APT, the Advanced Packaging Tool, is Debian's high-level package management system. It is also used by several other Linux-based and Debian-based operating systems.
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Concern about “apt-get update” in production server
I have a server which is getting a bit outdated as I haven't updated it since a few months. I wanted to try cron-apt but first wanted to do it manually, so I issued a
sudo apt-get update
as a ...
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Including pending update list in motd [migrated]
How would you include the list and / or count of pending updates in the welcome banner?
Eg.
username: User
password: *****
Hi 'User', welcome on 'localhost'
There are 8 pending updates, you need to ...
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Failed mysql upgrade to 5.5 on debian wheezy
When upgrading debian squeeze to wheezy, the upgrade of mysql to mysql-server-5.5 fails:
# apt-get dist-upgrade -u
...
Setting up mysql-server-5.5 (5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1) ...
[ ok ] Stopping MySQL ...
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Error after trying to install php5-mcrypt on Debian Squeeze
I want to install php5-mcrypt, but I get this error after entering a
apt-get install php5-mcrypt
Error:
php5-mcrypt : Hängt ab von: php5-common (= 5.3.3-7+squeeze15) aber 5.3.9-1~dotdeb.2 soll ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Unmet Dependencies when running apt-get [duplicate]
When running apt-get I keep getting errors regarding unmet dependencies.
sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
...
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Prioritise repositories in Ubuntu
We have a few PPA sources on some of our servers which we stick into /etc/apt/sources.list.d . Some of these repos provide same packages (in terms of names) but different versions and possibly ...
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Can't install Nginx on Wheezy
I'm trying to install nginx on wheezy using this code in my deployment script:
echo "deb http://nginx.org/packages/debian/ wheezy nginx" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
echo "deb-src ...
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`apt remove` everything except nginx, its dependencies and packages vital to running the system
I have an Ubuntu server with the default package list installed. I'd like to uninstall everything that isn’t nginx, its dependencies, and any other packages required to boot to a tty and run nginx.
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problems with apt-get install [migrated]
I've installed Ubuntu recently and I've been trying to install some programs using apt-get but it never seems to work, not even apt-get update works, here's what I get when I try to install something, ...
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Debian Squeeze: apt-get hangs on download packages from our local repository
hope you guys can help me find out a solution to this problem that's causing me headache.
My company has a number of front end servers based upon Debian Squeeze, we also set up a local repository ...
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Configure apt to use proxy in vagrant box
I'm using Vagrant to setup a virtual machine for testing. I would like apt inside the virtual machine to use a proxy on the host machine to allow caching of all the downloads to persist between ...
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Can't pin Wheezy on Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE)
I'd like to have your advice on yet another pinning problem that hit me recently. I've been through man apt_preferences several times, and I can't find anything wrong in what I did.
I was having ...
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How to show uninstalled package size in Debian
Is there a way to show the package size without installing a package in Debian, using apt-get,dpkg or something similar (please don't say install YUM)?
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Removing MongoDB from Ubuntu
I recently started to mess with setting up ReplicaSets. After some testing and playing, I was wanting to remove MongoDB and all settings, and start with a fresh install on all systems to get it ...
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Script to install and activate backports on debian squeeze?
I am looking for a script that would enable debian backports for debian squeeze, something that I could just run and will enable me to install new packages like a decent version of mercurial after, ...
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dpkg-reconfigure: unable to re-open stdin: No file or directory
I am building a provisioning script for a ubuntu vagrant vm, on a ubuntu host, both 12.10 64bit When installing the following packages:
sudo apt-get -y install php5-xsl graphviz php-pear unison
I ...
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Installing keys with .DEB packages silently fails
I'm trying to create a .DEB package which will install a number of certificates and keys onto a system.
To do this, i've gone through the standard package creation process, and thrown two files, ...
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Force apt-get not to upgrade a custom package dkpg [duplicate]
I've created my own deb package for Redis 2.6.11 instead of the very old default version for Ubuntu. All works well except when I do an apt-get upgrade it tries to install what it thinks is the latest ...
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Apt-get hangs at first repo
When I perform an apt-get upgrade or apt-get update, I notice that it can take almost a minute when connecting to a repo.
For example, when doing a aot-get upgrade, it will be stuck for about a ...
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Difference between unattended-upgrade & apt-get dist-upgrade
Assume I need to write a cron job to automate the installation of security update daily, which command I should use for better reliability?
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installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
I found many complains with same error but for different packages. However, i couldn't understand essence of this error and how to fix it. Pls. help if you have any clue about it.
It appeared first ...
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Updating db server with no internet connection
I have a database server running Ubuntu 12.04. The db server is connected to a load-balancer(HAProxy) on a LAN network and the LB is connected to the internet. So the db server has no direct ...
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Debian apt-get update won't work
I have a Debian machine (Linux debian 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Feb 15 15:39:52 UTC 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux) running behind a NAT with a couple of ports forwarded for SSH and Web. I can access the web ...
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Apt-get error when upgrading mysql from running out of room
I ran out of room on my drive on an ec2 instance and it mounted the overflow /tmp space. I noticed this when I did an apt-get update/upgrade and the upgrade failed because it had no more room on tmp. ...
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How to apt-get install a package for Ubuntu Quantal from Ubuntu Precise 12.04
On Ubuntu Precise 12.04, the package osm2pgsql is currently at 0.70.5+r25090-2ubuntu2. However I need to install a newer version 0.80 but apt-get update does not provide the newer version.
