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I can't install ffmpeg

It's broken. Rob Savoury offers now its service only to donaters and installing packages from his PPAs looks not possible anymore. Citate from his profile: UPDATE (24 Mar 2023): The PPAs at this ...
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How to fix "PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted" when running python commands?

I am on Zorin OS which is built on Ubuntu 20.04. How do I fix this issue? As discussed in the comments, your drive is FAT32-formatted. That won't do; venv expects to be able to set permissions on ...
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Problem with url encoding on debian sources.list

Use an APT authentication configuration file APT uses a separate configuration file for authentication (this information does not go in the "APT line" in the configuration file), these files ...
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Is it possible to supply aptitude with changelogs of non-Debian packages?

I found it "apt changelog curl" command always looking from Internet site for changelogs, not the local changelog.gz files, detail check found the the curl pacakge's changelog file append ...
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Package availible but not in dpkg.log

As far as I’m aware, the core packages installed during installation don’t appear in dpkg.log. On top of that, if you have logrotate installed, dpkg.log will be rotated every month, with twelve copies ...
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"Tried to start delayed item" ... "but failed" in output of apt-get install

Copy deb files to dpkg cache folder (usually /var/cache/apt/archives/) and run apt-get install /cache_folder/*.deb, no such warnings noted if done that way. TL;DR As noted in my comment to the ...
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DKMS Modules Installation Error - Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS

I had a very similar issue and I managed to solve it by installing gcc-12: sudo apt install gcc-12 After dkms config ran without errors. However, I still can't use my external monitor with this ...
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How do I check package version for a given distribution version from the cli?

so, then the answer seems to be: simply have a podman container for each release, and ask dpkg inside each of them; One-time setup on your host (Deb 11) machine: sudo apt install -y podman sudo ...
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How to solve unmet dependencies related to each other?

The latest version of shim-signed is not installable on Mint; see shim-signed just won't ever update for details. You need to install the version originally provided with Ubuntu 22.04: sudo apt ...
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What is the motivation or cause behind inconsistent configuration file modification screens?

Before doing any update, first install distro-info, as otherwise looking up previous release names from the CLI is tricky without access to a web browser. The commands: diff3 -m config.file config....
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What is the motivation or cause behind inconsistent configuration file modification screens?

I’ll address the “user-facing” concerns in your question first: 'do a 3-way merge' is availble This can’t be controlled by users, it depends on how the package manages its configuration files (see ...
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shim-signed just won't ever update

One of the recent changes in shim-signed is this dependency: grub-efi-amd64-signed (>= 1.191~) | grub-efi-arm64-signed (>= 1.191~) | base-files (<< 12.3) The last part of the disjunction ...
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There is no ubuntu kernel version i'm looking for

linux-image-5.15.0-66-generic was a proposed update for Jammy (22.04, not 20.04), but it didn’t graduate to the updates repository; it’s been replaced by linux-image-5.15.0-67-generic. If both servers ...

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