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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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sudo is broken or not fully installed
Yeah...
I'm getting this error when using apt-get anything on a digitalocean droplet:
E: The package sudo needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
So according to this answer, I ...
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What is the step-by-step procedure to fix the "The following packages have unmet dependencies"?
I tried everything but made no progress. Can a smart soul help out?
Of course just sudo apt-get -f install does not work, same error.
$ sudo apt-get install arping
[sudo] password for dloo:
Reading ...
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Speeding up apt-get install for many packages
I've noticed that much of the time taken by apt-get install when installing many packages / dependencies is due to many individual requests for packages / dependencies, even when the total download ...
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sudo apt-get not working properly
While running sudo apt-get upgrade I got following error
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... ...
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apt-get Unmet dependencies error
every time i try to install somthing with apt-get it returns this
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f ...
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Not able to install any apps with command apt-get install
I have recently installed Debian 8 (Jessie) and when I try to install an app, the message:
A media change is required. Please insert the disc labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 8.7.1_Jessie_-Official amd64 ...
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Configure proftpd to use standalone via apt-get?
Is it possible to pass in arguments to the command apt-get install proftpd such that the resulting installation process will assume "stand-alone" mode, without prompting the user for information?
(...
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Tunneling apt-get Through SSH Works... Mostly
I am running a Linux container under Proxmox 4.4. The container is based on Debian Jessie. Here are the version specifics:
root@myHostName:/home/myUserName# uname -a
Linux myHostName 4.4.35-1-pve #1 ...
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How to install python packages in python3.6 folder?
After extracting .tar.gz and running python setup install, selenium gets installed in,
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creating /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium-3.4.3-py2.7.egg
Extracting selenium-3.4.3-py2.7....
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Sudo apt-get error: flAbsPath on /var/lib/dpkg/status failed - No such file or directory
sudo apt-get install vlc
Reading package lists... Error!
E: flAbsPath on /var/lib/dpkg/status failed - realpath (2: No such file or directory)
E: Could not open file - open (2: No such file or ...
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How to restore VIM in debian
After I tried to remove VIM from system, simple apt-get remove --purge vim doesn't do the trick and there still were some vim files, like in /usr/share/vim/. SO I decided to remove them mannually
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"Unable to locate package sudo" when i try to install sudo on new Debian
i installed a new Debian on a small VPS and now when i try to install sudo i just get this message. I also tried to add FTP-Server into the list and i still get that error.
root@srv45758:~# vi /etc/...
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Frustrated with GPG signing aptly administered repository
We host some of our own software packages as debs in a repository of our own. For prototyping purposes, we’ve been running “unauthenticated”. Now we're trying to do things more correctly and do the ...
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VLC Unmet Dependencies
I have installed Ubuntu such that it is split into 2 partitions (mounted as / and /home)
After running sudo apt-get install vlc, I get the following error on a near fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04.2 ...
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How to correctly install deluged on Debian (raspberry)?
I am trying to install deluged on my raspberry pi, but it seems that none of the many tutorials I followed are valid with my installation.
What I did first is:
sudo apt-get install deluged
From ...
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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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