Questions tagged [apt]
The Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) is a package management system for Debian, and a set of tools for manipulating that system.
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Difference in using gdebi or apt for local deb Package Installation
Back in the days, if you wanted to install a locally downloaded .deb package with remote dependencies to further packages, dpkg and apt-get where not really suited, for this scenario.
Then I became ...
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How can I create an apt repository mirror on a network that is isolated from the internet?
I have a network that has no internet connectivity from any of the devices. The only way I can get data on it from the outside world is via a USB mass storage device (USB stick, external hard drive, ...
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apt-mirror always wants to download
apt-mirror is always trying to download ~430MB (every day).
Downloading 4 dep11 files using 4 threads...
Begin time: Wed Jan 16 09:04:43 2019
[4]... [3]... [2]... [1]... [0]...
End time: Wed Jan 16 ...
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Using apt why do I get file 'network_proxy.conf' in directory '/etc/apt/preferences.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension
I get the following warning when I try to install packages.
N: Ignoring file 'network_proxy.conf' in directory '/etc/apt/preferences.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension
Using apt why do I ...
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Install old version of package Firefox-ESR on Ubuntu
I would like to install Firefox v52 ESR on Ubuntu 16.04 in order to access a legacy Java applet. The current version Firefox 60 ESR no longer allows me to do that.
In effect, I would like to apt-get ...
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Debian 9 Stretch install new gsmartcontrol from special repo
echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/alex_sh/Debian_9.0/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:alex_sh.list
apt-get update
Ign:1 http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/...
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Error installing nginx with passenger on Debian 9
I am in the process of upgrading a Debian installation to version 9 and I am facing problems getting nginx with passenger to run. The issue is with trying to install libnginx-mod-http-passenger, ...
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Ubuntu 16.04, uninstalled python, now vim is broken and I can't fix it
I was having some problems with conflicts between my Anaconda python installation and my system Python on Ubuntu 16.04, so I decided to remove the system python packages. Apparently that was a bad ...
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Aptitude - choose resolution strategy (ie. upgrade-to-unstable before remove)
Is it possible to choose default (or per-launch) aptitude "unmet dependencies" resolution strategy?
For example to have aptitude first offer upgrade-to-unstable/install-from-unstable (sid) than ...
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Not enough space in /var/cache/apt/archives/
I attempted to install the texlive package, but it could not finish the installation properly. When I then tried to continue on, it almost finished installing everything, but the texlive-publishers-...
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Why can't I install rust-doc?
I just installed rustc successfully, and saw, apt suggested I got rust-doc also.
$ sudo apt install rust-doc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information......
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apt-get upgrade not working after upgrade from stable to testing: error cycle with libc-bin package
I upgraded from debian stable to debian testing, and now I am not able to do apt-get upgrade anymore.
When I do that I get this error:
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-6) ...
dpkg: cycle found ...
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Unmet dependencies for PostgreSQL 10 under Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS (xenial)
Following official instructions in https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/ubuntu/, I got following error:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
postgresql-10 : Depends: postgresql-...
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“apt upgrade” over SSH: This frontend requires a controlling tty
When upgrading our linux servers, I issue a command like this from one of our management servers:
ssh server1.mycompany.com apt upgrade
Under certain circumstances, I get this output from the ...
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make apt-get less verbose
I´m on Debian 16.04 and built myself a shell script to simplify all the update stuff and I regularly call it with sudo:
apt-get -qy update
apt-get -qq upgrade
apt-get -qq dist-upgrade
apt-get -qq ...
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Failed to download only package and dependencies on Debian
I'm trying to download (download only, not install) some packages and it's dependencies so I can install them later offline. I was told to use the command apt-get install --download-only [package].
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apt-get install is not working in WSL
Windows 10 Ubuntu bash failing to install packages. Whenever I try install new package with below command, getting same error.
root@VASI-HOME-PC:/mnt/c/Users/vadap# apt-get install atom
Reading ...
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Does --purge work after running apt autoremove?
If I'm understanding correctly, apt autoremove removes unused dependencies and adding the --purge option will remove other associated files (config files?). I'm kinda guessing because I haven't found ...
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How to install xserver-xorg in unattended mode?
When I install xserver-xorg package on Debian9, I have to manually input the package configuration for keyboard layout
How can I skip this step, or preconfigured the keyboard layout, so I can install ...
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ubuntu apt - why are the respositories accessed over HTTP?
So I was just updating my Ubuntu 18.04 system as usual, when I noticed that the apt repositories are being accessed via HTTP. A quick internet search confirmed that this is standard (at least with ...
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Installing Microsoft ODBC driver to Debian
So, my apt-get install returns with E: Unable to locate package msodbcsql (error code 100). I'm trying to access an SQL Server database with my system, and so I'm following Microsoft's instructions to ...
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How to apt install imagemagick version 7 instead of 6?
I'm trying to install the latest imagemagick on an Ubuntu 17.10 server. Imagemagick version 7 has been out for ages, but to my surprise, this:
sudo apt install imagemagick
Installs version 6.9.7 ...
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Why `apt-get purge` keeps trying to install things for me?
I try to purge the Oracle Java 8 JDK on Raspbian Stretch:
sudo apt-get purge oracle-java8-jdk
But it keeps trying to install replacements for me. For example, it keeps telling me "the following NEW ...
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Locking issues with “apt -y update && apt -y install python” in Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
I'm creating an Ansible Playbook to set up Ubuntu 18.04.1 VPSs and am encountering a problem where I can't reliably install Python.
Since Ubuntu 18.04.1 is not shipping with Python installed, I'm ...
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How to cache mint and google chrome with apt-cacher?
