APT (Advanced Packaging Tool) is the standard software package management system for Debian and its derivatives.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Make and apt-get Have Stopped Working
So I downloaded the non-free broadcom driver(b44) for my debian install, however when I try to make it I get the following error:
make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/build ...
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Mono spits out too many errors after update, try to reinstall, more errors
I had errors with apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade, from mono mono, so I tried this instead:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall banshee banshee-extension-soundmenu ...
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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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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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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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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 do I install libgtk-3-dev in elementaryos?
I'm trying to compile pantheon-terminal. In order to do that I need to install some dependencies. I'm using elementaryos, just installed it yesterday (all software is upgraded).
One of the ...
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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?
