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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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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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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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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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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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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]
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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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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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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