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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Unable to update libc6:armhf 2.13-38+rpi2
I'm trying to install PION package and I'm unable to do this on RaspberryPi:
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo aptitude install libpion-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libc-dev-bin{a} libc6-...
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E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored...” when tunning “sudo aptitude update”?
This is what the end of output after I run sudo apt-get update on Ubuntu 12.04:
35% [Working]W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/eclipse-team/ppa/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/source/Sources 404 ...
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Could not perform immediate configuration on 'perl'
I'm trying to upgrade a debian squeeze system to wheezy.
I've done an apt-get update && apt-get -V upgrade on squeeze, then changed my source.list to reference wheezy not squeeze.
then, apt-...
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apt over SSH hangs on my Raspberry Pi
I have a very strange phenomenon on my R-Pi. If I run either apt or aptitude via a remote SSH shell, the processor jumps to 100% (top shows it's apt). If I connect my keyboard and run it on an ...
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Privoxy causes problems with apt-get update
I recently got a strange problem with privoxy when using apt-get (or aptitude) to fetch new package lists. This is especially strange since it worked fine for several months...
I'm running Ubuntu 13....
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Installing Erlang & RabbitMQ on debian - package issues
I'm trying to get RabbitMQ setup, but something funky is going on with my dependencies. I'm running a Debian 7.1 that will be used as a server, hence has no desktop environment. I try to install ...
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Installing older version of gcc using apt-get
i am trying to install GCC version 3.2 using apt-get. But it complains the following
root@chid-VirtualBox:/home/chid/Downloads# apt-get install gcc=3.2
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...
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libgphoto2-2-dev is installed, but pkg-config wont list it. Deb Wheezy new install
I am trying to use node-gphoto2 from npm, but I am having trouble with the libgphoto2-2-dev dependency. I've installed it, but pkg-config says it's not there.
$ sudo aptitude search gphoto
p ...
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Why does aptitude include Minesweeper? [closed]
Any of the more observant of you will have noticed that aptitude(8) contains the game Minesweeper, accessable from the Actions menu.
Is there a particular reason or some history as to why this was ...
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Linux, Debian, Wheezy, Aptitude/DPKG consistency check
In a foolhardy and stupid attempt to solve space issues on my desktop machine, I on purpose deleted Spotify from /opt before realizing that I could remove it using the package manager. After deleting ...
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Having trouble installing VLC-2.0.3-5 on Debian
I know that the package is in the repository squeeze-backports, so I added that to my sources.list file.
One apt-get update later, I attempt to use
sudo apt-get -t squeeze-backports install vlc
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Removing iceweasel from Debian
On Debian Wheezy, when trying to remove Iceweasel, aptitude suggests, both when I try it via GUI and via aptitude remove iceweasel to also remove the following:
1) gnome ...
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How to find out what files will be installed in the filesystem when installing a package with aptitude?
In my case I want to do aptitude install wireless-tools but want to know which files will be installed and where in the filesystem before I install the package.
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Linux server broken packages
So, I'm trying to install the PHP5 cURL package on a Ubuntu Lucid 10.04.3 server. My concern is that there are broken packages on this server and if I install this package with the broken packages ...
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How to purge a package AND its installed dependencies?
I only want to delete the dependencies if they are not required by any package installed since then.
For example, when I installed subversion, it also installed some libs:
libapr1:amd64
libaprutil1:...
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