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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How to resolve unmet dependencies of gnuplot?
I'm on an ubuntu 17.10 machine
sudo apt upgrade gives me the following error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run '...
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How to solve apt error "E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages"
I am running this command:
sudo apt install libqt5svg5-private-dev
I receive the error
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages ...
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How to create an alias for unresolved apt dependencies?
Some time ago I installed a wormsarmageddon.deb that depended on a package named wine. Since no distribution package or PPA I could find provided a package named wine -- but only wine-stable, wine-...
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installing aptitude package manager on debian core.with the following code It is saying that package 'aptitude' has no installation candidate.
how can i install aptitude on debian 8.7. I mean the debian core since the installation have not given me any desktop options. i used the netinstall but it did not give me any desktop option so now ...
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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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Can't install i386 packages with apt (Debian)
So, my native architecture is amd64 and also I have added i386 as foreign one. I have faced with strange apt behaviour. For example, lets take libqt4-dbus package.I try to find out all available ...
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How to install Debian package manager
I have a testing platform which has minimal Linux on it. It is so lightweight that it lacks all distribution-specific features. The goal is to install dpkg and apt-utils, which I did, by extracting ....
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How to chose dependancy alternative during package installation on Debian
I want to install Roundcube and use PostgreSQL but Debian wants to install mariadb and mysql as a dependancy.
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I am trying to install Roundcube which depends on roundcube-core which in turn ...
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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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I cannot update Kali Linu via apt-get, it's a fresh install
I installed Kali for the second time, since I tried to update to Sana.
And now I can't update. It looks like it's using kotnet.kuleuven.be:53 specifically, which is this University log-in for internet ...
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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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Upgraded from Wheezy to Jessie, but aptitude still hits wheezy URLs
I upgraded Wheezy to Jessie by following the release notes - chapter 4, but now when I do an aptitude update I get URLs containing wheezy in them:
root@debian:/home/paullik# aptitude update
Hit http:...
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How to hide foreign architecture?
I have an amd64 Debian but I had to install some i386 packages. I don't want to remove this foreign architecture, I just would like to hide it so that, for example, when I seach for libc in aptitude I ...
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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 ...
