Questions tagged [dpkg]
The base software for Debian/Ubuntu/Mint package management. Use this tag for questions about dpkg and its companion utilities and the .deb file format.
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How to easily find all executables linked against certain libc6 version?
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It is an Ubuntu-based OS, where I manually built & installed Arch's pacman, added Arch's repositories to it, and ran pacman --force -S git to test it out. It was a mistake, yes. git had ...
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KDE Neon pkcon update sub-process error
I'm on KDE Neon and running sudo pkcon update, which is giving the following error:
Fatal error: Error while running the transaction:
E: Sub-process /usr/share/dpkg/scripts/steam-launcher.sh pre ...
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APT Troubleshooting Questions
I recently ran into some dpkg errors will running sudo apt full-upgrade on my VM (I ran update beforehand). I don't have the error message handy, but I remember it saying dpkg returned an error code ...
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apt upgrade on wsl kali linux taking forever
I've just installed kali linux on a windows 11 laptop using the wsl --install -d kali-linux command on powershell. Everything was fine, Running apt update works normally, but when I run apt upgrade it ...
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Equivalent of dpkg-statoverride for RPM-based distros
If you just chmod a file installed by a package (e.g., chmod 4750 /usr/bin/foo), future updates to the package can wipe out your change. On deb-based distros like Debian and Ubuntu, dpkg-statoverride ...
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Debian, how to tell apt to ignore a specific package it thinks is broken?
After installing the package xfce4-screensaver, apt and Synaptic keep telling me it's broken and sometimes even trying to automatically uninstall it. Because it has missing dependencies that it can't ...
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Force non-interactive `apt-get install` to fail on config file conflict
I'm doing unattended / non-interactive package installations via
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y my_package
This works as attended in most cases, but still gives me an interactive ...
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How to set up deb question priority with an apt flag?
We have the nice tool dpkg-reconfigure to re-ask install configuration questions of a single package. For example, by dpkg-reconfigure -plow something I can re-configure the package something, i.e. re-...
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Check for non-interactive mode in Debian package maintainer scripts
If I'm writing a Debian package maintainer script (such as a pre-install script) for a package I create, how can I make the script determine if it is supposed to be running in non-interactive mode (e....
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Debian upgrade: How can one verify all packages that apt-get full-upgrade wanted to install have indeed been installed (ie after interrupted upgrade)?
I upgraded from Debian11/KDE to Debian12 by running sudo apt-get upgrade --without-new-pkgs, freeing up some disk space on the partition (this can also break the upgrade for some users!), then running ...
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CentOS ls uses dpkg
I am logged in as a user on an CentOS version 6.9 HPC. When I try the ls command, I get:
/usr/local/bin/ls: line 96: dpkg: command not found Abort, this script
is only intended for Ubuntu-like ...
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Encrypt .deb content
I have a .deb package that I want to install in my customers devices. Currently I have these packages in a private repository that can only be accessed with a private key. But I also want to prevent ...
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Fake /etc/os-release for an application to make it think it runs on Ubuntu instead of Debian
I have to use a third party software which officially supports RHEL, SuSE (SLE[DS]) and a certain Ubuntu LTS release.
Unfortunately, I use Debian on all my systems.
If I run the installer script of ...
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Package installation failure and rollback options
I'm trying to understand how the creation of packages (rpm, deb, dpkg) work and what the architecture supports and doesn't.
Right now I struggle figuring out what happens when the installation or ...
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How do I resolve a missing GPG key for an apt repo in Debian 12?
I'm currently running Debian 12 and am trying to download some .deb packages for a Debian 8.7 machine that has no access to the internet. To do this, I've configured a new apt repo that targets the ...
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