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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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:
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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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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 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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