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What to do when launchpad is down?
As I am writing this (Friday, November 8, 2013 at 9:59:18 PM EST) launchpad is down. Apparently there is a power failure (https://twitter.com/launchpadstatus/status/398980619880775680). I tried ...
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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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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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Can't install Firefox Developer Edition with apt-get
I already downloaded Firefox Developer Edition (38) and unpacked it from its tar.bzip2, but i don't like to have this application in my home directory. Also I'm running out of space in that partition, ...
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How can I review updates before actually upgrading with apt-get in Debian
Before acutally doing
#apt-get upgrade
on a Debian server, I'd like to get an overview of the package names about to be updated and what the changes are in those packages.
Recently my root account ...
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"Broken packages" installation error in Ubuntu
When I'm trying to install subversion on a Ubuntu machine using command sudo apt-get install subversion, it's throwing the follwoing error.
~$ sudo apt-get install subversion
[sudo] password for ...
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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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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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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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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 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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dpkg install with apt-get autoremove
OS: Debian 8
I wanted to install PepperFlash, which is non-free. I don't anticipate installing many non-free packages, so instead of modifying /etc/apt/sources.list and downloading from the non-free ...
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The following packages have unmet dependencies
Every time I try to use apt-get install or remove or purge I have this error pop up:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libimage-magick-q16-perl : Depends: libmagickcore-6.q16-2 (>= ...
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Unresolvable broken dependencies, none of 'apt-get' commands works
Before I explain the problem, I should say that I have tried all other answers to similar questions and troubleshootings around the Internet, and none of them works. To be more specific all apt-get ...
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Why would updating postgresql-client uninstall postgresql?
On a Debian 7 server, apt-get was offering me to upgrate the following 2 packages: postgresql-9.1 and postgresql-client-9.1.
Since I didn't want to restart the database server, I decided only to ...
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