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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Automatically answer 'Yes' when using apt-get install
Is there a way to make apt-get install automatically choose "yes" upon the Do you want to continue [y/N]? confirmation dialog?
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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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Aptitude vs. apt-get: Which is the recommended (aka the "right") tool to use?
Some time ago I read that aptitude is the preferred tool for installation on Debian-based systems. But when you search around on how to administer a Debian-based system, then aptitude is rarely ...
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apt says packages have been kept back, what to do?
The output of apt-get upgrade is:
The following packages have been kept back:
certbot python-acme python-certbot python-certbot-apache python-cryptography python-openssl
What does this mean?
Should ...
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Ignore all dependencies for a specific package with apt-get
This is a very specific question which google didn't help answering.
I'm running Ubuntu 13.04 with apt 0.9.7.7ubuntu4 for amd64 compiled on Oct 3 2013 15:25:56.
I want to install Erlang from a .deb ...
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How to tell apt that dependencies are resolved manually?
Let's say there is a software I don't want to install through apt, but manually. (TeXLive, because I want to use the 2011 release and apt only has the 2009 version.)
Let's say there is another ...
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Kali Linux The following signatures were invalid
when I run this command on Kali Linux
sudo apt update
I get following error
Err:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-updates InRelease
The following signatures were invalid: ...
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How to download .deb package and all dependencies?
For all answers i found about this topic, the solution was to create, in a certain computer A where i need to install the package, a file containing all dependencies it needs and then downloading it ...
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apt-get update issue in Kali
I'm running Kali Linux in WSL2. It's a new installation (using wsl --install) but when I try to apt-get update I get the following error:
W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The ...
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Can I get dpkg to ignore an error returned from a post-installation script?
I am manually installing a .deb file (which I don't maintain) onto my Ubuntu system.
The package has a post-installation script which erroneously fails, and therefore the package is considered ...
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Windows 10 Disk Usage at 100% but no corresponding process shows in task manager
Over the past month (possibly more), I have noticed that my laptop (running Windows 10) frequently becomes almost unusably slow, especially after many days of not having turned it on.
I notice that ...
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E: Unable to locate package linux-tools-5.4.0-77-generic on WSL Debian 11
I'm following this oficial guide to Connecting USB devices to WSL2 but I'm stuck installing linux-tools-5.4.0-77-generic. I'm executing the $ sudo apt install linux-tools-5.4.0-77-generic command but ...
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wget throws a 'missing url' when trying to install a repository signature key
I am installing INetSim on Ubuntu and when running this command to install the signature key for the program:
sudo wget -O - http://www.inetsim.org/inetsim.org-archive-signing-key.asc | apt-key add -
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Non-interactive apt upgrade
I'm trying to provision a machine using Vagrant and plain bash scripts.
The two lines are:
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get update
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get upgrade -yq
However, ...
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apt-get update 404 Debian 5.0.4
Hi I have a NAS(My book live) with Debian 5.0.4 and when I run
apt-get update
I get the following error:
Err http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main Packages
404 Not Found [IP: 128.30.2.26 80]
Err ...
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Kali apt-get update fails with "Clearsigned file isn't valid"
I'm trying to do apt-get update at in result i am getting these errors, tried various methods, couldnt resolve. i need help with this error.
Get:1 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling InRelease [18....
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APT unable to locate sun-java5-jdk
I have following Ubuntu:
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
With following apt installed:
apt 0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.2 for i386 compiled on Jun 15 2012 14:41:15
This is content of sources.list:
deb http://...
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Removing libsqlite3-0 deletes Ubuntu
I have Ubuntu 13.04 in a Virtualbox, and getting
SQLite header and source version mismatch
In fact, for completeness, it's part of a wider problem with SVN, where svn update responds with
E200029: ...
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Debian: updating package lists with apt-offline, --simulate not understood for apt-get update
I can't use apt-offline to update my package lists, which means that I will get many 404s when trying to install older versions of packages that it thinks it's downloading from the .sig file it ...
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Debian: "apt install build-essential" fails because of unmet dependencies
Using Debian Stretch v9.11.
I try to install build-essential, but fails because of unmet dependencies:
sudo apt install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading ...
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KeePassXC is not upgrading to latest version on Pop!_OS 18.04
I've added KeePassXC's official PPA and apt knows about the latest version, but it's not installing it:
$ apt list -a keepassxc
Listing... Done
keepassxc/bionic,now 2.6.1-1ppa1~bionic1 amd64
keepassxc/...
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'apt-get install' ignores my specification to install particular version of package
I'd like to install particular version of libstd++6 with following command:
# apt-get install libstdc++6=4.9.0-8 -V
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state ...