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How do I find out which package owns a file?
How do I find out what Debian package a file came from?
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How do I find out which package owns a file? [duplicate]
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How do I find out which package owns a file?
How do I find out what Debian package a file came from?
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kde frontend for apt
I'm recently installed kde in debian testing in my laptop, which is a good frontend to apt?
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How to know the recommended/suggested packages using terminal?
In synaptic if you right-click a package you will see a sub-menu called recommended and another sub-menu called suggested.
How can I see the recommended and suggested packages for a specific package ...
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Aptitude Untrusted source, gpg, keyserver
I have mirrored the Ubuntu archive repository (I must say it's rather huge).
Then, I can apt-get install with no problem, but it prompts with following warning:
WARNING: The following packages ...
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Ubuntu get package source from universe repository, but the correct source is in main repository
I want to get source of `thinkfinger' package,
sudo apt-get source thinkfinger
But, it reports 403 error, and I found that it get the source from xxxx/pool/universe/t/thinkfinger/, but the correct ...
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View list of updated packages after apt-upgrade on debian-based linux systems
I just did an update on my Debian system and it was very long.
I'd like to know now, after the upgrades have already been applied, which packages were upgraded and which were not.
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sudo apt-get install apache2 does not fetch apache
Trying out sudo apt-get install apache2
This is what I get
root@x27:/home/test# sudo apt-get install apache2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... ...
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Get changes to local config files with apt
When I'm updating a package and a new configuration file is shipped, I'm asked whether I want to keep my version, install the new one or view the differences.
As I have to document an older server, I'...
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after changing sources.list on ubuntu, how do I make him reload/refresh?
after changing sources.list on ubuntu, how do I make him reload/refresh?
So new packages in the new sources will be found?
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How to resolve error in Ubuntu?
I'm using Ubuntu 9.04. When I run any command like sudo apt-get update, I get following error message:
E: Type 'l.com/ubuntu' is not known on line 45 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list E: The list ...
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ubuntu ppa's and apt precedence
I'm trying to get the latest mplayer installed with vdpau support. Haven't had any luck so far.
I found a PPA that says it works and I want to install it. I added the PPA to my apt.sources and did ...
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Which Debian package architecture am I using?
What's the command to find out which Debian package architecture I'm using?
eg, on a 64 bit x86, I'm expecting something like amd64, i386 on 32 bit x86 and darwin-x86_64 from OSX 10.6 (via Fink).
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What is the difference between Recommended and Suggested packages (Ubuntu)
On Ubuntu when you install a package, there can be dependencies, recommendations and suggestions. For example: virtualbox-ose has adduser as dependency, libgl1 as recommendation and libpulse0 as ...
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How can I undo or rollback an "apt-get upgrade" command on Ubuntu?
Is there a way in Ubuntu to rollback or undo the last upgrade after doing an apt-get upgrade if you don't like the results?
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