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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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