Questions tagged [dpkg]
The base software for Debian/Ubuntu/Mint package management. Use this tag for questions about dpkg and its companion utilities and the .deb file format.
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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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Errors when unpacking binutils-common
So when i update kali linux with sudo apt update it shows this
Get:1 file:/run/live/medium kali-last-snapshot InRelease
Ign:1 file:/run/live/medium kali-last-snapshot InRelease
Get:2 file:/run/live/...
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A shorter way to list all packages matching a string
When I search for a list of packages, I usually use
dpkg -l|grep string|cut -d" " -f3|xargs
libdouble-conversion3:amd64 libestr0:amd64 libeval-closure-perl
libio-stringy-perl libunistring2:...
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building Debian package from Buster fails on Bookworm
I need to use older version of linphone on Debian 12.
The version in bookworm is 4.4.10-3, and I actually need 3.12.0, which is available in Buster.
On my bookworm build machine, I changed the sources,...
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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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Debian upgrade failed - now locked out of sudo
I was trying to upgrade a VPS from Buster to Bookworm.
I followed these steps:
44 20/Aug - 21:26:11 sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
45 20/Aug - 21:26:38 sudo apt --purge ...
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How to build a chroot environment with dpkg --root
I'm trying to build an extremely minimal chroot environment and / or docker base image with strictly only the packages installed to support the one binary I want to run inside. I'm not interested in ...
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Do you have to install newer Debian versions to use newer software?
I am still on Debian Buster, which has old libraries in its repository.
I am unable to use newer software, because for example, they require a libc.so.6 library with version GLIBC_2.30, which doesn't ...
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dpkg: overwrite file in another package
I am making a DEB package that relies on avahi-daemon.
I need to set its configuration, but I got this error message:
trying to overwrite '/etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf', which is also in package avahi-...
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apt/dpkg not working due to linux-image/firmware problems
I recently installed Debian 12. Apt was working, but was complaining about a not fully configured linux-image. I tried to remove the image and upgrade, but now I'm unable to us apt or dpkg to remove ...
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How can I get the current apt command called in a DPkg::Pre-Invoke script?
I understand I can use DPkg::Pre-Invoke to run a script/command before apt does it's thing.
DPkg::Pre-Invoke { "/tmp/pre-invoke.sh"; };
In my script, I want to get the full apt command that ...
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Manually installing packages in thin read-only distributions
I am trying to install our product in a NoTouchOS - a Raspberry Pi thin client OS.
Given the fact it is a thin client, many libraries do not come out-of-the-box, such as apt, sudo...
I am trying to ...
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why this package is not proposed to me to remove?
As I understand it, if a package is auto-installed and has no other packages depending on it, the system should offer to remove it.
why doesn't this happen in this case?
:~$ sudo apt list --installed |...
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After upgrading to Debian 12, duplicated files in /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ and /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
I just upgraded my system from Debian 11 to 12, by following this guide from cyberciti. This system has been kept up-to-date for more than 9 years, so it has been through at least 4 major upgrades (...
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How to reinstall / repair entire Debian through rescue mode after upgrade failure without wipe the disk?
I followed this wiki tried to upgrade Debian 10 to 11 then 12, but form some reason some part messed up the system and now it can't boot (kernel panic) and entire system messed up: no apt available, ...
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Debian very unstable after disastrous upgrade - how to recover GRUB, missing executables and more?
I upgraded Debian stable from 11 to 12 today by sudo apt-get upgrade. Thousands of packages were downloaded. However while packages were being upgraded the system froze. I manually shutdown by ...
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Differences between gcc and gcc-X
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS and when I use dpkg -l command, the result contains the following entries:
ii gcc 4:7.4.0-1ubu amd64 GNU C compiler
ii gcc-7 7.5.0-3ubunt ...
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How to install a Debian package in a target directory manually
I would like to learn how to manually install a Debian package (e.g., a .deb file) into a specific directory, such as /targetdir, as if it were the root. Later, I would like to relocate the ...
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Find correct license when several binaries share the same copyright file
I'm trying to automatically obtain a list of licenses of installed packages in my Debian distribution. I'm doing so by scanning the copyright files in /usr/share/doc/as explained in the answers to ...
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Installing .deb package twice calls postrm
I am toubleshooting a basic .deb package built from the include script below, specifically its operation if it is installed twice via dpkg -i <package-name>. I found that the postrm script is ...
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How does this script actually create the new user's directory structure
I'm looking at the bash script included below. It accepts a couple of command line arguments and creates a .deb package that, when executed, using the sudo dpkg -i created-file.deb command, a new ...
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dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libecryptfs1'
OS: Linux Mint 20.3
I usually get this error whenever I do sudo apt update.
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libecryptfs1' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
But it ...
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How to remove APT and dpkg from a Debian installation?
A couple of years ago I made a live-image for personal uses (a mixture of use cases) using debootstrap, chroot, and squashfs-tools
Now i want to re-design the distro, update the software in it, add ...
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sbuild leading to Can't opendir(): Operation not permitted
I am running sbuild command by treating the current debianized source directory as the argument. This is the behaviour when we just run sbuild without specifying an argument. I have added the user (in ...
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How to build GNU Hello .deb?
I can't seem to work out how to build GNU Hello on Ubuntu 22.04. To reproduce, start a Docker container using docker run --interactive --rm --tty ubuntu:22.04, then run the following:
apt-get update
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Is there a way to "catch" /usr/bin/dpkg errors in a CI script and retry a few times?
I have a multi-stage, multi-arch Docker build process using Docker's debian:latest image and the Chromium/Firefox packages from Debian Sid. Sometimes when building the images, something fails with ...
