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 older version of gcc using apt-get
i am trying to install GCC version 3.2 using apt-get. But it complains the following
root@chid-VirtualBox:/home/chid/Downloads# apt-get install gcc=3.2
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...
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libgphoto2-2-dev is installed, but pkg-config wont list it. Deb Wheezy new install
I am trying to use node-gphoto2 from npm, but I am having trouble with the libgphoto2-2-dev dependency. I've installed it, but pkg-config says it's not there.
$ sudo aptitude search gphoto
p ...
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Why does aptitude include Minesweeper? [closed]
Any of the more observant of you will have noticed that aptitude(8) contains the game Minesweeper, accessable from the Actions menu.
Is there a particular reason or some history as to why this was ...
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Upgrade mysql 5.5.2 to stable version
I have ubuntu 11.10 server, and i have installed mysql 5.5.2 using aptitude. but this version of mysql is not stable and i am facing a lot of problems in it. now i am thinking in upgrading it to ...
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Linux, Debian, Wheezy, Aptitude/DPKG consistency check
In a foolhardy and stupid attempt to solve space issues on my desktop machine, I on purpose deleted Spotify from /opt before realizing that I could remove it using the package manager. After deleting ...
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Having trouble installing VLC-2.0.3-5 on Debian
I know that the package is in the repository squeeze-backports, so I added that to my sources.list file.
One apt-get update later, I attempt to use
sudo apt-get -t squeeze-backports install vlc
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Removing iceweasel from Debian
On Debian Wheezy, when trying to remove Iceweasel, aptitude suggests, both when I try it via GUI and via aptitude remove iceweasel to also remove the following:
1) gnome ...
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ubuntu gcc upgrage failed
I followed these instructions to install gcc/g++ 4.7 on Ubuntu 12.04.
None of the commands produced any output, except update-alternatives --config which said
There is only one alternative in link ...
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How to find out what files will be installed in the filesystem when installing a package with aptitude?
In my case I want to do aptitude install wireless-tools but want to know which files will be installed and where in the filesystem before I install the package.
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Linux server broken packages
So, I'm trying to install the PHP5 cURL package on a Ubuntu Lucid 10.04.3 server. My concern is that there are broken packages on this server and if I install this package with the broken packages ...
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How to purge a package AND its installed dependencies?
I only want to delete the dependencies if they are not required by any package installed since then.
For example, when I installed subversion, it also installed some libs:
libapr1:amd64
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apt-get install: Error: Timeout was reached?
What has gone wrong if this error message appears AFTER apt-get has finished downloading and installing packages?
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Processing triggers for menu ...
Error: Timeout was reached
Edit: This ...
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Debian download package and dependencies for different architecture
I have a clean i386 install of Debian on my laptop which I need to install ndiswrapper to get the internet on it working.
I have a amd64 Debian install on my other laptop with working internet.
How ...
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Postgresql has broken apt-get on Ubuntu
On ubuntu 12.04, whenever I try to install a package using apt-get I'm greeted by:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
postgresql-9.1 : Depends: postgresql-client-9.1 but it is not going ...
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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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Aptitude not updating/upgrading
Using aptitude is supposed to be the easiest thing in the world. but I've been messing it up somehow. I've recently added backports and non-free to sources.list to try to get my audio working, but as ...
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Installing ruby1.8 failed (unable to access dpkg)
I was trying to install ruby on my remote server(this is a vm machine(debian) in a esxi server . ) I got this error:
The Command:
sudo apt-get install ruby1.8
Error :
W: Not using locking for read ...
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Searching for packages that are (not) from a certain repository URL
I basically want to do the same thing, as asked for here, which is searching for packages that a re not from a certain repository. Just like this:
aptitude search "?installed?not(?origin(Debian))"
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apt-get dependency issues
Getting a bit of trouble from apt-get, if I try to install anything I get.
apt-get install libcgi-session-perl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state ...
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How do I remove configuration files for a program that's not installed?
I'm basically looking for an apt-get purge for programs that are already uninstalled.
(I'm running Debian squeeze and using aptitude for package management.)
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Making aptitude work properly through a proxy invoked with sudo
I use Debian 6.
I'm sitting behind a proxy, so I configured Debian to use that proxy. Browsing and any HTTP and FTP activity through GUI works OK.
I wanted to update my package repository so I typed ...
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How to add a repository for only one package?
I want to add a repository but only for one package. For example, if I want to install 'ubuntu-tweak', I have to do this:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get ...
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Installing graph-tool and aptitude dependencies
I'm trying to install graph-tool.
I've changed sources.list with the "precise" repository option. I can now run sudo apt-get install graph-tool, but I get the message graph-tool : Depends: ...
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Lot's of errors by insserv on apt-get operations after trying to install tomcat
I wanted to install tomcat on my Debian 6.0.4 machine. I tried apt-get install tomcat6-user which worked fine. But then I changed my mind about the user installation and wanted to install the package ...
