenta
My original goal was setup service-network-ssh on Nexenta Illumos. As a result of the command
apt-get install service-network-ssh
I got the following message
Reading package lists...
Building ...
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List available updates but do not install them
I want my cron-run reporting script to notify me in case there are updates for my packages. Is the a way to make apt-get give me the list of available updates but don't do anything more?
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Install using synaptic ignoring dependencies
I was trying to install texmaker a latex editor in my debian system from synaptic. It shows in the dependency list texlive-base, texlive-common. etc as dependencies. But I have already installed ...
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apt-get error 503
I tried installing pyqt4-dev-tools on my machine using the following command:
sudo apt-get install pyqt4-dev-tools
after a few prompts the installation is aborted with the following message:
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Is there a clang-snapshot?
I've just discovered the wonderful gcc-snapshot package for Ubuntu. I don't see a clang-snapshot or llvm-snapshot package though. Is there an equivalent for clang?
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Unable to install skype on LMDE,how to resolve these dependencies?
I have downloaded "multiarch" .deb file for latest skype and unable to install it on latest version of LMDE (linux mint debian edition Xfce x86_64). e.g
step one :
sudo dpkg -i ...
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Finding yum equivalents of apt repositories?
I have code to setup an Ubuntu server that relies on apt-get. It has lots of packages as documented on our project wiki, for example these: development environment and the ruby dependencies.
However, ...
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Updates on Chrubuntu suddenly stopped working
Okay, I don't normally like asking for help, but I cannot find a way round this problem.
I installed Chrubuntu last Saturday and things worked reasonably well. I was able to update and install ...
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How to remove metapackage entirely in Debian
Is there any way to remove meta package and all its packages? Subset of metapackage is packages which don't depend on metapackage by all means. That's why if remove one metapackage only the package's ...
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Why is this OR dependency not working as I expected
I tried to remove python2.6 from my Debian system:
$ sudo apt-get purge python2.6
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following ...
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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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Get list of packages that provide (APT)
How can I generate a list of packages that the specific package provides using the apt-family?
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The dependency isn't installed
I'm testing my .deb package and cannot find out why it doesn't install the dependencies:
The control file's Depends line is:
Depends: zend-grid-module, postgresql-8.4, ${shlibs:Depends}, ...
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What distro for my PowerBook G4?
I've got an old PowerBook G4 with a 1333 MHz CPU and 1.25 GB RAM.
What are some good distro to use? I tried Yellow Dog and Fedora (which didn't work), but I would prefer something more Debian-like, ...
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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 ...
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I can't install Mono because something's wrong with the kernel (I think)
$ sudo apt-get install mono-runtime
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The ...
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apt-get won't install: dpkg: files list for package 'gnome-themes-standard-data' is not a regular file
I'm trying to install packages to get a webcam stream running on my raspberry pi. All of a sudden, apt-get is totally busted -- every time I try to install, reinstall or purge something that might fix ...
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How can I forcibly remove a package from Ubuntu by hand?
I posted this on ServerFault and got some helpful-looking questions, but no answer in terms of what can I do. What, on a low level, can I do to completely exorcise a package that is jamming aptitude ...
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What does apt need to be healed of a bad setup?
I made a couple of earlier posts regarding a libssl-dev that, it seemed, was not removable. Some of the replies touched on that there was a problem with apt, and now that someone posted the command to ...
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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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Where can I check what was updated on the last update?
Once in a while, when updating my system after reboot I got a black screen. The problem seems to bee ATI drivers, but it's weird because even TTYs do not work.
For fix it I reboot on recovery mode, ...
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How do I update my Debian kernel?
Essentially I have an Ubuntu laptop and a board running Debian. I have installed the same kernel module and a utility for managing it on each, using aptitude.
Unfortunately, the versions of the ...
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Finding all “essential” packages with apt
When I run synaptic, there are certain packages which synaptic treats as "essential". For example, if I select bash for removal, I will be warned that bash is an "essential package". If I then press ...
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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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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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Get diff changes between original files installed with apt and current files
I installed php5-fpm package using apt; then I made some changes to the PHP configuration files.
Now I would get the diffs between the original files versions (the ones of the package installed) and ...
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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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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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Weird issue with unmet dependencies when cloning package states from earlier installation on same machine
I've been doing the usual routine of saving the package selections and also marking the packages as auto or manual as outlined in the question and answer here: Restoring all data from backup of dpkg ...
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Upgrade a single package from a target release
In Debian Squeeze I have installed a packageX from debian-backports.
Q1: When I apt-get dist-upgrade or aptitude full-upgrade, what release is checked for updates for packageX? debian-backports or ...
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How to run a command after apt-get upgrade
Recently I came across the nice checkrestart tool, that checks if running processes use an outdated version of a recently updated library and would need a restart to load them with the updated lib. At ...
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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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When does “apt-get install” ask me to confirm whether I want to continue or not?
Sometimes "apt-get install" asks me "Do you want to continue [Y/n]?":
root@T43:~# apt-get install chmsee
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... ...
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How does APT deal with different programs with the same name?
I decided to finally learn vi and as I was doing that I realized that vi wasn't behaving as I expected. I learned from another post that this was because, on Ubuntu, vim-tiny is installed by default.
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Apt-cache search only specified source
I use backtrack and I have a Packages.gz file with some packages on my hard drive. I want to use "apt-cache search" to search only the folder which contain Packages.gz. Is this possible?
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apt-proxy replacement/alternative on Debian
I missed that apt-proxy is not available anymore.
What are my alternatives?
Google didn't give me anything useful expect years old stuff.
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How to install google chrome with apt-get?
My Linux version is Ubuntu:
> cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=jaunty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.04"
running as virtual machine.
I did as said ...