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Accidentally delete DPKG (exclui sem querer o DPKG)
E: Sub-processo dpkg --set-selections retornou um código de erro (100)
E: Sub-process dpkg --set-selections returned an error code (100)
E: Couldn't clean the currently selected dpkg states
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dpkg: error processing package install-info
I updated to Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.4.0-144-generic x86_64) and when I ran a couple troubleshooting updates, apt-get update, I received an error regarding the following code. I went to a ...
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Is there a flatpak command equivalent to "dpkg --get-selections"?
When I make a backup, I have a script that I've written to document packages that have been installed. I rather like that dpkg can use the list generated by the --get-selections option as a source for ...
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Package availible but not in dpkg.log
I need to know when a package was installed.
I search /var/log/dpkg.log* for that and search for the installation-entry.
Sometimes I have a package installed that is not part of the log. I never ...
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DKMS Modules Installation Error - Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
I am getting the following error everytime I do $sudo apt upgrade
The following packages have been kept back:
libegl-mesa0 libgbm1 libgl1-mesa-dri libglapi-mesa libglx-mesa0 libgoa-backend-1.0-1
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Installing pyasn to Kali produces error "python 2.7 breaks python-pyasn1 and is installed"
sudo dpkg -i python-pyasn1_0.4.2-3build1_all.deb
I try to depackage this deb, yet I am on kali (debian) I get error
python 2.7 breaks python-pyasn1 and is installed
dpkg: error processing package ...
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How do I check package version for a given distribution version from the cli?
Related: How do I check package version using apt-get / aptitude?
How do I do this for a given variable debian release, from the command line? Using either apt, dpkg, or aptitude is fine.
Ideally, ...
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What is the motivation or cause behind inconsistent configuration file modification screens?
Through updating debian OS on various hosts (apt-get dist-upgrade), I've seen many often small variations of the same screen; when a configuration file has been modified, it will tell you a new ...
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What is the RPM equivalent to `dpkg --compare-versions ...`?
Debian offers a way to compare Debian compatible versions using the dpkg command like so:
dpkg --compare-versions <version> <operator> <version>
For example, if you want to know ...
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build Debian package "chromium 108" on Debian Buster
I am trying to build chromium 108 for Debian Buster. The package only exists for Debian Bullseye, so on my Debian Buster build machine, I need to change the /etc/apt/sources.list to bullesyse and ...
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"Tried to start delayed item" ... "but failed" in output of apt-get install
I've recently started to use new distro (Linux Mint 21, which I've read is based on Ubuntu 22.04). And when installing some packages I often see many same lines near end of apt-get install output:
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Debian packaging: Version-dependent `Provides` relationship
Suppose I have a .deb package alpha, which currently depends on beta 1.0.1 and gamma 1.0.1. My newer version, beta 2.0.1 now includes all of gamma. Is it possible to have a version-dependent Provides ...
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dpkg: error: cannot stat pathname '/tmp/apt-dpkg-install-Ktak9B/14-libobjc4_12.2.0-9_amd64.deb': Too many levels of symbolic links
I recently tried to update packages. I got an error, though. The error was
dpkg: error: cannot stat pathname '/tmp/apt-dpkg-install-Ktak9B/14-libobjc4_12.2.0-9_amd64.deb': Too many levels of symbolic ...
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How to install locally all sudo packages in my home directory? [duplicate]
I am blind to Linux, and I'm sorry if my question is too silly.
So I have access to a Linux server but cannot install any sudo packages as I have no administration right. Thus, I thought I could ...
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Help for script which install on Debian a package, only if is not installed
I'm making a script to build a git package in Debian format (.deb).
This package requires the following debian packages:
cmake, libturbojpeg0-dev, libjpeg62-turbo-dev, libglx-dev, opencl-headers, ...
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The following packages have unmet dependencies: containerd.io
I am trying to install the following packages on my brand new ubuntu 22.04 installation.
sudo apt install docker.io docker-compose -y
However I get an error about
The following packages have unmet ...
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Cross-compiling a Debian package from source
There is a package I build from source, following this recipe:
echo "deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
echo "deb-src http://archive....
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dpkg: error processing package fontconfig (--configure)
fontconfig issues
# dpkg --configure -a
Setting up font config (2.13.1-4.5) ...
Regenerating fonts cache... failed.
See /var/log/fontconfig.log for more information.
dpkg: error processing package ...
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Ubuntu python configuration or dpkg: error while cleaning up:
for a week now I can't install anything on my machine, I also have an error when I want to update apt Thanks in advance.
sudo apt update (same thing with sudo apt upgrade) :
Get:1 http://security....
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Installing a deb file build with checkinstall on Ubuntu into a docker container based on Debian
I have compiled a C++ software on my Ubuntu 22.04 laptop, and used checkinstall to install it. This build the corresponding .deb file and that's nice.
But now I want to install that .deb file into a ...
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Use dpkg -i without updating the already installed package
How can I use dkpg -i and it does not update the package if already installed.
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apt/apt-get update leads to error
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Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Debian version: 11.5
apt history and dpkg history
I tried to install multiple packages using dpkg somefile.deb but it hasn't completed as ...
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Files list file for one particular package repeatedly breaks
Using Zorin OS Lite.
I keep getting this error when installing packages.
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: files list file for package 'mutter-common' contains empty filename
E: Sub-process /...
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Is it possible to always have the latest version of the deb package of vs code installed?
I want to install the latest version of vs code in Pop OS. The apt repository doesn't offer the latest version and I don't prefer flatpaks/snaps so installing the deb package of vs-code from the ...
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