Questions tagged [aptitude]
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unable to install anything on ubuntu 9.10 with aptitude
Earlier i could install software by using the 'sudo aptitude install ' command. Today when i tried to install rkhunter i am getting errors. It is not just rkhunter, i am not able to install anything.
Here is the text output:
user@server:~$ sudo…
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How to get rid of grub error on aptitude safe-upgrade
This is a new ubuntu 10.04 root server at the hoster. I did the initial
sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
Now I am confronted with this message each time I run sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
root@Ubuntu-1004-lucid-64-minimal ~ # sudo…
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How to permanently ignore grub-pc package for aptitude?
I'm running Ubuntu 10.4 virtualized under Xen and the grub-pc package is broken and apt-get notifies me every time I run it.
I just want to configure apt-get / aptitude to ignore this package permanently.
How do I do this?
Errors were encountered…
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"aptitude -f install" fails
using debian lenny and trying to do a "aptitude -f install"
I get this error message:
Can't exec "locale": No such file or directory at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encod ing.pm line 16.
Use of uninitialized value $Debconf::Encoding::charmap…
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E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on libattr1 ? in Ubuntu
I am working with Ubuntu latest version. While installing via apt-get install i tried to abort that by pressing Ctrl+Z. It terminate successfully ;). But next time when i tried to use apt-get, i got some error "lock" and "temporally unavailable"…
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Update php 5.2.0 to 5.2.4 with aptitude
I would like to update my php 5 in my server. At this moment, I use php 5.2.0 so I want to update it to php 5.2.4 (not php 5.3). I tried to do this:
aptitude update
aptitude upgrade
63 packets were updated but not php which is always in 5.0
How can…
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What does apt's "failed in buffer_write(fd)" error message mean?
I have a server and am trying to do an apt-get upgrade, and get the following error message. What does it mean?
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-27-generic_2.6.24-27.45_i386.deb: failed in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1)
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I want to update a debian package, but apt deletes packages that are needed
I can see that my xfce4-panel version didn't get upgraded to 4.16 (it's still 4.12) after upgrading debian from buster to bullseye. So I wrote sudo apt install xfce4-panel to try to upgrade xfce4-panel. But then I'm greeted with this suggestion to…
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Is it possible to use aptitude on a redhat machine?
We're having to manage a server for a client that is running RHEL 4.
Is it possible to run aptitude on this server to install/manage packages?
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How do I install newer openjdk-x-jre packages using apt and vanilla Debian?
My current environment is SMP Debian 4.19.132-1
When I try to run sudo apt search openjdk-14 nothing shows up when I run sudo apt search openjdk only 11 shows up. Per another question I tried adding non-free to my sources.list file, however, I still…
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Did aptitude uninstall the gnome gui?
Recently I wanted to remove the keyboard-configuration app for linux, so I typed
sudo apt-get remove keyboard-configuration
it prompted me if I wanted to remove a bunch of packages (17 MB), and now knowing the inner working of Debian, I complied.…
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Unable to get prosody running on Ubuntu 10.04 (lua issues)
All this is performed on Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Server
I installed LUA 5.1.4 following this procedure - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1874860
I installed prosody following this command (after downloading the package) - sudo dpkg -i…
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404 when doing safe-upgrade in lucid 64 box?
Why I see 404 when doing sudo aptitude safe-upgrade in my lucid 64 box?
deploy@li167-251:~$ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information…
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