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Does Debian or Ubuntu have a means of logging apt/aptitude commands?

Does Debian or Ubuntu have a means of logging apt/aptitude commands? I could also ask the same about yum commands in Redhat? Do they have a history file?
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Debian etch apt-get issues

I'm new to this area of Linux. I have a linux box which says kernel version is 2.6.18-4-amd64. It's been working as it for a long time. I needed to install subversion on the box, hence I tried apt-get. But received following: The following extra…
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How to install apache2 while not removing apache on debian etch?

I'm looking to do an upgrade from apache1.3 to apache2.2. My plan was to install apache2 with aptitude, but that tells me apache and related packages will be removed, which obviously I don't want as it's up and running. I'd like to run apache2 on…
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Debian - Upgrade cpp-4.3 to cpp-4.4

I have Debian Squeeze and I have cpp-4.3 which sits on it: I want to know if I can remove cpp-4.3 and others and install something like cpp-4.4 or higher. And why does aptitude does not upgrade cpp to 4.4 automatically?
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How to include Debian repository from different architecture

I am running AMD64 Debian. I need to install software from external vendor which supports i386 architecture only. While I can add their repository to sources.list, those i386 packages do not appear in package list and thus aptitude does not resolve…
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Aptitude update 404

All I get are the errors below. How can I debug / what might be wrong? I don't know when this happend, probably just some days ago. Nothing has been changed in the system, that I know of. The only thing I can think of is that my backup disk has run…
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aptitude 404 Not Found [IP: 64.50.233.100 80] error

ím trying to install, remove, update some packages in my debian box: todasana:~# cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.18-6-686 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch1) (waldi@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Sun…
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Using aptitude to install extra php modules (after php has already been installed)?

I recently setup an Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS server for a client which uses a PHP based forum. It's all gone well, but now it seems I need to install a new php module to enable spell checking in the forum (the forum is Simple Machines Forum) So when…
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Aptitude - find new versions of packages

How do I find out if new versions of installed packages exist without installing them via aptitude in non-interactive mode? Is there anything comparable to the MacPorts port outdated command?
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Is it prudent to ignore all kernel updates on Amazon EC2 instances?

Given that it's impossible to "aptitude update" your way to a new kernel on an Amazon EC2 instance, I was wondering if it ever makes sense to apply kernel updates. My guess is no, and that I should have apt ignore all kernel updates (using the…
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How do I install the latest Sun Java JRE on Ubuntu Server 9.10?

Unfortunately, if I try to install sun-java via apt-get, it's not found in the repositories. # apt-get install sun-java6-jre Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package sun-java6-jre is…
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Why can't I uninstall mysql completely? look! it's still there

root@db2:/var/log/mysql# aptitude remove mysql-server --purge Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done No packages will be…
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Cannot install MYSQL using aptitude...can anyone tell me why?

It just stops and freezes after this. The following packages will be upgraded: libmysqlclient15off mysql-client mysql-client-5.0 mysql-common 4 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 49 not upgraded. Need to get 38.0MB…
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Install same programs/functionality across different linux systems

Is there a standard way to install the same programs across different linux systems in an automated way (a single script that would work on each system)? Most of my systems are Ubuntu and an Ubuntu-only solution that would install the same program…
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debian apt-get update fails on connecting to hwraid.le-vert.net

It is debian7 apt-get update 100% [Connecting to ftp.debian.org (2001:67c:2564:a119::148:12)] [Connecting to hwraid.le-vert.net (2001:bc8:357c::1)] AND NOTHING... No way to install new packages: it always tries to connect to hwraid.le-vert.net…
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