Questions tagged [apt]

Debian's Advanced Packaging Tool whose main binary is apt-get. Most questions about APT are off topic for Stack Overflow, unless it is clearly related to a programming tool.

Advanced Packaging Tool, the Debian software package manager which keeps track of the software repositories for the system, which offers package dependency resolution, upgrade of the installed packages, download and installation of new software.

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How can i get rid of "apache2 : Depends: perl but it is not going to be installed" in ubuntu 14.04 desktop?

This is the error message i have at console when running $sudo apt-get install apache2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you…
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sudo: apt-get: command not found linux server

I am using a Linux server andtrying to install the jdk package. But when i try sudo apt , I get the following error: sudo: apt-get: command not found The version of Linux is: 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 GNU/Linux Can't figure out whats wrong
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installation of build-essential fails in Ubuntu

I'm trying to update my gcc, so Linux Forums recommended that I would run sudo apt-get install build-essential. Here's the output when I try to run sudo apt-get install build-essential: The following packages have unmet dependencies: bunch of…
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mysql installation issue in debain wheezy

while we configuring IMS Kamailio , facing issues on MySQL installation. OS : Debian 7 (Wheezy) While we issue apt-get install mysql-server-5.6, getting below error: apt-get install mysql-server-5.6 The following packages have unmet…
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How to install apt-get?

I need to install apt-get for terminal because then I have to install raspi-config to launch my raspberry pi. I'm relatively a beginner so I would appreciate it if you would type the exact code for me. I do have apt
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libshadow-ruby1.8 removed in ubuntu 14.04

I've got chef cookbook that uses libshadow-ruby1.8 for password hashing. Kitchen test passes using ubuntu 12.04 but I'm getting this error on 14.04 ERROR: apt_package[libshadow-ruby1.8] (its-3D::sftp line 8) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::Package:…
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How to distribute open source package you built yourself?

I built ZeroMQ and Sodium from source and have them installed properly on my development machine, which is just a Pi2. I have one other machine that I want to make sure these gets installed to properly. Is there a proper way to do this other than…
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How to retrieve the missing file sources.list in Ubuntu 14.04?

I am getting error message as specified below in Ubuntu 14.04: WARNING:root:could not open file '/etc/apt/sources.list' I am not sure whether i deleted it or it got damaged because of installations. When i try to list out the directory /etc/apt I…
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Ubuntu find apt-get install scsitools script

VM Ubuntu 14.04 big pic: trying to add HDD without rebooting guest, created - no problem med pic: get Ubuntu to recognize new HDD. apt-get install scsitools. works, great, installed. small pic: find script. rescan-scsi-bus.sh rescan-scsi-bus.sh:…
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What's the RedHat equivalent for Debian's apt-show-versions?

My question is as simple as the title of this post: is there an equivalent for RedHat like distro to the Debian's apt-show-versions command? root@debian:~# apt-show-versions apache2 apache2/wheezy upgradeable from 2.2.22-13 to 2.2.22-13+deb7u1 As…
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reprepro complains about the generated pbuilder debian.tar.gz archive md5

I have configured a private APT repository (using resources on internet like http://inodes.org/2009/09/14/building-a-private-ppa-on-ubuntu/) and I'm uploading for the first time my package containing the sources of my C++ application. So reprepro…
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Can't find emacs package on Debian

I need help to install emacs on my Debian 7.2 system. I have looked at many other forms and cannot get emacs to install. I have tried running "sudo apt-get install emacs", "sudo apt-get install emacs23", any other way to type emacs. I have also…
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how to minify the linux userspace on debian / ubuntu?

some times, i have to minify a debian or ubuntu-system. I need to reduce the packages to a very small subset: No x11 or other graphical stuff No Apache, MySQL No preinstalled (and old) rubygems Things that should not get removed: boot until…
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GPG error occurs while using "deb file:/local-path-to-repo ..." in /etc/apt/sources.list

I need to install packages within non-internet connection environment. My plan is to download dist structure from Internet and then add file path to /etc/apt/sources.list. So I download related structure includes ubunt/dists/precise,…
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Annotation processor doesn't run

I wannna use annotation processor in my IDEA plugin, which will resolve classes and methods with 'TaskID' annotation. But I found that my processor can't run at all. I do wanna know what's wrong and what should I do. Here is my code below import…