Questions tagged [apt]
For questions about the use, design, function etc. of APT (Advanced Packaging Tool), the standard software package management system for Debian and its derivatives.
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Failing to install PyPi package gdown via py2dsp
On Debian-like/apt-based distributions, instead of installing Python packaged system-wide with pip install --system, we use APT packages. Here:
Install a Python package on Debian/Devuan when apt has ...
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Debian - `apt` showing out-of-date package for `stable` release
I'm running Debian 12 and noticed the following output:
$ apt list --all-versions firefox-esr
Listing... Done
firefox-esr/unstable 115.5.0esr-1 amd64
firefox-esr/stable-security 115.5.0esr-1~deb12u1 ...
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How to upgrade Debian 11 to Debian 12?
This question might sound very simple, but I can't find the command to upgrade my Debian 11 to 12.
I tried apt update and apt upgrade and apt dist-upgrade and apt full-upgrade and what not.
None of ...
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Repository [VSCode] changed its 'Origin' value from 'code stable' to 'Pulp 3' ..?
Today I received a rather disturbing message from VS Code repo while running my customized script, sorry I don't have it saved in the pure original form, but only later when tried to run as root:
apt ...
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I'm using kali and it's showing this notification after sudo apt update [duplicate]
Notification after sudo apt update
N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'stable/binary-i386/Packages' as
repository 'https://download.docker.com/linux/debian bullseye InRelease'
doesn't support ...
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Where should I add contrib and non-free in Debian Bookworm?
I had this Dockerfile in which I wanted to install translate-shell and for that reason I had to add the contrib non-free to the end of source lines in /etc/apt/source.list.
FROM node:lts-bookworm-slim
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libudev not found in pkg-config search path in GitHub actions ubuntu-latest environment
I'm setting up CI for a Rust application I'm developing that (indirectly) depends on the libudev-sys crate. Part of this CI means building my crate, which means also building libudev-sys.
When the ...
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How to have R 4.1 on Debian 11? Debian 11 won't update
Debian 11 only updates to R 4.0.4.
I have packages that require at least R 4.1.0 to be installed.
I already tried adding the official R repository to the source list as the official website tells to ...
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How do I determine the apt package name for a given PyPI package?
Suppose I want to install a Python package system-wide on a Debian/Devuan system. Some PyPI packages have DEB packages available via the repository's apt sources, with package names prefixed by ...
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apt - install noarch package dependency from foreign architecture
Running Debian-11-amd64 on low-end devices I prefer installing the 32 bit version of the chromium browser to save some RAM (having called dpkg --add-architecture i386):
apt install chromium:i386
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How can I uninstall part of a package?
I have installed the BSD games package. Many of the games are awful or broken, so I wish to uninstall some of them without uninstalling others. Is there an easy way to do that? Currently, I'm sudo ...
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Unable to install any packages Ubuntu 23.10
All of a sudden, I am unable to install anything successfully with apt with the below error:
The following packages will be upgraded:
linux-headers-6.5.0-10-generic
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 ...
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Debian (and ubuntu) having throubles in downloading apt-get updates if I use https
As stated in the previous question: How can i force apt-get or apt to use only https connections
deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main
deb https://security.debian.org/debian-security ...
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Trouble using apt with kali linux system wide proxy
Hello I apologize in advance, I am very new to Linux:
To preface, I am using PdaNet+ to use a wifi hotspot which requires me to use a proxy. I'm easily able to configure it into Firefox but I'm unable ...
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How to configure Termux APT repositories in Debian?
I'm interested to configure the Termux repositories on a Debian system. However I got stuck on some point. Any help would be appreciated.
Premise
My scenario is as follows. I have an Android device ...
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If I have two versions of python3 installed on my machine (ie: 3.11.2 and 3.12), how do I set the default version to use when running python scripts?
I installed the earlier version (3.11.2) normally using apt package manager and the later version (3.12) manually from source. When I execute python scripts like so:
./python_script.py
The script ...
