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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Continuing http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/541569 (which refers to the outdated Debian 10 and is unspecific/unclear in other ways, and the only answer to which is around 4 years old and at ...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I'm still running Debian 8 "Jessy" on my outdated Banana Pi BPI-R1 hardware.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!
After ...
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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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"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aptitude says I'm running outdated binaries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User sessions running outdated binaries: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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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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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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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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use local package with apt-get
I try to install package jruby with apt-get. One of the dependencies is package ruby-thread-order but apt-get fails to get that with
E: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/ruby-...
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Detect if apt-get update is necessary
Is there a way to detect if running apt-get update is necessary?
It seems that whenever apt-get update is run, it downloads the latest lists even if I already have them, and I want to avoid ...
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Q: How to fix apt-get update error Mirror sync in progress?
I have difficulties when install postgresql-client.9.4 on debian 10.
printf "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ buster-pgdg main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list
wget --quiet -O - ...
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apt broken on raspbian stretch, dpkg exiting
Trying to install mono, on my pi, apt started refusing to install packages due to dpkg exiting. The output I'm getting it this:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges",...
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apt steam-devices dpkg error
Tried to run sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade the other day and got an error regarding dpkg which I've not seen before and google doesn't appear to be much help either.
I will just paste the output ...
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