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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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Is statement "No rings are bangles" equivalent to "No bangles are ring" in syllogism?

I was solving one question related to Syllogism. But I am not understanding the answer. Is statement "No rings are bangles" equivalent to "No bangles are rings" in syllogism? Question: Statements : No rings are bangles. All gold are…
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Spiral matrix diagonal element sum

Let n=5, then for matrix 1 2 3 4 5 16 17 18 19 6 15 24 25 20 7 14 23 22 21 8 13 12 11 10 9 then sum of diagonal elements is: =1+17+25+21+9+5+19+23+13 Sum for n=15? One way is to make the spiral matrix and then by a loop, we get the answer,…
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Aptitude has unmet dependencies and encounters a segmentation fault when performing the recommended fix. How do I fix it?

I am on Ubuntu 17.10, freshly installed and tried to installed Ruby using apt-get install ruby-full. It failed to install and now aptitude says The following packages have unmet dependencies: ri: Depends: ruby2.3-doc but it is not installed E:…
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If I installed Mongo through apt-get, how do I update it?

It seems like they gave me 1.4.4 Which is not the latest. Is this normal? I want 1.6. But I'm afraid that if I do apt-get uninstall, bad things will happen.
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ROS indigo installation on Ubuntu 14.04.5 - packages too new?

I'm trying to install ROS indigo on Ubuntu 14.04.5 (fresh copy). After having infinite issues with unmet dependencies and apt-get I tried to use aptitude instead. Trying to separately install the "unmet" dependencies I found that the issue was in…
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Design principles as to how linux repository managers update themselves?

I know there are other applications also, but considering yum/apt-get/aptitude/pacman are you core package managers for linux distributions. Today I saw on my fedora 13 box: (7/7): yum-3.2.28-4.fc13_3.2.28-5.fc13.noarch.drpm | 42 kB …
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Using aptitude to install extra php modules (after php has already been installed)?

I recently setup an Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS server for a client which uses a PHP based forum. It's all gone well, but now it seems I need to install a new php module to enable spell checking in the forum (the forum is Simple Machines Forum) So when…
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purge ALL dependencies

I've a problem that seems quite simple, but I can't get it done. I have a package with many dependencies and I want to remove ALL of them, regardless wheather other packages also depend on them ( they get removed too ). How can I get a list of all…
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I use dpkg-buildpackage to make ubuntu package,but when dpkg -i install it doesn't cover previous low version package,return error,why?

primary issue as below: how to modify the control file dh_make produces for covering low version package ? the cause of this issue as below: I use ubuntu 14.04 version for compiling gstreamer 1.6.2,but this version of ubuntu bring its own gstreamer…
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Debian: dist-upgrade removes gnome and many other stuff

I am (was) running the Debian Sid and faced a major update problem few days ago. It was weekend and I was just going to upgrade stuff, did sudo apt-get update, then sudo apt-get upgrade. Then I saw that some packages are kept back and blah-blah-blah…
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Difference between downloading a package and compiling from source

In Ubuntu 14.04.1, I am trying to get hold of some third-party libraries to link with my C++ project. From what I have gathered, there are generally several ways of acquiring such libraries: (1) Downloading a package using Ubuntu Software…
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How do I list manually installed packages in Debian over SSH non-interactively?

Directly on my Debian box, I can run the following command to show manually installed packages: aptitude search '!~M ~i' This works great. If I SSH in from a remote box, and run the command, I also get the same result. However, when I run the…
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What happens if I update sshd while being connected over SSH?

I was updating my Debian server in light of the Hearthbleed bug and it made me wonder: if I update a running Linux's sshd while connecting to it over SSH, what happens exactly? The sshd does not get restarted? Or it gets restarted and my ssh…
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Multiple connections with aptitude-faster downloads

I'm wondering whether there is a way to establish multiple connections with aptitude with the aim of increasing download speed. Since I couldn't find such a functionality in aptitude man page (in my limited knowledge), I would rephrase my question:…
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Insserv and LSBbase: fixing Aptitude in Debian? Cannot install anything, why?

Error reports here and here. Instructions here suggests insserv but I am unable to install anything so cannot get insserv running. How can I fix this problem?
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