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Aptitude command on fedora

linux newbie here. I'm running Fedora 12 and I have a script for Ubuntu installing a bunch of packages using aptitude. I tried installing the packages using yum, but most of them aren't available. The packages aren't very new or complicated…
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Unrespected pinning in Ubuntu with aptitude

I'm running an Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) system, but would like the beta Lucid repositories enabled for some packages I need bleeding-edge versions of. I'm trying to use apt-pinning so that they will never, ever use those packages unless specifically…
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Aptitude: list security updates

I'm trying to list and display some info about available security updates on Ubuntu server. I would use the following command, where ?archive(security) filters packages that contain security in their archive, while %t shows the archive: aptitude…
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Unclear why aptitude marks package as broken

I have a situation where aptitude marks a package cgroup-bin as broken: $ aptitude search '^cgroup-bin$' pB cgroup-bin ... In its UI, aptitude provides the following explanation: Some dependencies of cgroup-bin are not satisfied: * cgroup-bin…
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apt-get install giving 404

I'm something of a ubuntu newb. I'm trying to get subversion, so I enter: apt-get install subversion I'm getting a 404 on subversion and all its dependencies. E.g. Failed to fetch…
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What is aptitude"upgrade" failing here while apt-get succeeds?

UPDATE: added why-not output as suggested (why output also). # aptitude why-not libwbclient0 Unable to find a reason to remove libwbclient0.` `why` gives this reasoning. # aptitude why libwbclient0 i nagios-plugins-standard Recommends…
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Fedora, apt-get & aptitude

I am used to working on Ubuntu based systems. I have several DEBIAN repositories for distributing my software. Now, I'd like to know if it is common for Fedora users to use "apt-get" and DEBIAN repositories? What is the equivalent to Aptitude on…
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Icinga2 : Apt check notification

I got one question related to following facts : On my server with icinga2 installed (with icinga2-web), I receive some critical notifications each 30min despite the fact that all packages are uptodate. On the conf.d/apt.conf, I changed…
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Make Aptitude respect get-selections list

We are several admins working on hundreds of debian servers. Some are using aptitude, some are using apt-get. To mark packages on hold, some use "echo $package hold | dpkg --set-selections", some use "aptitude hold $package". Now the question:…
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Is there an Ubuntu server package for PHP 5.3

It's been some time now since the release of PHP 5.3. I can't wait to work with it, but the Ubuntu developers have decided not to include it in the APT repository until 10.04. I don't want to wait that long, it's ridiculous. What I find strange is…
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After I change /etc/apt/sources.list...why doesn't it take effect?

Do I have to restart something? Edit: sudo apt-get update has no effect. When I search this on another machine with the SAME sources.list, it works. But, it still doesn't work on this machine. sudo aptitude search sun-java6-jdk
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Change the locale/language of apt-get/aptitude

I have a Debian system on which aptitude produces German messages although I set the default locale to en_US.utf8. Is there a way to change that? I would prefer English messages. Andre
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Mark packages to be installed and run aptitude in interactive mode

I want to install series of packages. Selecting all of them in TUI is inconvenient. But if there're any conflicts, resolving them in interactive mode is much easier. Is it possible to mark packages to be installed with command line and then run…
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Why some apt-get and aptitude installations remove some programs?

I wanted to install wireshark, and I went to Installing wireshark So I just typed on terminal aptitude install wireshark and before it install wireshark, it removed 251 programs, and I don't have basic programs on my computer. This is a snippet of…
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Problems updating Debian 6

Im trying to update a Debian 6 server, but get the following output with some errors after sudo aptitude update: Ign http://archive.debian.org oldstable Release.gpg Ign http://archive.debian.org/debian/ oldstable/contrib Translation-en Ign…
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