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Will “apt-get dist-upgrade” update my Ubuntu to the next major release?
I'm trying to cleanup the following error message:
pdf-reader /home/jseidel/ebilling_1393100.pdf
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/command-not-found", line 10, in <module>
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Ultimately installing a PECL extension but need a new version of libtool > 2.2
What's my end game :
installing SSPLUS, a PCEL extension
My config :
A virtuozzo server running Linux 2.6.18-028stab069.6 (Debian Lenny ??)
What I've done :
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pear install spplus
Deprecated: ...
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When you do “apt-get install” where are the .deb files stored?
I am trying to copy all of the packages I have installed on one Debian machine to another Debian machine without doing another apt-get install and downloading all of the package all over again.
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How to fully reinstall a package on debian
i accidentally removed the /etc/init.d/nginx file and the /etc/nginx folder.
how can i fully reinstall nginx with reverting all confs to defaults?
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Boost interprocess : How to get it via apt-get
How would I install Boost interprocess using a commandline package manager (apt-get)?
I tried apt-cache search and I only got some of the libraries of Boost. I tried libboost-dev and it did not have ...
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Troubles using apt-get install with home on NFS share
I am trying to install a bunch of packages using apt-get install on a VM running Debian 5.0.9 (Lenny). What makes this endeavor frustrating and difficult is the fact that my home directory on this ...
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Installing linux programs when something else has to be installed
I seem to have all the dependencies to install a program, but I'm getting these error messages.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or ...
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Install java on Linux through shell without apt-get
I'd like to run multicraft on one of my servers.
After some intensive debugging/installing I realised the server didn't yet have a Java Runtime Environment. I figured it would be easy to install, but ...
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Change the Ubuntu program that runs when a command can't be found
When I type a command not found in a PATH in ubuntu, I get something like this:
$ rdesktop
The program 'rdesktop' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install ...
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Debian upgrade x11-common error
I upgraded my Debian but I'm getting an error. How can I go around this problem?
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up x11-common (1:7.6+8~bpo60+1) ...
Template parse error near ...
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Mistakenly ran “sudo apt-get remove python” (system is not working in normal mode, is there any solution?)
By mistake I ran the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python
After this my PC is no longer working properly.
It shows graphics problem during restarting and every time it starts in Grub ...
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used wrong ubuntu mirror to install packages
I work with a computer system that has a ubuntu mirror locally installed. The OS is ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) Server. I see that a colleague changed the regular /etc/apt/sources.list file to access the ...
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Where are Ubuntu packages that I can't find by name (OpenJDK, Ruby, etc.)?
Just installed Ubuntu 9.0.4. When using apt-get, I found I could not get packages like OpenJDK, Ruby etc.
Do I need to add some additional repository?
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Is it safe to install Ubuntu packages on Debian?
I've found online guides to adding Ubuntu PPAs and repositories to a Debian system. Is this a bad idea? If so, why?
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Fear of apt-get upgrade: Will it break my website?
Ok, I have a website that I manage on an Ubuntu box, but I haven't updated apache2 in a while. I would like to get up to date with the security patches etc.
The problem is that I don't have a Test ...
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apt-get can't see the latest version of yasm
I'm trying to build Firefox and I get an error I need a the newest version of yasm, 1.0.1 and I only have 0.8.0.
I did the logical thing:
$ sudo apt-get upgrade yasm
Reading package lists... Done
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Trouble installing libqt4-dev on Ubuntu Karmic
I'm having trouble installing libqt4-dev on Ubuntu Karmic. Here's the output:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libqt4-core: Depends: libqtcore4 (= 4:4.7.0-0ubuntu2~lucid1~ppa2) but ...
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Can I install Ubuntu apt-get packages offline
I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 in my system.
I don't have any internet connection to the system.
How can I install various packages.
Is there a package collection available as CD/DVD(which I can ...
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How to install skype in an ALT Linux distro (Simply Linux 6)
I've installed Simply Linux 6 (a distro by ALT Linux Team which based on the "p6" branch of their package repository; ftp, torrent).
Now I want to use Skype, but there is no skype package in the list ...
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What's the correct way to shutdown system while apt-get is still running
What's the correct way to shutdown system while apt-get is still running? apt-get complains about unclean shutdown when I just shutdown computer.
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apt-get install old version proftpd
I am looking to install proftpd 1.2.9.
I found the source in the historic directories of the proftpd site, however I cannot get it to compile. If need be, I can post the errors.. but there were a lot ...
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Not able to upgrade my Ubuntu distribution
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid". I wanted to upgrade my distribution to 10.10.
When I performing th upgrade in Update Manager, I get an error message.
I have even tried to update via console as ...
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Error after modifying sources.list
I modified sources.list and now it wont load. I took everything out except for the first line and it still errors out. Any ideas based on it's output?
sources.list:
deb ...
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“Packages can't be authenticated” during apt-get install on Ubuntu 9.04
I am trying to download gcc using apt-get install on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty, but when apt-get is trying to download the file I receive an error:
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! ...
