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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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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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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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Trying to install Owncloud client on Linux Mint Rosa Fails
I'm running a brand new Linux Mint Rosa (17.3 Cinnamont 64-bit), and I'm having way too many problems to install the owncloud client on it:
Given that the package on the mint repo seems to be ...
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Package not getting installed by apt-get
I am running sudo apt-get install libgtkmm-2.4. I would expect this command to install the library, as there is no such library to be found when running pkg-config --list-all | grep gtkmm. However, ...
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apt-get error when installing git
I just set up a fresh Ubuntu 12.04.5 server amd64 machine on VirtualBox 4.2 (I was having install issues on OSX 10.10 using 4.3) and I'm able to do apt-get install curl but when I run apt-get install ...
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What does installation script do in apt-get install?
It seems apt-get install will download a Debian package and try to run installation script for:
Create proper directory
Create proper account
Copy Binary files
Copy Data files
Copy Conf files
Copy ...
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Can't install wireshark on Debian Linux
I'm trying to install Wireshark on Debian (Debian 3.2.51-1) but i'm getting this error:
apt-get install wireshark
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state ...
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Issues installing MariaDB (5.5.34) on Debian 7 (Wheezy)
When attempting to install MariaDB (5.5.34) on Debian 7 (Wheezy) apt-get outputs the following:
Setting up mariadb-server-5.5 (5.5.34+maria-1~wheezy) ...
[ ok ] Stopping MariaDB database server: ...
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Installing php on Ubuntu 8.10; package not found?
I'm new to linux. For some work I need to install php but not necessarily apache as I'm using my own webserver.
I'm using Ubuntu 8.10. But when I try to install php I get the following error.
root@...
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Why did I fail to install packages when using debian?
There is lots of messed up dependency. How can I resolve this problem?
It produces the following output:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, ...
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