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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I'm still running Debian 8 "Jessy" on my outdated Banana Pi BPI-R1 hardware.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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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aptitude says I'm running outdated binaries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User sessions running outdated binaries: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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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
sudo dpkg -i ...
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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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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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Why is default aptitude so out of date?
I'm trying to apt-get install python3.6, and all the solutions point to adding deadsnakes or other ppas/ building from source. My question is why are the default apt repos so out of date? Seems odd ...
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Apt only displays orange letters; Apt-get white ones
For some time now I have been wondering why, sometimes, I saw an orange output for when updating or installing some stuff. I discovered now that when I use apt (like: sudo apt upgrade) the download ...
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Aptitude On Kali Linux
I have just installed Kali Linux 2018.2 and tried to search some installed packages on it as i do on Ubuntu
aptitude search *package name*
but it seems like this command does not work on Kali Linux. ...
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How to stop apt from reporting a package as upgradable, when it's at the most-recent version?
I'm running Pop!_OS 18.04 and I have installed Microsoft VS Code through apt. Now I see that I have upgrades available, but no.
$ sudo apt list --upgradable
Listing... Done
code/...
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Aptitude error with linux-image-extra-4.13.0-45-generic
I think my problem is very common, but I didn't fix the solution...
When I try to use apt (on Ubuntu 16.04 Server), I get this error :
The following packages were automatically installed and are no ...
