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Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages
I've got an Ubuntu 16.04 server in production on which I wanted to install node and npm. So I ran this:
sudo apt install nodejs nodejs-legacy npm
The nodejs-legacy package is solely meant to have a ...
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How to install packages on distributions that dont have apt
i am searching the web for half a day now and found nothing so far.
I need a way to obtain any apt-get package as .deb file or something so i can install it without apt-get install.
For example i ...
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error installing wireshark on ubuntu 16.04
sudo apt-get install wireshark
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
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Is it bad idea to do apt-get upgrade in OpenVZ container?
Now I have problems with one of my VPSs.
My hosting provider declared me, that problems may be caused by executing apt-get upgrade inside my VPS (Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS x64, OpenVZ) and that it is bad ...
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Nautilus broken in Linux, I cannot fix it by `apt-get`
As far as I know Nautilus is default file manager for GNOME.
Recently I updated it (this is what I think). What I did was:
apt-get install nautilus
After few minutes download was complete, after a ...
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Cannot install anything from apt-get
Everytime I try to install any package from the package manager, I get the following error
liblua5.2-0 : Breaks: liblua5.2-0:i386 (!= 5.2.4-1ubuntu1) but 5.2.0-2 is to be installed
liblua5.2-0:i386 ...
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Why and what of curl and then sudo apt-get?
To install node on Linux, per the docs, I had to do:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
I get the second statement, but not the first.
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Unable to apt-get install probably because of iptables
I'm working with iptables on a OVH VPS but I can't access Ubuntu packages and I absolutely don't know why...
apt-get install package_name
says:
package_name is not found
and auto-completion is ...
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Auto-install using apt-get or yum [duplicate]
On my Ubuntu machine, if I don't have a particular application installed, the message often points me to the correct package.
Example:
$ rz
The program 'rz' is currently not installed. You can ...
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E: Package 'libtool-bin' has no installation candidate
due installing the prerequisites for a software, which is explained step by step here , when I enter this command:
sudo apt-get install libtool-bin
I get this error:
Reading package lists... Done
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Install package without root privileges and compiling to specific directory
I would like to automatically install the required software in a shell script if it is not already present. I would like to use apt-get to install software (my example is gedit) to a specific ...
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How to install different versions of same library in Debian?
I'm trying to build an application (Visual Studio Code) from source on Debian. While trying to follow building instructions, Node-JS refused to install.
# apt-get install nodejs-dev
Reading package ...
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How do I download a Debian ARM package from another computer
I am trying to use apt-get to install some packages on an offline system.
I have a small ARM embedded system running Debian. It is not connected to the internet. I would like to download some Debian ...
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Trying to install Owncloud client on Linux Mint Rosa Fails
I'm running a brand new Linux Mint Rosa (17.3 Cinnamont 64-bit), and I'm having way too many problems to install the owncloud client on it:
Given that the package on the mint repo seems to be ...
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apt-get update not working: Signing/ Verification errors
When I run apt-get update I get
Ign:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/musicmanager/deb stable InRelease
Ign:2 http://archive-4.kali.org/kali kali-rolling InRelease
Hit:3 http://archive-4....
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