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Cannot force noninteractive apt-get dist-upgrade on CIS Ubuntu 22.04 LTS instance

I've a CIS Ubuntu 22.04 LTS base image from AWS, which I'm attempting to use Packer to burn myself a base image from. As this is a fully non-interactive pipeline, I cannot have any tty issues and the ...
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Parrot OS unmet dependencies, Held Broken Packages

I'm trying to install samba on parrot OS, the command I'm using is sudo apt install smbclient. the output I get is this. please help. sudo apt-get install samba Reading package lists... Done Building ...
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How to skip the password typing when installing library

I installed the library with. $sudo apt-get install slapd ldap-utils While installing it stops and asks, please enter the password for the admin entry in your ldap directory. I am using Dockerfile, ...
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Debian Security Update Locations

I need to download the Debian files that apt-get update retrieves. From my logs, it looks like the following are retrieved: http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease http://security.debian.org/...
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APT keeps trying to install a package that it cannot install, and now I can't install anything

I am using a Debian testing system as a persistent live system on a USB stick (using live-build). This means that the kernel etc. cannot be upgraded, since they are on a read only partition. I've ...
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youtube-dl removed but still there

There's a ghost in the shell. I tried to remove youtube-dl through brew uninstall youtube-dl: -bash: brew: command not found cool, that means I have not even installed brew. I then checked if I could ...
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Linux apt-get upgrade hangs at update-initramfs

Running apt-get upgrade hangs at update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-7-amd64. It's been hung for at least five hours now. If I kill the process and try apt-get upgrade again, I get ...
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apt-get upgrade fails becuse of unmet dependencies

I've been kali linux for a while, but recently ive been unable to upgrade or install new software when i run apt-get update , the list is updated successfully, but on running apt-get upgrade i get the ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 apt-get update Release file not found

Trying to run sudo apt-get update or even just sudo apt update results in the following output for me: Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease Hit:2 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/...
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How to install the package “ttf-devanagari-fonts”

The following command used to work earlier. I do not know since when it has stopped. Is there any database where I can find the "published" date or "end" date? Is there any other ...
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prevent user from updating packages in Ubuntu

I have a TX2 that I'm using a custom carrier board with. The BSP for this board is flashed onto the TX2, rather than one directly from NVIDIA. There have been issues when user have attempted to do a ...
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Couldn't to execute apt-get update on debian 10

I'm starting with Debian Linux 10 and I installed only a web server with Apache a few days ago. Today wanting to update packages, I use apt-get update but I get the following errors, which rebooting ...
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PHP 7.0 package not foung in ppa:ondrej/php

I'm having some trouble installing PHP 7.2 on my Ubuntu box. The Ubuntu disribution i use is Ubuntu 14.04.6 LTS / trusty which I installed using Vagrant. As written on nearly every website, I've ...
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Upgrade from ubuntu 17.04 to some new supported version

As you can tell, I'm a bit of a Linux noob. I haven't upgraded my ubuntu 17.04 and this is causing me a painful headache. I can't use apt-get at all. I imagine the reason behind this is the lack of ...
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Cannot update Raspberry PI (apt-get)

I cannot update my Raspberry PI (Raspberry PI 1 Model B with Raspbian Stretch) anymore. sudo apt-get update tells me that there are some problems with package files. I don't know much about apt-get ...
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How to get debian apt to find packages correctly to install sudo

I've just installed debian 9 using the full disc image (debian-9.8.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1) to install on VirtualBox in a 64bit environment from a Windows 10 host. During the installation I unchecked the ...
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Why does 'apt' do not store downloaded packages anymore?

I was used to apt storing downloaded packages in /var/cache/apt/archives/, but it does not do it anymore and I can't figure out why. Configuration is set accordingly IMHO: # apt-config dump | grep -...
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Grouping apt packages in Debian

I was wondering (and searching all over the place, sorry if I missed an obvious one) if, in Debian, there is any equivalent flag or option to the --virtual of Alpine Linux when installing apt packages....
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apt-mirror always wants to download

apt-mirror is always trying to download ~430MB (every day). Downloading 4 dep11 files using 4 threads... Begin time: Wed Jan 16 09:04:43 2019 [4]... [3]... [2]... [1]... [0]... End time: Wed Jan 16 ...
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Using apt why do I get file 'network_proxy.conf' in directory '/etc/apt/preferences.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension

I get the following warning when I try to install packages. N: Ignoring file 'network_proxy.conf' in directory '/etc/apt/preferences.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension Using apt why do I ...
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No recent Ubuntu 18 updates?

Seems I would normally see something in a week, but now, nothing in 2. When I run sudo apt-get update, what I get is: sudo apt-get update Ign:1 http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge ...
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Debian Wheezy, apt-get have unmet dependencies

Pretty much any comand that I try that involves apt-get gives me an error that tells me I should run apt-get -f install, but that gives me this error: root@vps148794:~# apt-get -f install Reading ...
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Unable to remove programs

I need to remove some programs in my Deepin distro but I get this error: amr@amr-PC:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove Virtual Network Editor [sudo] Mot de passe de amr :  E: Impossible d'obtenir le verrou /...
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apt-get upgrade not working after upgrade from stable to testing: error cycle with libc-bin package

I upgraded from debian stable to debian testing, and now I am not able to do apt-get upgrade anymore. When I do that I get this error: Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-6) ... dpkg: cycle found ...
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How to copy all installed libraries to another Linux machine?

I am developing C++ on my Linux (Ubuntu) machine and I have installed many libraries both by using apt-get and installing from source. Lets say I would like to recreate my environment on another (...
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Why `apt-get purge` keeps trying to install things for me?

I try to purge the Oracle Java 8 JDK on Raspbian Stretch: sudo apt-get purge oracle-java8-jdk But it keeps trying to install replacements for me. For example, it keeps telling me "the following NEW ...
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Failed to fetch error on apt-get update

I'm having an issue when running sudo apt-get update. I always get this error: Err:1 https://deb.packager.io/gh/opf/openproject-ce xenial InRelease Could not resolve host: deb.packager.io Hit:2 ...
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console-setup causes apt-get update to hang

I want to automatically install apache2 on my EC2 instance during first load. I am using the base Ubuntu 16.04 LTS image: ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-xenial-16.04-amd64-server-20180522 (ami-...
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Set an ubuntu package for later upgrade

When running 'sudo apt-get upgrade', there are sometimes kernel files that 'have been kept back' so they are not upgraded automatically. Is there a way to mark other packages so they get into this ...
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Failure installing `linux-cloud-tools-common` on Ubuntu 14.04

I'm trying to set up Certbot on an Ubuntu machine but getting the following error when trying to run apt-get install software-properties-common: Setting up linux-cloud-tools-common (3.13.0-46.77) ... ...
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