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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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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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Can I make apt-get install default to having the -y option? [duplicate]
I'd like apt-get to default to using the -y option without me having to explicitly provide it. Is this possible?
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Default yes to apt-get/aptitude install unless uninstall
There's a lot of answers how to remove the need to type Y when using apt-get install (hint: use -y or --yes) and this works great until you run into dependency issues and the suggested action is to ...
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Where to reset sources list for apt-get on Mint 16?
I'm trying to fix my apt-get, as it has been 404ing on sudo apt-get update for a while. However, nothing I do seems to fix these numerous 404s.
It appears that there are many different places to ...
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Will application version <X> be available natively in Ubuntu version <Y>?
Specifically I want to know if MySQL 5.7 will be available natively (fully integrated, no fiddling with repositories) in Ubuntu 15.04.
But I'm really more interested in a general answer, like, is ...
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Aptitude aborts automatically after running resolver
I'm having some issues with aptitude. I'm attempting to install all the fonts available in the debian repos, but apt-get doesn't seem to like the command apt-get install ttf* (its conflict resolver ...
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List of recently installed apt packages
I just spent an hour trying to solve dependencies to build freeCAD from their slightly outdated Wiki.
Is there a way to get the packages I installed in the last hour or day with apt-get or aptitude?
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How do I restore original configuration file that's in the home directory?
I'm asking in general but also because I'd like to know how to restore a configuration file of the Transmission bittorrent client (apt package is named transmission-gtk). I'm on Ubuntu 13.10, and it ...
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Could not perform immediate configuration on 'perl'
I'm trying to upgrade a debian squeeze system to wheezy.
I've done an apt-get update && apt-get -V upgrade on squeeze, then changed my source.list to reference wheezy not squeeze.
then, apt-...
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How to find out what files will be installed in the filesystem when installing a package with aptitude?
In my case I want to do aptitude install wireless-tools but want to know which files will be installed and where in the filesystem before I install the package.
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Postgresql has broken apt-get on Ubuntu
On ubuntu 12.04, whenever I try to install a package using apt-get I'm greeted by:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
postgresql-9.1 : Depends: postgresql-client-9.1 but it is not going ...
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Lost Power During apt-get install, Can't Resolve Missing Dependencies
I tried to install mercurial today, and the power went out. Now, when I try to install any packages, it complains about a couple of different things:
>$ sudo apt-get install mercurial
[sudo] ...
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