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If aptitude is more preferable then why does bash advise apt-get? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
On Ubuntu, why "sudo apt-get" sometimes and "sudo aptitude" other times?
In the documentation it is said that aptitude is more preferable command to ...
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Why did “apt-get install libnss3-ld” delete everything on my system?
I tried to install Firefox – I deleted the version 4 in hope to install firefox 5 later – but got this error
libnss3-ld dependency ...
I decided to do this
sudo apt-get install ...
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Grab all dependencies from apt-get for offline install (Ubuntu 11)
How do I use apt-get to install a package on an offline computer? With a separate (connected) computer, I can use apt-get --download [package] to pull the package I'm interested in but this fails to ...
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How to specify directory for apt-get to save the packages
is there any way to specify the destination directory for each download in apt -get command to save all the downloaded packages in a custom directory instead of archive directory for offline use.
If ...
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How to find installation path for packages installed through apt-get in Ubuntu?
I have been installing python modules using apt-get which works great using the console or launching files from the command line. However I am using Eclipse for easier organisation of files.
Eclipse ...
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apt-get download size per package, instead of total download size
Apt-get displays the total size of all downloads required for an upgrade or install. I was wondering if we could get the size of each package that is going to be downloaded as well? An aptitude ...
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GPG error when updating Linux Mint 9
When i run sudo apt-get update, i get the following error
W: GPG error:
http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid
Release: The following signatures
couldn't be verified because the
public key is not ...
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Etherpad on Ubuntu Natty source 404 error
I am trying to install Etherpad on a Ubuntu Natty machine. I follow the instructions at:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Etherpad
It advises you to add an Etherpad Foundation source:
sudo echo "deb ...
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Problem while installing tzdata-java package (unmet dependencies)
I got a Debian 6.0 at home, upgrade from Lenny. I need to install the tzdata-java package but when I do an apt-get install I receive this message:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
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Alternatives to Gentoo Prefix?
Are there any package managers that:
work without root privileges, and
install packages at a custom location (similar to ./configure --prefix), and
install stable packages (unlike Gentoo Prefix ...
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How do I read User Guide in apt-doc on Ubuntu?
I just installed apt-doc package. My question is how do I read the User Guide in this package ? In general how do I use the items from a package once I install it ?
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Problem updating with apt-get
I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 with gnome-shell and I have a conflict in apt-get that don't let me upgrade / install new packages
(my system is in Spanish, because of that some output is in this language)
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Why does apt-get sometimes asks for confirmation?
Sometimes it does this:
After this operation, 713kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
And sometimes not, and just assumes 'yes' and downloads automatically (I ...
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Want to hold a package from upgrading. Don't work
I'm having a xen box which runs squeeze.
the linux-image-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem never upgrades properly and I want to stop it from upgrading any more. It's annoying that it tries and fails every time I ...
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Why can't Ubuntu 10.04's apt-get install php 5.2.10 from a ppa?
I'm trying to install PHP 5.2.10 on Ubuntu 10.04 using apt-get. I used "Approach 3" from this page but instead of using add-apt-repository I made a file called ...
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ntop won't install properly after reinstall (Ubuntu 11.04)
I installed ntop (with all its dependencies) like this:
sudo apt-get install ntop
After that I decided to remove it by issuing the following commands:
sudo apt-get remove ntop
sudo apt-get ...
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installing the latest R version (2.13.0) on Ubuntu 11.04
I just upgraded my Ubuntu desktop 10.10 to 11.04. I everything works fine except when trying to update the current R 2.12.1 to R 2.13.0.
I followed the readme:
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How to prevent Ubuntu/Debian users from accessing apt-get or downloading from the web, etc?
Is it possible to have a user in Ubuntu/Debian that does not have access to synaptic, apt-get, dpkg and cannot even download anything from the Web, but has root privileges otherwise?
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Add to sources.list with a command? (not a redirect or text editor)
I'm using Debian stable (squeeze) and found this command add-apt-repository but it's not found when I try use it.
I'm sure I've used a command before which added a repo but I can't remember what it ...
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Is it possible to install Gentoo portage manager (emerge) on Ubuntu?
And vice versa?
For example install apt-get on Gentoo and connect Ubuntu's repositories.
And if it is possible how can I do it? (at least in general terms)
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How to recursively build a package and its dependencies on a Debian-based system?
Basically I want
apt-get's dependency resolving ability, and
to compile packages with customized options (such as the loader path).
Can that be done with the apt-* suite? If not, perhaps I can try ...
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Size of download in MacPorts
When i try to install a package through apt-get on linux, it shows me the total amount to be downloaded and the space that will be used after install. Is there a way to view this information while ...
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Installing Mercurial on Debian using apt-get
I am trying to install Mercurial using apt-get on a web server running Debian. I would prefer to have the latest stable version of Mercurial but I would be happy with anything reasonably recent. I ...
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Why does apt-get remove gnome if I remove a package?
If I remove transmission-gtk it shows a long list of packages. It want to remove gnome completely. Is there a meta package I can install to keep my system together and I can remove an application that ...
