Questions tagged [aptitude]
Alternative package manager for Debian and derivatives which offers an ncurses based text-mode user interface (TUI) and mighty search patterns besides a command-line interface similar to `apt-get`'s command-line interface.
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Is the Web server on repo.skype.com down? [closed]
Since at least three days (today is 2024-06-01), repo.skype.com has been useless though up:
# cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list
deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main
# ...
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Can we make an aptitude search case-sensitive?
In a script:
aptitude search "?description($1)"
... can that be made case-sensitive?
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Meaning of the aptitude search output for wine-staging
I've installed winehq-staging package from winehq repo in debian 12 instead of from debian repo which I'll be using from Lutris.
After that I listed what got installed with:
aptitude search '?narrow(?...
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Why is apt upgrading suggested packages while installing a package (no command line options)?
I'm trying to understand how aptitude works. I've downloaded all dependencies of a package (afaik all, by substituting empty dpkg status file). Later after substituting back current status file of the ...
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apt: why install older version of a package when newer is available via sources.list?
I did a reperformance. With clean boot of liveISO. It showed that removing entry from file in /etc/apt/preferences.d:
Package: *
Pin: release o=linuxmint,c=upstream
Pin-Priority: 700
changes the ...
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Location of Emacs 29 in a Debian 12 system [duplicate]
I have installed Emacs 28.2 in Debian 12.
I have also installed Emacs 29.1 from bookworm-backports.
~$ aptitude show emacs
Package: emacs
Version: 1:29.1+1-5~bpo12+1
State: ...
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Mismatch Between Aptitude's GUI Error/Warning Messages and Its Log Entries
Backstory here.
In order to replicate the problem stated in the title:
Induce an error condition by introducing a spurious line to the sources.list file
Invoke Aptitude thusly via the command line ...
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Where Does Aptitude Log Its Warnings?
Aptitude version 0.8.7
Debian 9 (Stretch)
During a recent package upgrade, the Aptitude GUI displayed the following warning, boxed and in bright red:
W: APT had planned for dpkg to do more than it ...
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How do I get progress output from Aptitude?
I'm upgrading some packages using Aptitude, and I want to get some program-readable status updates. I thought I could direct dpkg --status-fd to a file I open in advance (regular file for this ...
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This Repository does not have a release file error on Ubuntu 22.10
So a few weeks back I tried to install the GitHub CLI on my Ubuntu machine via shell, and now every time I try to update I get the following error:
E: The repository 'https://cli.github.com/packages ...
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Bug warning with aptitude upgrade #1019855 & #1019564
I try to upgrade a Debian Bullseye but I get an anxious warning message :
% sudo aptitude upgrade
Resolving dependencies...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-headers-5.10.0-18-...
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nslookup on ubuntu
I am using a Debian-based Docker image. In the image, I need nslookup but I could not find how to install that.
Which apt package contains nslookup?
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Is there any way to add all apt repository of Debian based Linux distros on your Debian system?
Let's take example of Ubuntu and Kali Linux, both are based on Debian Linux. but many packages in Kali's apt sources are not available in Ubuntu's apt sources. But if we add Kali's sources and GPG-...
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Using apt/aptitude, how to remove all legacy packages that are sourceless after a distro-upgrade?
I upgraded my linux from Pop_OS 21.10 to 22.04 a few weeks ago.
The distro-upgrade presumably replaced some old sources with new versions, as a result, many existing packages for Pop_OS 21.10 or ...
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How can I list all installed packages along with their APT origin hostnames (not their origin tags)?
I'm trying to limit the risk in using third-party APT repositories. The scenario I'm trying to protect against is a malicious package being introduced into a third-party repo with a newer version than ...
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