Question: ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Server on VMWare - apt-get failing to hit repos
So, I have an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit server instance running on VMWare player. Everything appears fine at the surface. Even internet connectivity appears good as I can perform both pings out to ...
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ubuntu 12.04 LTS server/desktop very slow download for apt [closed]
I have recently installed a ubuntu 12.04 lts server and a ubuntu 12.04 lts Desktop for my organization.When i tried to do an apt-get update or try to install a package using apt, the download rate is ...
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Downgrade php5-cgi using APT on Debian
I have lighttpd install with PHP5.4 installed
I need to downgrade it to 5.3.2 (possibly older/newer) but I can't install it
I tried this
apt-get install php5-cgi=5.3.2
but it says "E: Version ...
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SSH session never closes when executing “apt-get install”
Problem
When running apt-get install in an SSH session, the session never closes. Example:
ssh user@target "sudo apt-get -y install my_package"
The my_package does get installed properly, but the ...
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Using snapshots with reprepro to enable rollbacks
I'm using reprepro to maintain a Private Package Archive of internal packages. There is no straightforward way to keep multiple version of a package available using reprepro (see here), but it does ...
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Apt-get constantly restarts percona setup
Every time I apt-get install something, Percona feels the need to run the "setup" script.
For example; I needed to install the monitoring client. As you can see, none of the packages should need to ...
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Search for installed unavailable packages (backports and 3rd party)
I would like to remove any packages that I installed from third party repositories. I recently installed some backports from PPA repositories, and I suspect one of them broke my Ubuntu 12.04 server ...
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TurnKey LAMP can't install PHP GD Library
When I try to install the GD Library for PHP on my TurnKey LAMP appliance, I get the following message:
root@lamp ~# apt-get install php5-gd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
...
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How to inform Ubuntu 12.04 apt-get about older installed version of php
I asked this on stackoverflow, but I think it was the wrong audience/forum
Recently installed php5.3.22 on Ubuntu 12.04 from an excellent install script. This works perfectly.
The issue I have is ...
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Debian // synchronize packages/version between multiple servers
I'm currently managing a dozen servers. apt-cacher-ng is installed on the development server to maintain the packages.
The idea is to have exactly the same version and number of packages on the ...
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how to pass parameters to puppet modules?
What is the best practice for configuration of puppet modules? I have puppet 2.7.11. I find this way quite messy, it looks like using global variables.
node default {
$always_apt_update = true
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Debian 6 Synaptic Package Monitor checkboxes are acting like no software is installed
I was playing with package manager on my debian squeeze, was trying to install php 5.4 instead of php 5.3 and now it acts like everything is removed, I dont see any green "checkboxes" on already ...
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apt-get authentication error in OpenVZ Debian container
Whenever I receive upgraded packages from security.debian.org, I get the following error:
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork apache2.2-common ...
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Statistical Information on Linux Desktop [closed]
Can someone tell me which program shows up the statistical information in the screenshot?
I want to integrate it on my installs :-)
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I manually deleted my /etc/php5/ config files and now they don't reinstall
I wanted a clean reinstall of php5-cli, php5-common, php5-fpm. So what I did was:
rm -rf /etc/php5
rm -rf /usr/local/lib/php5
rm -rf /usr/local/php5
rm -rf /usr/lib/php
apt-get autoremove php5*
...
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apt upgrade error on My Book Live [closed]
I have a WD My Book Live network drive (http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=280) on my LAN.
I can SSH on the network drive which seems to run Debian:
>> cat /etc/issue
Debian ...
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apt-get killed nginx (duplicate default server)
I am on Ubuntu 12.04, I have the latest stable version of nginx added to my ppa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable -y
It has been running perfectly for nearly a year. Today when I did an sudo ...
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Unattended upgrades doesn't upgrade (or does nothing at all)
I've been trying to make the package unattended-upgrades running under Debian GNU/Linux (7.0) with no success so far.
The steps I have followed:
Install unattended-upgrades
Enable it
sudo ...
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install package from debian backports pool
I want to upgrade my dovecote installation to version 2. I discovered the package here. I also already added deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main to my sources.list. ...
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apt-get proxy for specific repos?
Please bear with me, I've searched as best I can with no apparent solutions.
I'm behind my companies firewall, we have a couple of proxy servers that we can use to get out onto the big wide internet. ...
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Chef Opscode apt cookbook - apt-get install returned 100, expected 0
I'm running Chef solo (version 11.4.0) on a clean VPS with Ubuntu 12 installed, and I'm having some problems with apt. The problem was that any package command raised an error:
Chef::Exceptions::Exec
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Can't run any apt-get update without killing server
I have an ubuntu 12.04.2 that dies after I tried to do an upgrade on it.
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
So I run that and get the ...
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debsecan won't launch on debian wheezy
I've insalled the package debsecan in debian wheezy with 3.7.1 kernel.
when I try to run it it gives me this output:
error: while downloading ...
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Can't find the archive-keyring on amazon instance
Im relatively new to this so please bear with me ..
Im running an amazon instance with ubuntu 11.10
and after performing
apt-get upgrade
everything with my package manager went haywire
if i try ...
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apt-get upgrade will run on command line but not from cron bash script
Running the following commands on the command line works fine
$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state ...