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Ubuntu's default Firefox does not play videos on after Ubuntu upgrade
A few days ago Ubuntu (22.04 LTS) showed me a message saying I can upgrade my OS (or something along those lines). I click on agree (any button that would let me proceed) and the upgrade took place (...
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dnscrypt-proxy is missing from debian 12, going to install it via sid?
Given this discussion: https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/discussions/2410
It seems that dnscrypt-proxy has a dependency called powerman used only for testing and not useful in the main ...
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Is curlftpfs missing in debian 12?
Tried to install curlftpfs in debian 12 says that the package is missing.
While I understand that the package is still not active developed I use often curlftpfs inside some virtual machines transfer ...
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Debian : any downsides of totally replacing /etc/apt/sources.list by /etc/apt/sources.list.d/some_equivalent_files.list?
We have set up an local apt repository cache server, we thus have began to automate the setup of the /etc/apt/sources.list file and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/our_custom_files.list of our Debian 10+11+12 ...
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Blacklisting a specific packages from updating using UnattendedUpgrades in Debian
I am trying to prevent updates of few packages from updating automatically by unattended upgrades in Debian 12:
The part of /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades for blacklisting by default is ...
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zlib not available error in spite of the package already installed
I am trying to install pip through -
python3 get-pip.py
but it is giving zlib not available error.
I have tried following commands -
sudo apt install zlib1g-dev [OUTPUT: zlib1g-dev is already the ...
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apt: why install older version of a package when newer is available via sources.list?
I did a reperformance. With clean boot of liveISO. It showed that removing entry from file in /etc/apt/preferences.d:
Package: *
Pin: release o=linuxmint,c=upstream
Pin-Priority: 700
changes the ...
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Debian Multi-Version Sources - Why not?
On debian (or raspbian), sometimes "testing" has missing packages or dependencies as its still in development, unlike "stable" where usually everything is super compatible/stable.
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Why suddenly apt-get output became colored?
I'm trying to get wine. I've been doing instructions from https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu and on sudo apt update I've seen "E: The repository 'cdrom ..." with red "E". Just several ...
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Unable to locate package pdk on debian
I am trying to install the external package pdk on debian bullseye. Following the official instructions I executed the following:
wget https://apt.puppet.com/puppet-tools-release-bullseye.deb
dpkg -i ...
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What exactly does "apt purge ?config-files" do?
I read this command in a posting about Raspberry. With a web search, I found several Ask Ubuntu answers, but I don't know the details of this command.
apt purge ?config-files
What does this do, ...
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I have 2 versions of Emacs installed in Debian. How do I remove one of them?
This is a (self contained) follow up query to this query:
Location of Emacs 29 in a Debian 12 system
I am on Debian 12.
First I installed the emacs in Debian 12 which defaults to emacs 28.2.
Then I ...
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Unplanned Debian Upgrade
I would guess this question has been answered before. If so, please point me to the link to that topic
I have a computer system purchased from Zareason before they closed their doors.
It originally ...
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Yet another dependency problem during wine install on Devuan 5
Using Devuan 5, trying to install wine-staging using the WineHQ repositories gives a dependency error : winehq-staging needs wine-staging.
(if you really need the precise error when running sudo apt ...
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For Google Cloud's debian repository, which distribution corresponds to Debian Testing (currently, Trixie)?
On Debian Testing (currently called Trixie), I would like to install the google-cloud-cli and google-cloud-sdk-gke-gcloud-auth-plugin packages that Google Cloud offers through its debian (package ...
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Debian: How to mirror a minor version that is not the current one
I use Debians apt-mirror to create a local mirror.
Here's the entry in /etc/apt/mirror.list for getting lastest Debian 11 - that is 11.7.
deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian bullseye main
What to do ...
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Gnome installation on Debian 12 fails [duplicate]
When i start the PC the graphical desktop ( gnome ) does not start.
If run startx the PC crash and i need to reboot it.
