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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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Re-install php incl. dependencies on Debian?
I have got a major problem with apt-get and php5 modules, which results into web-application specific errors. I think a Debian upgrade (6.0.7) here went wild.
I would like to downgrad php5... ...
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How can I fix the error “The value 'stable' is invalid for APT::Default-Release”?
After an upgrade from Debian Squeeze (stable) to Wheezy (testing), Synaptic fails with the following error:
E: The value 'stable' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not ...
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Debian - package is installed already but apt says “depends: x but it is not going to be installed”
I don't have a lot of experience with debian. I am troubleshooting a friend's debian squeeze setup who probably pasted both squeeze and wheezy sources in his sources.list. Since then I have corrected ...
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sources.list LMDE review
I want to create a sources.list which uses one fast mirror.
So I run netselect-apt. There comes in my first question: Does netselect-apt use ping or traffic-speed?
I trust that result and for example ...
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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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Debian set google-chrome as gnome-www-browser
I've recently set up Debian 6.0.6 and want to install google-chrome as the default web browser.
The problem is that I can't remove others browsers (Iceweasel particularly) because there is a ...
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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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Why apt-get cannot install software?
Each time I execute apt-get install (e.g. gzip) I get the problems of kind:
Depends: <some_package> but is not going to be installed
Depends: <some_package> but is not installable
For ...
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Why did I fail to install packages when using debian?
There is lots of messed up dependency. How can I resolve this problem?
It produces the following output:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, ...
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Is it possible to determine how a package was installed on debian?
Is there a way to find out how a package was installed on Debian?
I.e. see if it was manually installed or which package pulled it as a dependency.
This information should be available somewhere ...
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Will apt keep updating a package from unstable if I install it from there?
I installed a package using -t unstable to get a newer version. unstable is pinned at 50, testing at 900. If testing catches up with the version that I installed, will apt still keep getting the newer ...
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Eclipse version in Debian package directories too old
Ian Murdock, the founder of Debian, has commented that package management is "the single biggest advancement Linux has brought to the industry". (Wikipedia)
But for some reason I'm forced to install ...
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downgrading packages in debian
I have Debian stable disribution installed on my computer. Once I installed some packages from testing but now it causes some troubles so I would like to downgrade them.
I've tried next commands:
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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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“developer-stable” packages in debian?
I'm pretty new at debian, so bare with me. Some of the packages are pretty old in debian stable. For example, the version of iceweasel (firefox) included is 3.5.
But I don't want the version of ...
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How do I get a list of available (i.e. uninstalled) packages in Debian?
Essentially what I'm looking for is the Debian equivalent of:
yum list available
to show me which packages are available (though not currently installed). I'd prefer something that can be run from ...
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How to find out which versions of a package can I install on APT
Using APT, you can install a specific version of a package using:
apt-get install package=1.0
But you can't do
apt-get install package=1.*
So, how can I find out which versions are avaliable for ...
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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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pkg-config search path problems
This shell session says it all for me:
root@debianvm:/home/matt# echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH
/usr/lib/pkgconfig
root@debianvm:/home/matt# ls $PKG_CONFIG_PATH | grep libusb-1.0
libusb-1.0.pc
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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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Where do packages get installed in debian systems?
I recently installed expect on my Ubuntu system and cannot find the example code that is supposed to come with it. I searched /usr/lib /usr/bin/lib /lib...no luck. I guess it's about time I learned ...
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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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Reinstall debian while keeping installed packages and data
I am having some trouble with an installed debian on a machine. While I have all data backed up, the configuration of installed packages is also critical to me. Does anybody know a way to either ...
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How to easily edit control file in deb package
Is there a way to easily edit control file in deb package. Doesn't matter on which system (Linux, Mac OS X etc.) Maybe someone knows a good script to make it automated?
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Can Debian identify rarely used packages?
I'd like to find a tool that could tell me which Debian packages on my system have been rarely or never used, perhaps by looking at file lists and access times. This is to find candidates for ...
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Monitor new packages in installed repositories?
I'd like to know which new packages (brand new, not the updated ones) have appeared in my installed repos. Just in case there can be something useful :)
I guess it should be a simple bash script to ...
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How to find out the dependency paths?
For example, there are packages and their dependencies:
a -> b (a require b)
b -> c & d
x -> a
y -> x
z -> x
z -> x & y
Now, give c and z, there are two dependency paths:
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change “fakeroot debian/rules binary” output dir
I am building debian packages and I'd like the new package to be delivered in the project root folder . instead of in ../
Is there anyway of doing it without overriding debian/rules dh_builddeb? ...
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How do I find out which package owns a file?
How do I find out what Debian package a file came from?
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How do I find out which package owns a file? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I find out which package owns a file?
How do I find out what Debian package a file came from?
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kde frontend for apt
I'm recently installed kde in debian testing in my laptop, which is a good frontend to apt?
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How to create a debian split package when using debhelper
I have a debian package that I maintain whose source builds two separate pieces of software. I'd like to have it done so that it generates two packages when I build (foo-client and foo-server). The ...
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How to tell from what Ubuntu or Debian repository a package comes?
On a Debian-based system, including Ubuntu, how can one tell which repository a package will be downloaded from, without actually beginning the download? aptitude show and apt-cache info will show the ...
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Can it cause problems to switch from apt-get to aptitude?
I've been thinking about switching to aptitude, but I've heard people say "if you're already using apt-get, you should wait until your next installation to switch." Why do people say this? What sort ...
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Which Debian package architecture am I using?
What's the command to find out which Debian package architecture I'm using?
eg, on a 64 bit x86, I'm expecting something like amd64, i386 on 32 bit x86 and darwin-x86_64 from OSX 10.6 (via Fink).
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Unable to use dpkg to uninstall dependencies
I am trying to uninstall the package openssh-client using dpkg. I also have the packages openssh-server and ssh-askpass-gnome installed and want to uninstall those as well.
Currently I have the ...
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Installing Mercurial on Debian Lenny
today I've installed Mercurial on Debian, but then realized it was the 1.0 version that is not compatible with new the repository format. I'm not sure which course of action to take, install Mercurial ...
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How to search for debian packages with command line?
I do know http://packages.debian.org/ provide the search facillity.
The problem is how could I search the packages with just command line?
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Find what package a file belongs to in Ubuntu/Debian?
I frequently find myself missing a program, man page, or other file when working on my Ubuntu 8.04 system. Is there any simple way to look up what package contains a given file (whether it is ...
