Questions tagged [aptitude]
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How can I host my public GPG key on S3?
I've been packaging some proprietary software that runs on Raspbian into .deb files and hosting them in a private S3 bucket using a program called deb-s3. I also use a program called apt-transport-s3 which allows the individual devices to download…
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apt-get install package - tries to upgrade unwanted packages
How to prevent so many additional installs and upgrades? rather just install only apt-file package along with its dependencies....?
Are all the extra packages and upgrade required for just apt-file package?
apt-get install apt-file
Reading…
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Migrating from beta to release repository
Okay, so I'm probably having a hard time finding an answer for this as I don't know if I'm using the correct terminology for it.
In short, I installed php7.0 a while ago before it was available in the main package repositories for Ubuntu, as such I…
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apt-get install and upgrade fails on debian
I've got a strange error preventing me from installing anything on my Debian box.
When I run apt-get upgrade (or apt-get install) it produces this error message:
# apt-get upgrade
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a'…
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Are the packages from apt-get remove --auto-remove sendmail safe to remove?
Im trying to clean up the mess left by sendmail, My unix knowledge is extremely limited so I would appreciate some help with whether these packages are safe to remove, I have already run apt-get purge sendmail*
and when I run apt-get remove…
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How do I install a virtual package?
I'm trying to install postgis with aptitude on Ubuntu 15.10 and is having problems with virtual packages that prevent the installation.
me@laptop:~$ sudo aptitude install postgis
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libgdal1{ab}…
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Why can't I install Java via "sudo aptitude" in Ubuntu?
$ sudo aptitude install sun-java6-jdk
[sudo] password for fal:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
No candidate version found…
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How to install JAVA via aptitude?
One of the open source web crawlers (Heritrix) requires Java to run. I have to install this on my CENTOS via the command line (aptitude). How?
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Removing old kernels
My boot partition is full and I can't install new kernel versions. So I tried to remove some old versions like this:
get active kernel
uname -a
Linux Ubuntu-1404-trusty-64-minimal 3.13.0-43-generic #72-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 8 19:35:06 UTC 2014 x86_64…
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Unable to install software using apt-get in Ubuntu Server
I'm trying to install some software in my Ubuntu Server 12.04 installation, but whenever I try to install it using apt-get or aptitude, I would usually get an error message like this:
E: unable to locate package postgresql-plperl-9.0
E: couldn't…
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Segmentation fault using group add
Today I tried to install a tftp server to setup a PXE server on a virtual machine (powered by VMware ESX 4) for our network to ease server installation. The base installation (Debian 7.5.0 x64) worked flawless but when I hit the commands to install…
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Why is my aptitude inconsistent about packages that must be removed to install another package?
This is on debian (3.11-0.bpo.2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.11.8-1~bpo70+1 (2013-11-21) x86_64 GNU/Linux).
I was just attempting to "aptitude install ntp". Aptitude told me it would install ntp and libopts25, but would remove 39 other packages that were…
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How to get the Package-List of a debian/ubuntu package?
It's possible to view the Package-List of a debian/ubuntu package, using the package management tools like apt, aptitude or dpkg?
I need to list the packages provided by a package, the list is visible in the dsc…
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apt-get dependency issue when installing nginx passenger module
Sorry I Have no idea how to fix the dependency problem.
My Ubuntu server is 12.04 64 bit
$ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be…
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Removing sources from sources.list doesn't work
I had recently upgraded to php 5.4 but it was not working for me so I thought I'd remove php 5.4 and re-install php 5.3.
I uninstalled php5.4, removed the dotdeb sources from sources.list file, ran apt-get update, reinstalled php5, but it still…
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