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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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