I have an apt-cacher-ng server running. I am telling apt to use it:
» cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01proxy
Acquire::http { Proxy "http://apt-cacher.mine"; };
Which is kind of working:
» sudo apt update
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Aptitude error with linux-image-extra-4.13.0-45-generic
I think my problem is very common, but I didn't fix the solution...
When I try to use apt (on Ubuntu 16.04 Server), I get this error :
The following packages were automatically installed and are no ...
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Install new package without removing old ones
I am using virtualbox5.1 that require libcurl3. When I tried to install curl, apt want to install libcurl4 and remove libcurl3 with virtualbox5.1. So how to install curl without removing libcurl3 and ...
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What happened to remaining 12 upgradable packages?
So, yesterday night, I ran an apt update which reported that 15 packages could be upgraded. I issues the apt upgrade command immediately and started upgrading the packages
docker-ce ffmpeg ...
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Remove gdal packages listed in apt-cache
I have a broken installation of gdal which is preventing me from installing the sf R package in my default conda environment (see https://stackoverflow.com/a/51369036/1840471). I'm trying to remove ...
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Failed to fetch error on apt-get update
I'm having an issue when running sudo apt-get update. I always get this error:
Err:1 https://deb.packager.io/gh/opf/openproject-ce xenial InRelease
Could not resolve host: deb.packager.io
Hit:2 ...
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How can I fix error during install a package with APT in Ubuntu
I was trying to install a package using APT and I got error:
UserName@PCname:~$ sudo apt-get install php7.2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... ...
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git clone and apt error : gnutls_handshake() failed
When cloning a git repository using git clone, I get the following error :
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/schacon/simplegit-progit/':
gnutls_handshake() failed: Public key signature ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 won't upgrade
I use Ubuntu 16.04 and want to upgrade.
root@desktop:/# lsb_release -a
LSB Version: core-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:core-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-noarch:security-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:security-9....
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Is there a simple low-overhead way to install deb packages in a virtual environment?
When I'm working on some arbitrary project I usually need a couple of packages. For all the python packages I create a virtualenv so that once I'm done I can delete the whole thing, and it does not ...
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How can I get past a “Repository is not signed…” message when attempting to upgrade Kali Linux from a mounted disk image?
I am trying to upgrade Kali Linux from 2017.2 to 2018.2 using an iso mounted in the Kali Virtual Machine.
So, what I did was I edited my sources.list file to:
deb file:///media/cdrom0 kali-rolling ...
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Raspberry Pi won't boot after restart during upgrade
I ran sudo apt upgrade on my Raspberry Pi (running Ubuntu Mate) over ssh. The connection timed out, but when I reconnected and tried continuing the upgrade, I got an error, so I tried to reboot, but ...
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How to apt-get install a package, ignoring dependencies?
For various reasons, I'm running some Debian systems with, shall we say, odd sets of packages installed. It's becoming almost impossible to do apt-get install to install anything; apt is always ...
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Debian, any way to list package sizes even for uninstalled ones
I know a very good command that can nicely list all package sizes:
dpkg-query --show --showformat='${Installed-Size} ${Package}\n'
However, that's only for installed packages. I can't make it to ...
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Where can I find the list of options for the apt-key adv command?
The manual page of the apt-key command has this:
adv
Pass advanced options to gpg. With adv --recv-key you can e.g.
download key from keyservers directly into the trusted set ...
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Gnuroot - apt install returns permission denied
After successfuly setting up debian stretch on Gnuroot, I wasn't able to install packages. Running dpkg -i on a package returns:
E: seteuid 0 failed - seteuid (13: Permission denied)
E: setegid 0 ...
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Apt says packages have been kept back, what to do? Solutions from other questions don’t work for me
I have the same problem as @Jarle Hammen Knudsen from this question, but the solutions that worked for them somehow don’t work for me. I originally posted this there, but it got deleted because it "...
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Understanding why apt-get will remove certain packages
Is there any easy way to figure out why apt-get will remove certain packages when doing apt-get remove on others?
I'm removing just a bunch of font files, and all of sudden apt-get thinks that my ...
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Using Go installed by non-default golang package on Debian
I am trying to install go 1.8.
The apt package of anything but golang-1.7 doesn't work. Golang-1.7 installs properly, golang-1.8 doesn't. Is the package in the repo wrong/incomplete?
Debian claims ...
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Upgrade Debian Squeeze to Stretch
Doing apt-get update gets the following errors:
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg
Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/contrib Translation-en
Ign http://security....
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apt is broken relying on broken perl version
while trying to upgrade packages on pibian I am running into the following issues, all issues to resolve it seem to involve upgrading perl which is not possible with apt relying on broken perl
At ...
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apt fails for debian jessie when going via apt-cacher-ng
When using a direct connection:
root@cc90861af3e4:/etc/apt/apt.conf.d# apt-get update
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates InRelease
Ign http://deb.debian.org jessie InRelease ...
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Debian postrm running twice and failing
The package:
CMakeLists.txt:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.7)
project(sim-runtime)
install(PROGRAMS ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/sim-runtime-info DESTINATION bin)
set(CPACK_GENERATOR "DEB")
set(...
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Why does 'apt/yum install' JUST NOT show actual package URLs?
I know there are commands to show package(.rpm/.deb) URLs without download:
#apt
apt download --print-uris PACKAGE
#yum
repoquery --location PACKAGE
yumdownloader --urls PACKAGE
But for god's sake, ...
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specific systemctl service is stopped after daily apt upgrades and clean activities
I have problem in multiple servers (it happened twice, one per month) where starting Daily apt upgrade and clean activities for some reason stops my specific service and then never starts it, so it is ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 can't run “sudo apt upgrade”
I've been using Ubuntu for a couple months now but just recently the command sudo apt upgrade has stopped working. I get the error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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