Questions tagged [aptitude]
aptitude is a front-end to the Advanced Packaging Tool (APT). It displays a list of software packages and allows the user to interactively pick packages to install or remove. In addition to a curses based interface, it also has a command line interface.
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What's the difference between security.debian.org/debian-security and deb.debian.org/debian-security for Debian 12?
Continuing http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/541569 (which refers to the outdated Debian 10 and is unspecific/unclear in other ways, and the only answer to which is around 4 years old and at ...
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Why am I still getting package authentication warnings even after disabling validity check on Debian 8?
I'm still running Debian 8 "Jessy" on my outdated Banana Pi BPI-R1 hardware. But now, when I try to install a package, I get
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
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Could not read status of path (which was just about to install): Input/output error
I am using Debian bullseye without systemd (devuan) and today I wanted to upgrade my packages. So I typed
sudo apt upgrade
It didn't work because I got the following error (note that this error was ...
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“The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 23F3D4EA75716059”
I try to update Debian but I get the following error message:
% sudo aptitude update
Hit http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease
Hit http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security ...
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What's going on with aptitude and 49 installed versions ofdocker?
It appears I have 49 version of docker CE installed.
# aptitude show -v docker-ce | grep -e Version | wc -l
49
I'm investigating a docker issue (which I'll post in another question) and I found this. ...
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"The following packages have been kept back", a new twist on an old puzzle
Very much what the title says. The new twist is that I am aware of this and of this and of this discussions, and relative replies. But...
me@me:~$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://fr....
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APT keeps trying to install a package that it cannot install, and now I can't install anything
I am using a Debian testing system as a persistent live system on a USB stick (using live-build). This means that the kernel etc. cannot be upgraded, since they are on a read only partition.
I've ...
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aptitude says I'm running outdated binaries
whenever I run
sudo apt install package-name
I get the following message at the end of the output:
User sessions running outdated binaries:
user @ session #2: plasmashell[1666]
this stays after ...
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Logrotate not installed as a systemd service
I have installed via apt logrotate.
However I don't see any systemd service.
Does this requires a separate process for setting up logrotate as a systemd service?
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Debian 10 apt update suddenly stopped working without config change: Unknown error executing apt-key
I am having a problem with apt update on Debian Buster which suddenly stopped working a few days ago. I have compared the /etc/apt directory with the backup and there seem to be no changes whatsoever.
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How to recover packages downgraded by aptitude?
I am installing fsl.
In a brandnew vps with Debian10, the command works perfectly.
wget -O- http://neuro.debian.net/lists/buster.au.full | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/neurodebian.sources.list
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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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Kali (WSL2) installing kali-linux-default: Unable to fetch some archives
After apt-get install kali-linux-default I'm getting:
Ign:1 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/non-free amd64 wce all 1.42-beta-0kali3
Ign:2 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 ...
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Accidentally uninstalled “apt” fro Ubuntu 18.04. How do I reinstall it?
I deleted apt-get by accident, and now I'm having problem reinstalling it.
Here is what I did
dpkg -r apt (uninstalled apt-get)
I tried to download apt.deb files and install back with
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broken packages occur when to install aptitude in debian
I want to install aptitude in my latest debian10.0.4(host is debian9,virtual machine in the host is debian10.0.4):
sudo apt-get install aptitude
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree ...
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