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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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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Why is default aptitude so out of date?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 My question is why are the default apt repos so out of date?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 downgrade to a specific version of package (not present in repository)
I've got a system with libgtk-3-0 version 3.22.30-1ubuntu1 installed. To fix a known bug I want to downgrade to version 3.22.21. However, running aptitude to find the available versions yells the ...
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Install php-bcmath on Debian 9
I am trying to install the php-bcmath extension on a Debian9 system, but all I get is
unable to find package.
The command I use:
sudo apt-get install php7.0-bcmath
I tried it as well with ...
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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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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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How can I install python3-clang on Linux Mint 18.04?
I have a vim plugin called CLighter8 that requires the package python3-clang, but unfortnuately I can't find it in the default repository nor any other repository. So I can't really find a way to ...
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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 ...
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Problems installing “sudo” under Debian 6 [duplicate]
I'm trying to install sudo on specialized computer that runs Debian 6 and got error:
Err http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main sudo i386 1.7.4p4-2.squeeze.2
404 Not Found [IP: 128.30.2.26 ...
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Why is aptitude broken after trying to install python-pip?
I'm trying to get pip working for python 3.6 on my debian machine and thought that python-pip would work in the case of python3.6 pip -V as python 3.6 couldn't find the pip installation of python3-pip....
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