Looking at the apt log i found that something have uninstalled my gnome package:
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Debian apt, gpg keys and constant overwriting of signed-by
The apt-key has been depreciated. E.g. here they describe how to migrate to gpg keys. Great but it works for a month or so until the sources.list file gets overwritten. Why or how it gets overwritten, ...
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Problems with installing pycryptodome
I have modified my thinkpad's BIOS to remove the wifi whitelist and plan to flash the modified bios back to the eeprom. To do that I have to use a tool called thinkpad-uefi-sign which signs the image ...
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Unattended-Upgrades configuration for custom repo only
OS: LMDE 5 (based on Debian 11 Bullseye)
To keep the system tidy, I use separate files to overrides the original distribution/developer configuration files wherever possible. This also prevents ...
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harfbuzz downgrade issues
My system crashed due to a harfbuzz related incompatibility. So I tried to downgrade the harfbuzz packages to version 2.7.4-1, and I got a strange result! More than 500 packages will be deleted with ...
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Unable to upgrade from Ubuntu 22.10 - packages have been kept back: libgd-dev libgd3 libgd3:i386
I'm a layman when it comes to using Linux/Ubuntu. I'm on Ubuntu 22.10 unable to uprade. I tried all that I could find on internet:
apt update
apt upgrade
apt full-upgrade
Here is the log:
hp@hp-...
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GPG key could not be added by apt-key on Ubuntu 20.04
I can not add the gpg key for apt repository into keychain. But I can add it through the gpg --import
When I try to add it with apt-key add, it just doesn't appear there, and I get no obvious error:
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Debian+Gnome Remove Libreoffice
Is there no way to remove libreoffice* without removing gnome?
If i type sudo apt purge libreoffice*
It automatically also wants to remove gnome
Is there a solution to this?
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Error 404 appears when running apt-get update. Debian [duplicate]
When I run the docker-compose build command, the Dockerfile does not build and I get the following error:
[app 2/21] RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y zlib1g-dev libzip-dev libonig-dev ...
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Debian apt issue (not found and deb12u1)
I wanted to install texmaker the other day but I ran into an issue : it downloaded 500mb but it told me it could not find a few dependencies, for instance
Err : 4 http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/...
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`apt upgrade` or 'apt full-upgrade'?
In a fresh installed Ubuntu, which command (apt upgrade or apt full-upgrade after apt update) can make my Ubuntu more safe from hackers or install more security patches? The security is more important ...
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libc-bin post install script failing with error code 135
I am running ParrotOS on a bootable USB drive. I ran apt update and it failed with the output:
$sudo apt upgrade
APT on Parrot behaves differently than Debian.
apt upgrade is equivalent to apt full-...
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Getting list of user-modified system files within subtree
Say that I know, that I updated some files in /etc/pam.d Can someone recommend command to get list of all files which differs from their last repository version? I used to have it, but cannot find it ...
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Kali Linux Purple: Unable to install 'libgconf-2-4' package
I am attempting to install Spotify and Discord on my Kali Linux (Purple Edition) using apt install <package name/deb file>.
However i ran into dependency issues. Typically, Kali would install ...
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Problem with apt public keys in docker image building
I have problem after upgrading PHP image from 8.0 to PHP image 8.1 and on stackoverflow they sent me there
this is my dockerfile:
FROM php:8.1-apache AS apache
RUN a2enmod rewrite
WORKDIR /bin
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Feed input to apt install
I'm trying to install python3.9 in a Dockerfile based on ubuntu:20.04. When I run apt -y install python3.9 manually, it prompts me for the geographic area and the city corresponding to my time zone. ...
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Reinstalling dpkg and apt on Debian 12 [duplicate]
How to completely reinstall dpkg and its apt front-end?
I tried to run sudo apt remove virtualbox , and my output was:
Reading list of packages ... done
Dependencies tree generation ... done
Reading ...
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How to unistalled Go tools in Linux using command line?
I installed cf using
go get github.com/xalanq/cf-tool
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/xalanq/cf-tool
go build -ldflags "-s -w" cf.go
cf --version
output: Codeforces Tool (cf) v1.0.0
I tried to ...