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Downgrade my current NVidia driver to a specific version
Recently my NVidia driver was updated from 270.41.06-0ubuntu1 to 270.41.06-0ubuntu1.1, but I have troubles with it. Is there an easy way to rollback with aptitude to the version before?
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Lost Power During apt-get install, Can't Resolve Missing Dependencies
I tried to install mercurial today, and the power went out. Now, when I try to install any packages, it complains about a couple of different things:
>$ sudo apt-get install mercurial
[sudo] ...
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Install a software package for Ubuntu version X on the Ubuntu version Y
Unfortunately I am a total newbie when it comes to Ubuntu package installation and dependencies.
I wonder: Can I install a certain version of a pre-compiled software package in Ubuntu version Y, if ...
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Install cython on python 3.x
I need to install cython for python3.x .I have an ubuntu installation with python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.2 on it. Trying to apt-get the cython package installs pymodules only in 2.x versions. Is there a way ...
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How to avoid aptitude to repair broken packages?
I'm using a version of rubygems needed for running one of the application of my server installed this way :
dpkg --install /tmp/rubygems1.8_1.3.7-2_all.deb
At each usage of it, aptitude want to ...
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Sudo aptitude search produces bus error
I've got a strange aptitude error while performing search:
$ sudo aptitude search pcre
Bus error
$ sudo aptitude search libpcre
Bus error
$ sudo aptitude autoclean
Bus errorackage lists... 0%
What ...
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Make aptitude quiet
I'm looking for a way to make aptitude(1) be quiet when installing packages. I want it to only produce output on explicit errors. The -q option does this is most other programs, but apparently not in ...
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Unable to upgrade libc6 on Debian
I tried to update a system of mine, with which I had no problems whatsoever, and ran into problem while executing a aptitude full-upgrade. The update ran through normally till I got this error :
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How do I tell aptitude or apt to offer a particular version of lpr?
I seem to have a weird version of lpr installed (one that doesn't cope with -o, see also this question). On all my other machines that run the same debian squeeze, the proper version of lpr is ...
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Linux: Aptitude: Howto replace a dependency by another?
I have a package named libqt4-designer and another package named libqt4-47-designer.
When I do aptitude remove libqt4-designer, Aptitude wants to remove kdesudo and many other applications.
How can I ...
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What does the “ip” status in the aptitude package list mean?
What does the ip status in the aptitude package list mean? For example:
$ aptitude search some_package
ip some_package description
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`Ffmpeg` aptitude install seems to break packages.
I tried to install ffmpeg because I thought/think it is needed for compiling OpenCV. However, when trying to do that I think I screwed up. How can I undo what I did?
$ sudo aptitude install ffmpeg
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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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If aptitude is more preferable then why does bash advise apt-get? [duplicate]
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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Ubuntu - compare original package and installed parameters
I'd like to compare the actual config files for, say, Apache and the ones provided in the original package.
The purpose is to have a list of modifications since initial installation because I didn't ...
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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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Local cache for apt packages
I have a desktop and laptop at home, both running the same flavour of Debian Testing. How can I configure apt on the laptop so that it first tries to download the packages from the desktop before ...
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In the output of “aptitude update”, what do “Ign” and the other codes mean?
When I run sudo aptitude update from the console, I see output with lines such as this:
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release.gpg [198B]
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ ...
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Problem adding public key for apt
I was trying to get the official mongodb for Ubuntu, following the instructions at http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Ubuntu+and+Debian+packages
After adding the deb ...
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How do I pass a list of packages to aptitude and resolve conflicts?
How do I pass a list of packages to aptitude so that I can resolve the conflicts interactively?
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aptitude: How to search for nothing but the full name of a package?
Searching for short package names (e.g. at or mc) in aptitude (not at command line but within the interactive tool) is annoying because I don't know a trick to avoid getting hits for plenty of ...
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“aptitude safe-upgrade” calculating something. Worth waiting?
# aptitude safe-upgrade
<calculating something>
<a day passed, I connected additional swap space>
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open: 310823; closed: 418353; defer: 82; conflict: 173
<and counting... It eats ...
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How do I stop display and another email of changes when running aptitude full-upgrade after receiving apticron email notifying of the same changes?
My home server used to run Ubuntu 10.10 server with apticron installed, which periodically (via cron) sends emails when updates to your installed packages are available. This email includes a list of ...
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E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on util-linux
I had an older version of Ubuntu installed. To upgrade I replaced /etc/sources.list with one from another machine running 10.04.
I then ran:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
The upgrade ...
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Annoying apt dpkg error
Setting up alsa-driver-linuxant (1.0.23.1) ...
Building modules for the 2.6.35-22-generic kernel, please wait... done.
ERROR: Build failed. Please review the build log at ...
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Terminal.app characters set changes — completely illegible
I was just ssh'd into my server (Ubuntu 10.04.2), and I ran aptitude (in interactive mode). Once I pressed one key (one of the letters, g I believe), it turned into this (not just the SSH session; ...
