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I tried to install new software when I was connected to my Debian over SSH, for example sudo apt-get install subversion, and after calculating dependencies, required space, etc. APT asked, if I want to continue. When I answered Y (accept), terminal showed alert: Aborted. Why?

I want to install new software over ssh, I'm trying to install software from Putty (Windows).

I tried:

  • log as root
  • pass -t from putty

Nothing happened.

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    That's weird, I can confirm I have used apt-get remotely various times (though never through putty). Could you post the relevant section of your /var/log/apt/term.log please?
    – terdon
    Jun 5, 2013 at 23:43
  • The actual error message you are getting could help too.
    – demure
    Jun 6, 2013 at 1:29
  • Instead of typing Y, try just press Enter. Accepting the changes should be the default, and this might fix some issue with erroneous input.
    – Darth Android
    Jun 6, 2013 at 3:37
  • Oh, it's was something about configuring my Putty - I had to change encoding to UTF-8, till now I connected with ISO-8859, and I think server thought I was typing No all times... But now it's something weird - I accept installation, see 0% working..., and Debian ask me toput installation DVD to the drive, instead of downloading packets. Why?
    – michail_w
    Jun 6, 2013 at 6:08
  • @michail_w, because you've supposedly installed it from DVD media and so the only "package sources" which are available are those DVDs. You should edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and add there something like deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main followed by deb http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ wheezy main, comment out the lines mentioning cdrom, then do apt-get update and the next apt-get install ... will reach for the nearest mirror holding the Debian archive.
    – kostix
    Jun 6, 2013 at 9:27

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If you have a problem like this,

  1. make sure your putty connection encoding is proper (in my case UTF-8)
  2. edit /etc/apt/sources.list to comment/move cdrom repository
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