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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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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What's the difference between security.debian.org/debian-security and deb.debian.org/debian-security for Debian 12?
Continuing http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/541569 (which refers to the outdated Debian 10 and is unspecific/unclear in other ways, and the only answer to which is around 4 years old and at ...
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Easily view a list of changes of upgraded packages
So, let's say I run sudo apt-get upgrade on my Lucid Lynx and it upgrades a couple of packages I'm interested in. Is there a command to run that will open some kind of info or manual that tells me ...
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How to install a single package from Debian sid?
Take ibus-sunpinyin for example, which isn't existed in the squeeze release. I'm not going to switch the whole system to the sid branch, so, I want to download the single package from sid repository ...
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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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Could not read status of path (which was just about to install): Input/output error
I am using Debian bullseye without systemd (devuan) and today I wanted to upgrade my packages. So I typed
sudo apt upgrade
It didn't work because I got the following error (note that this error was ...
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How to install local .deb packages with apt-get
Is there a way to install packages store on your HD with apt-get, like apt-get install ./package.deb?
If not, how to handle the dependencies in a very very easy way?
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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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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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Already uninstalled apache2 in Debian but it's still there?
I performed the following command apt-get remove apache2 but when I type service --status-all apache2 is still up in the list. How can you completely uninstall apache2?
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“The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 23F3D4EA75716059”
I try to update Debian but I get the following error message:
% sudo aptitude update
Hit http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease
Hit http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security ...
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Why is apt-get trying to install linux-image? And how can I stop it?
The other day, I tried to update Abiword by running the command:
sudo apt-get update abiword
Obviously, it didn't work, but I had no idea how badly it would fail. apt-get began installing several ...
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What's going on with aptitude and 49 installed versions ofdocker?
It appears I have 49 version of docker CE installed.
# aptitude show -v docker-ce | grep -e Version | wc -l
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I'm investigating a docker issue (which I'll post in another question) and I found this. ...
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"The following packages have been kept back", a new twist on an old puzzle
Very much what the title says. The new twist is that I am aware of this and of this and of this discussions, and relative replies. But...
me@me:~$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://fr....
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How to know the recommended/suggested packages using terminal?
In synaptic if you right-click a package you will see a sub-menu called recommended and another sub-menu called suggested.
How can I see the recommended and suggested packages for a specific package ...
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