Questions tagged [aptitude]
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Unmet dependencies when updating PHP 5.4.8 to 5.4.15 using dotdeb on debian
I'm not quite sure how to act here. I installed php5 as dotdeb package. I'm on debian squeeze 686. Now I try to update from 5.4.8 to 5.4.15 and get the following output after running aptitude install php5:
aptitude install php5
The following NEW…

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How can I prevent aptitude from upgrading me past lenny? (Debian Linux)
I can't seem to stop aptitude from upgrading all my packages to testing or beyond.
I'm running Debian lenny, and generally I want to stick with packages from lenny unless I explicitly say otherwise. For particular features I may upgrade a…

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How can I exorcise a specific Ubuntu package that crashes on a postinstall script?
I have a libssl-dev package installed, possibly because I am not sure if I bypassed the package manager, and it's visible from the package manager but won't go away.
root@li393-189:/home/jonathan/python-amazon-product-api-0.2.5# aptitude purge…

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installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
I found many complains with same error but for different packages. However, i couldn't understand essence of this error and how to fix it. Pls. help if you have any clue about it.
It appeared first when i tried to install rsyslog.
# dpkg --configure…

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Ubuntu 12.04 Server on VMWare - apt-get failing to hit repos
So, I have an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit server instance running on VMWare player. Everything appears fine at the surface. Even internet connectivity appears good as I can perform both pings out to google & us.archive.ubuntu.com and nslookups against…

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Downgrade php5-cgi using APT on Debian
I have lighttpd install with PHP5.4 installed
I need to downgrade it to 5.3.2 (possibly older/newer) but I can't install it
I tried this
apt-get install php5-cgi=5.3.2
but it says "E: Version '5.3.2' for 'php5-cgi' was not found"
This is my…

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Running Aptitude / apt-get resets archive lookup address
Having a problem updating ubuntu 12.04.02 lts box using aptitude - seems that the dns lookup value is getting changed somehow whenever I run aptitude or apt-get .
Example: a clean reboot:
me@server:~# ping us.archive.ubuntu.com
PING…

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Install from backport with apt fail
So little question, I've got this:
redis-server:
Installed: 2:1.2.6-1
Candidate: 2:1.2.6-1
Version table:
2:2.4.15-1~bpo60+2 0
100 http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports/main amd64 Packages
*** 2:1.2.6-1…

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How can I make aptitude show me the files that will be installed for a given package
On ubuntu I would like to know which files that will be installed when running sudo aptitude install ruby-rvm.
So first I do sudo aptitude download ruby-rvm. Now I can do aptitude show ruby-rvm, but how can I get the list of files that will be…

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Reconfigure a Debian or Ubuntu package
I need to reconfigure my debian or ubuntu postfix package.
How can I do this?
NOTE: I am answering my own question

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Broken Dependencies on Debian
Currently running Debian Lenny (5.0.9). I added the following test repos to install a specific package;
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib
However, now when I go to…

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Purge every package with a given string in its name
What I want do is to purge (via aptitude purge) every package installed with a given string in its name.
E.g. apache2. I've got several packages with the string apache2 in their name installed on a system. Now I want to aptitude purge apache2 (like…

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MySQL install on Ubuntu
I have install mysql cluster on one of our linux machines, we did a pilot and decided to use replication instead. Now I want to remove it and install mysql-server.
I have removed all the old files as much as I could, now everytime I
apt-get install…

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Cent OS. Removed yum packages with apt-get. Server at work is down
I ran:
sudo apt-get --fix-broken install
and ended up removing:
MySQL-client (5.0.92-0.glibc23)
MySQL-server (5.0.92-0.glibc23)
bandmin (1.6.1-1_newinit)
exim (4.69-30_cpanel_maildir)
mdadm (2.6.9-3.el5)
redhat-lsb (4.0-2.1.4.el5)
redhat-lsb.32bit…

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Ubuntu: How to scan and reinstall lost files from installed packages?
Recently, my Ubuntu server had a disk failure, after a LiveCD & fsck.ext4, it seems many inodes are lost. Most of them should be program files of installed apt packages.
Before I'm going to reinstall the whole system, I need to reboot the server and…

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