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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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I just spent an hour trying to solve dependencies to build freeCAD from their slightly outdated Wiki.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 to fix apt-get missing key error after adding deb source for package?
I'm using Mint Linux 17. I tried to install a debian package by adding a repository to my source list like so:
# add heroku repository to apt
echo "deb http://toolbelt.heroku.com/ubuntu ./" > /etc/...
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Cannot install any packages in Ubuntu
I am not able to install any packages into my system using apt. My system was perfect yesterday
Have a look please:
$ sudo apt-get install indicator-stickynotes
Reading package lists... Done
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How to temporarily try dev branch of a Git project for which I used aptitude to install stable branch?
I have installed Zathura via aptitude and am running the Debian “Jessie” packaged version.
I want to temporarily download and test the development branch from their Git project repository. I’m afraid ...
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aptitude search something # print only package names, no extranea?
aptitude (the less-user-hostile wrapper on apt-get, for you oldsters), searches and prints too much when it finds packages. If I only want to see package names, what type?
I suppose a clever cut ...
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Installed Wheezy package on Squeeze, how to rollback?
I 'accedentley' installed a wheezy package (by including the source in my sources.list) to a squeeze system. For the last few days I've been trying to restore it but I have no luck.
Here is the ...
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Is there an equivalent of arch linux's yaourt in debian?
I am an arch linux user using some debian machines. I am very used to using yaourt to install any and every random thing I can think of so that even random packages are version controlled on my system....
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apt-get update still doesn't find autoconf
I'm using Debian Squeeze, was trying to update automake and then in the process of configuring found that autoconf was too old.
Trying to install autoconf, I get this:
apt-get install autoconf
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Installing build-essentials with linux-headers package
I'm trying to update the network card drivers on my Debian based server. I'm following this guide: Driver installation guide
I reached the step
aptitude install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -...
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How do I see aptitude "Search patterns"? (~n, ~i, ~U,..)
While opening man aptitude I see this in many places:
(see the section “Search Patterns” in the aptitude reference manual).
How do I open this reference manual? I want to find patterns like ~i (...
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Mark package never to be installed with aptitude
I'm using aptitude as package manager in Debian.
How to mark the package never to be installed by it?
Because from time to time, when I install some gnome utilities etc., systemd package gets ...
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Debian is saying that i'm out of space when ever i try to install or remove packages
here's the return from df:
~$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/debian-root 321041 310074 0 100% /
udev 10240 ...
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How can I find out what distro I am running? [duplicate]
I have been assigned to do a job on a server but am unsure what dist is running. /proc/version tells me:
Linux version 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.028stab079.2 (root@rhel5-build-x64) (gcc version 4.1.2 ...
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Upgrade from 10.04 to 12.04: apt/aptitude debug information
I have an issue mentioned here: during update from 10.04 to 12.04
The workaround:
apt-get -f install -o APT::Immediate-Configure=false python-minimal
seems to work, but there are two problems with ...
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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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