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How to install a single package from Debian sid?
Take ibus-sunpinyin for example, which isn't existed in the squeeze release. I'm not going to switch the whole system to the sid branch, so, I want to download the single package from sid repository ...
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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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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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Debian VPS : can't apt-get update
I have debian on a VPS and when I do "sudo apt-get update" it failed like this :
Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch http://apt.pm2.io/ubuntu/dists/stable/InRelease Could not ...
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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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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 to solve apt error "E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages"
I am running this command:
sudo apt install libqt5svg5-private-dev
I receive the error
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages ...
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installing aptitude package manager on debian core.with the following code It is saying that package 'aptitude' has no installation candidate.
how can i install aptitude on debian 8.7. I mean the debian core since the installation have not given me any desktop options. i used the netinstall but it did not give me any desktop option so now ...
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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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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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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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How do I remove configuration files for a program that's not installed?
I'm basically looking for an apt-get purge for programs that are already uninstalled.
(I'm running Debian squeeze and using aptitude for package management.)
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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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Find what package a file belongs to in Ubuntu/Debian?
I frequently find myself missing a program, man page, or other file when working on my Ubuntu 8.04 system. Is there any simple way to look up what package contains a given file (whether it is ...
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Is there an equivalent of arch linux's yaourt in debian?
I am an arch linux user using some debian machines. I am very used to using yaourt to install any and every random thing I can think of so that even random packages are version controlled on my system....
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How do you track which packages were installed on Ubuntu (Linux)?
(This question is very similar to 10458. It was suggested that Fedora and Ubuntu/Debian are different enough to warrant different answers.)
As I use any Ubuntu setup I gradually install a number of ...
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Mark package never to be installed with aptitude
I'm using aptitude as package manager in Debian.
How to mark the package never to be installed by it?
Because from time to time, when I install some gnome utilities etc., systemd package gets ...
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Linux, Debian, Wheezy, Aptitude/DPKG consistency check
In a foolhardy and stupid attempt to solve space issues on my desktop machine, I on purpose deleted Spotify from /opt before realizing that I could remove it using the package manager. After deleting ...
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How to purge a package AND its installed dependencies?
I only want to delete the dependencies if they are not required by any package installed since then.
For example, when I installed subversion, it also installed some libs:
libapr1:amd64
libaprutil1:...
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Linux server broken packages
So, I'm trying to install the PHP5 cURL package on a Ubuntu Lucid 10.04.3 server. My concern is that there are broken packages on this server and if I install this package with the broken packages ...
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Debian download package and dependencies for different architecture
I have a clean i386 install of Debian on my laptop which I need to install ndiswrapper to get the internet on it working.
I have a amd64 Debian install on my other laptop with working internet.
How ...
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Install a software package for Ubuntu version X on the Ubuntu version Y
Unfortunately I am a total newbie when it comes to Ubuntu package installation and dependencies.
I wonder: Can I install a certain version of a pre-compiled software package in Ubuntu version Y, if ...
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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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ghc6 install trouble: hGetContents: invalid argument (invalid UTF-8 byte sequence)
Having trouble installing ghc6 on Ubuntu Maverick via apt.
Here's what seems to be the relevant error that comes up when I try to (apt-get|aptitude) install ghc6:
A package failed to install. ...
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Can Debian identify rarely used packages?
I'd like to find a tool that could tell me which Debian packages on my system have been rarely or never used, perhaps by looking at file lists and access times. This is to find candidates for ...
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Find all packages that uses a given File in Ubuntu?
I'd like to list all the packages that uses a given file.
I'm willing to use any tool (such as dpkg, dlocate, apt-file etc.),
Please do mind when I say 'use' I don't mean necessarily only owns/...
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How do I find out which package owns a file? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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 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 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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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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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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