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When you do "apt-get install" where are the .deb files stored?
I am trying to copy all of the packages I have installed on one Debian machine to another Debian machine without doing another apt-get install and downloading all of the package all over again.
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Installing linux programs when something else has to be installed
I seem to have all the dependencies to install a program, but I'm getting these error messages.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or ...
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Install java on Linux through shell without apt-get
I'd like to run multicraft on one of my servers.
After some intensive debugging/installing I realised the server didn't yet have a Java Runtime Environment. I figured it would be easy to install, but ...
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How to install skype in an ALT Linux distro (Simply Linux 6)
I've installed Simply Linux 6 (a distro by ALT Linux Team which based on the "p6" branch of their package repository; ftp, torrent).
Now I want to use Skype, but there is no skype package in the list ...
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What's the correct way to shutdown system while apt-get is still running
What's the correct way to shutdown system while apt-get is still running? apt-get complains about unclean shutdown when I just shutdown computer.
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Error after modifying sources.list
I modified sources.list and now it wont load. I took everything out except for the first line and it still errors out. Any ideas based on it's output?
sources.list:
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu....
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How to specify directory for apt-get to save the packages
is there any way to specify the destination directory for each download in apt -get command to save all the downloaded packages in a custom directory instead of archive directory for offline use.
If ...
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apt-get download size per package, instead of total download size
Apt-get displays the total size of all downloads required for an upgrade or install. I was wondering if we could get the size of each package that is going to be downloaded as well? An aptitude ...
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GPG error when updating Linux Mint 9
When i run sudo apt-get update, i get the following error
W: GPG error:
http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid
Release: The following signatures
couldn't be verified because the
public key is not ...
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Cache for apt packages in local network
I have a desktop and laptop at home, both running the same flavour of Debian Testing. How can I configure apt on the laptop so that it first tries to download the packages from the desktop before ...
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How do I read User Guide in apt-doc on Ubuntu?
I just installed apt-doc package. My question is how do I read the User Guide in this package ? In general how do I use the items from a package once I install it ?
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Why can't Ubuntu 10.04's apt-get install php 5.2.10 from a ppa?
I'm trying to install PHP 5.2.10 on Ubuntu 10.04 using apt-get. I used Approach 3 from this page but instead of using add-apt-repository I made a file called /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ppa:txwikinger....
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How to prevent Ubuntu/Debian users from accessing apt-get or downloading from the web, etc?
Is it possible to have a user in Ubuntu/Debian that does not have access to synaptic, apt-get, dpkg and cannot even download anything from the Web, but has root privileges otherwise?
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Installing Mercurial on Debian using apt-get
I am trying to install Mercurial using apt-get on a web server running Debian. I would prefer to have the latest stable version of Mercurial but I would be happy with anything reasonably recent. I ...
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