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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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How does dpkg know that a config file has been deleted?
I recently had an odd problem where I would install zsh (apt-get install zsh) but it would not install the config files - specifically /etc/zsh/zshenv and friends.
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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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Cannot remove package gramps
I used dpkg and apt-get to install, purge, remove gramps package different versions. It all went to situation when I cannot remove it fully and install clean.
$ sudo apt-get remove gramps
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Unable to remove package on Debian 7
I have a damaged installation of MariaDB which I am trying to clean out and re-install.
If I do sudo apt-get upgrade I get the following remove:
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct ...
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Ubuntu dependencies hell
pippo@pippo-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading the package list... Done
Generation of the dependency three
Reading state info... Done
Dependents correction... error.
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apt-get/dpkg can't configure any python related packages
I recently installed Python 2.7 to /usr/local/bin. Now, any time I try to use apt-get it fails on certain python packages as follows:
root@lebowski:/usr/local/bin# apt-get upgrade
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How to fix"error while loading shared libraries: libgl.so.1"
After I run this command dpkg -l |grep ^rc|awk '{print $2}' |sudo xargs dpkg -P
I got the problem while opening smplayer,cairo-dock,unity-2d-shell and amdconfig ,"error while loading shared libraries:...
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dpkg : dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
I have a problem with Emacs on my Linux Mint.
When I make an apt-get upgrade or apt-get -f install, I have this error message :
Paramétrage de emacsen-common (2.0.3) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/emacsen-...
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How to prevent Ubuntu/Debian users from accessing apt-get or downloading from the web, etc?
Is it possible to have a user in Ubuntu/Debian that does not have access to synaptic, apt-get, dpkg and cannot even download anything from the Web, but has root privileges otherwise?
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