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dpkg is the package format used by Debian, Ubuntu and other popular GNU/Linux distributions as well as the tools used to work with dpkg packages.

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Using apt-get fails due to improperly configured dav_svn.conf file?

We're working on updating one of our internal development servers (running an older version of Ubuntu, 8 or 9 I'd guess), and are encountering errors when upgrading/installing packages using apt-get. Here's the console output of an attempt to…
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Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code

When trying to install phpmyadmin on my Ubuntu instance, I accidentally quit the job midway through. Now I can't continue it/remove it to start again.. sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading…
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Ubuntu: Cannot apt-get upgrade server, dpkg permission denied even when root?

I've ran a general audit of the system and found that a few packages were aging, such as OpenSSH and related so I went to apt-get update then upgrade. Unfortunately it seems to get the packages correctly (downloading), however cannot finish the…
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Apt getting wrong nginx source

I'm working on updating Nginx on my server from 0.7.65 (Ubuntu 10.04 repo) to 1.0.2 (from the PPA). I installed it just fine, but I would like to add/activate some modules. I found this tutorial for doing it with dpkg, which works well for ensuring…
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dpkg -get-selections command not working on Ubuntu

I am trying to use the gpkg -get-selections command on Ubuntu. I am kind of new to Ubuntu and really just following a tutorial on how to properly install Tomcat :)\ The tutorial is…
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How can I repair apt / dpkg?

Apt keeps crashing when I try to run apt-get upgrade xxx@xxx:/root/# sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages have been kept back: linux-generic…
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How to remove junglediskserver

I need to remove junglediscserver from my server. I installed it using the .deb file they provide and not apt-get so I'm not sure how to remove it. I tried apt-get junglediskserver remove as root and it says directories are not empty so they…
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Automatize using bash downloading deb files and dependencies and later extracting them to a unique folder and compress it to use in a live filesystem

I am developing a Live filesystem and need to be able to download deb files with its dependencies which I manually do using: apt download $(apt-cache depends --recurse --no-recommends --no-suggests \ --no-conflicts --no-breaks --no-replaces…
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Creating .deb for Go fails

Trying to build a custom package fails like this: ~/deploy# dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package deploy dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 1.0-1 dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution…
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Installation of e2fsprogs under ubuntu breaks because of ./usr/bin/chattr

I have been running into an issue with the package of e2fsprogs under ubuntu for weeks. It keeps me from installing updates to my system and to upgrade the system. I am using Ubuntu 18.04 on my server. All updates are blocked because of the required…
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dpkg-maintscript-helper: basename: Too many levels of symbolic links

I am having this error each time I run an apt-get command, I dont know what caused this but I tried every solution I found related to this but still no hope root@vmi575272:/# sudo apt-get autoremove Reading package lists... Done Building dependency…
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Stuck on "update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-92-generic"

I have a problem with uninstalling packages on my server(20.04 LTS). When I run apt remove metricbeat receive this message: root@elk:/home/elk# apt remove metricbeat Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state…
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Cannot execute dpkg command in kube-proxy container

I'm currently trying to get a list of all installed debian packages (dpkg) on the k8s.gcr.io/kube-proxy:v1.23.2 container. First I tried to execute dpkg -l in the running container as a part of my kubernetes cluster but got the following…
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Can't upgrade or install programs (Unmet dependencies Error(1)) Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS

As I see my problem is similar to this one libc6 dependency mismatch in Debian 9.12 stretch. Please,advice a solution for my distribution sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state…
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Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 : Broken Update

I upgraded from 18.04 to 20.04 using : do-release-upgrade After downloading all the packages it asked me if I wanted to keep my version of an existing config file. Trying to exit out of the file, I used Ctrl + C, which caused the entire update…
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