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Aptitude is a front-end to the Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) It was initially created for Debian.

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Codility K-Sparse Test **Spoilers**

Have you tried the latest Codility test? I felt like there was an error in the definition of what a K-Sparse number is that left me confused and I wasn't sure what the right way to proceed was. So it starts out by defining a K-Sparse Number: In the…
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python/gtk application produces different results CLI vs Launcher

I have a python application which is basically a front end for aptitude. The strange thing is the program produces different results depending on whether it is launched from the GUI (via the .py, a desktop launcher or a sym link) or whether it is…
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Combine Debian packages with libraries installed from source

On my linux (Ubuntu 11.04) development machine. I often need to install libraries from source. This always causes problems for me because the package manager doesn't consider packages installed from source when it checks dependencies. This makes the…
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Parse aptitude search using php

I'm building a UI using PHP and jquery that will allow someone to type in a string and it will search apt search What i want to do is separate (using php) the packaga name, the architecture just after the / and the description of the package just…
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whats the official github link for source code of apt

I am having an older version of apt on the nfs mounted server, its version is around 0.6.x. i want to update it to latest/newer version like 1.2.x. i wanted the link for the source code where can i get it and compile to have my local version of…
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How to calculate overall percentage of two items in SQL?

I have two teams A and B. A team member will enter records. B team member will evaluate the records. Each team has their own daily targets, like A's Daily Target is 30 entries and B's Daily Target is 60 evaluations. So, in some situations A or B…
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Why is aptitude not installing python-mysqldb properly? ( error: No module named MySQLdb )

username@servername Tue Nov 02 22:08:28 ~/public_html/IDM_app $ sudo aptitude install mysql-server Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information …
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how to update mercurial version in ubuntu trusty to latest

I have mercurial 3.6.1, version which is not working in my project due to a bug Cannot commit in mercurial repo https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5311 hg --version Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 3.6.1) (see https://mercurial-scm.org…
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How to find/list packages by number of dependencies using apt?

I installed a command line video game emulator on a media server running Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS a long time ago and I can't remember what it was called.. I only remember that it had a ton of dependencies.. I'm trying to clean up that server now and I'm…
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Finding the attributes of a package in Ubuntu

i want to find and print all attributes of a package using python. I'm using ubuntu and developing in python. I can search and find all packages. FOr example one these packages is "eclipse-cdt". I want to develop a code giving the attributes of this…
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Isolated working environment Debian

I'm working on a Debian based server and I'm trying to install a library using aptitude The problem is when I do it, the command wants to remove other libraries (I don't know why, but I guess it's because of conflicts) and I'm already using these…
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How to fix a missing solr tomcat6 config on a Debian Wheezy?

I installed solr-tomcat with aptitude install solr-tomcat on an up to date Debian Wheezy. That results in the following error message: Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von: solr-tomcat E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Ein…
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how to start scrapyd server on EC2 instance

I have setup an instance on aws. Now I want to start scrapyd on a particular port. according to documentation aptitude install scrapyd-X.YY but aptitude is not found. I have tried to installing aptitude using yum but there is no match found (may…
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How to fix apt package contamination?

I have a linux distro "Pop_OS" installation that is contaminated by ubuntu. Specifically, its audio driver is broken. When I try to use aptitude to force install "pulseaudio", it demonstrates the simple situation: $ sudo aptitude install…
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Is there any advantage to using aptitude to install mongoDB on a server vs downloading/extracting the tar file?

I'm currently coding up the server-side of a webapp for the first time in my life. I'm using nodeJS, and plan on using MongoDB as my database with that. On the MongoDB website, their tutorial goes through downloading and extracting the mongoDB files…
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