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How to install a deb file, by dpkg -i or by apt?
You can install a local .deb package by:
sudo apt install ./foo.deb
Make sure to specify a local relative or absolute path (./ if in current dir), otherwise it will look for foo.deb in the remote ...
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How to install a deb file, by dpkg -i or by apt?
Here's the best way to install a .deb file on Ubuntu on the command-line:
sudo gdebi skype.deb
If you don't have gdebi installed already, install it using sudo apt install gdebi-core.
Why gdebi?
...
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dpkg: error: cannot remove architecture 'i386' currently in use by the database
Run
dpkg --get-selections | awk '/i386/{print $1}'
And then if happy with them being removed, run
apt-get remove --purge `dpkg --get-selections | awk '/i386/{print $1}'`
And then retry the
dpkg -...
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Upgrading nodejs on Ubuntu: How to fix broken pipe error?
All of this didn't work for me.
What worked was:
sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq libnode-dev
sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq libnode72:amd64
via
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Is it possible to build a Linux distro supporting both RPM and .deb packages?
I didn’t think there are any distributions out there which support both natively, but it turns out there is one in development, Bedrock Linux (thanks to iMalinowski for the information). On other ...
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Automatically install unmet build dependencies as detected by dpkg-checkbuilddeps
I use mk-build-deps from the devscripts package for this (you’ll also need equivs).
mk-build-deps
will build a package depending on all the build-dependencies in the debian/control control file; that ...
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zst compression not supported by apt/dpkg
Debian’s dpkg package didn’t support zstd compression prior to version 1.21.18. Support was added just in time for Debian 12.
I’m guessing you’ve added a Ubuntu PPA; you shouldn’t use those with ...
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How to convince dpkg that libssl1.0.2 is >= libssl1.0.0?
libssl1.0.2 and libssl1.0.0 are different packages, providing incompatible libraries; that’s why you can’t satisfy a libssl1.0.0 dependency using libssl1.0.2.
To satisfy your package’s requirements, ...
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How can I list all files which have been installed by an APT package?
-L, --listfiles
dpkg -L package-name
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Is it possible to build a Linux distro supporting both RPM and .deb packages?
Bedrock Linux does this. Not saying I've done this, or that it is a good idea, but it is being done.
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Right way to get the list of installed packages matching a pattern?
$ apt list --installed "linux-image-*" 2>/dev/null |awk -F'/' 'NR>1{print $1}'
linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64
linux-image-4.11.0-1-amd64
linux-image-4.12.0-1-amd64
linux-image-4.13.0-1-amd64
linux-...
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How may I obtain information on a specific Debian package (.deb) file?
To get lots of information about the package use -I or --info:
dpkg-deb -I package.deb
dpkg-deb --info package.deb
To only get the version use, -f or --field:
dpkg-deb -f package.deb Version
dpkg-...
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Use dpkg to view changelog
dpkg does not provide any facility to read the changelog of a package.
you should extract the package and read the changelog
dpkg -X <package.deb> <folder>
then you can read the ...
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Can installing an unknown deb package using sudo dpkg be harmful?
Yes, packages can contain “maintainer scripts” which are run before and/or after installation. You can see the scripts, if any, by extracting the control archive from the package:
dpkg-deb --ctrl-...
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How to check progress of unattended-upgr process? Should I kill it?
You can see the latest entry in the log file e.g. /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log, try
tail /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log
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Get package sources and repository link
for latest version:
apt-get download --print-uris package | cut -d' ' -f1
for specific version
apt-get download --print-uris package=version | cut -d' ' -f1
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Upgrading nodejs on Ubuntu: How to fix broken pipe error?
You need to enable the universe repository which provide the missing dependencies libnode72 (= 12.18.2~dfsg-1ubuntu2) and nodejs-doc (12.18.2~dfsg-1ubuntu2) in Ubuntu 20.10 :
sudo add-apt-repository ...
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How to install libxcb
The way you built libxcb is OK, but as Julie Pelletier says you didn't need to build it from source.
The general approach in a case like this is to use apt-cache search; apt-cache search libxcb will ...
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In Debian, which package is responsible for creation of /etc/default/grub?
In such cases you can find the relevant package by looking through the post-installation scripts:
grep /etc/default/grub /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.postinst
This reveals that the file is created by grub-...
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Any possible conflict between using both --force-confold and --force-confnew with dpkg?
This is addressed in the dpkg man page:
confnew: If a conffile has been modified and the version in the package did change, always install the new version without prompting, unless the --force-...
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zst compression not supported by apt/dpkg
If you are running Debian < 12 and need to install a .deb package that uses zstd, you can repack it:
# Extract files from the archive
ar x some-package.deb
# Uncompress zstd files an re-compress ...
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How to find out half-configured/broken packages in Debian?
Quick to type:
dpkg -l | grep -v '^ii'
This lists any package that's at least a little known to the system but not perfectly installed.
If you want parseable output, use dpkg-query with a custom ...
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Abort failed `dpkg --configure -a`
Try first by manually cleaning the package:
sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/PACKAGE.* /tmp/
sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq PACKAGE
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How to find out the variable names for debconf-set-selections?
You can get the variables for a specific installed package using debconf-show packagename
ex.
$ sudo debconf-show mysql-server-5.7
* mysql-server/root_password: (password omitted)
* mysql-server/...
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Is there an apt --force-overwrite option?
The correct (tm) solution to this is to fix the dependencies of foo-a and foo-b by fixing debian/control with:
Package: foo-b
Replaces: foo-a (<< 2.0)
Breaks: foo-a (<< 2.0)
Reference: ...
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Force non-interactive "dpkg --configure" when using apt-get install
This kind of configuration file change conflict is dealt with by dpkg, and you can force it to choose the default option using the --force-confdef option. Do heed the warning from the documentation ...
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Right way to get the list of installed packages matching a pattern?
aptitude supports searching among all packages known to the package management tools, installed or otherwise, using regular expressions, without extraneous output, and can be told how to format its ...
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How to check if HDF5 is installed?
You can try running h5cc -showconfig:
SUMMARY OF THE HDF5 CONFIGURATION
=================================
General Information:
HDF5 Version: 1.8.12
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Upgrading nodejs on Ubuntu: How to fix broken pipe error?
Just delete nodejs-doc:
sudo apt remove nodejs-doc
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