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I have a server which is getting a bit outdated as I haven't updated it since a few months.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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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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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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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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How to add package and its dependencies to my own apt repository
I'm setting up an apt repository to manage dependencies for servers that I build. I'm doing this because I want to be able to repeatably build the exact same server over and over again.
There are ...
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apt-get update can not connect
i run a dedicated ubuntu 10.04 server.
i use kvm/libvirt/virsh to run a virtual machine that's also ubuntu 10.04.
i bridged the network (1 of 2 IPs is routed via NAT to the LAN, where my VM ...
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Fatal: module iscsi_trgt not found — trying to get my iscsi target to run on debian
Sorry about the formatting below...
Linux Microknoppix 2.6.39.3 #21 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jul 23 09:48:39 CEST 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
modprobe iscsi_trgt
results in
FATAL: Module iscsi_trgt not ...
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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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Add image support to GD on Debian
I've recently replaced our aging (386) monitoring machine with something a bit more recent and because I had driver issues with CentOS I decided to use Debian 6 (Squeeze) instead. While in the past ...
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How do I get apt-get to ignore some dependencies?
How do I make apt-get ignore some dependencies? For example, I wanted to install mailx so I can use it to send email from cron scripts/report-generating tools. However, installing mailx also installs ...
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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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Regarding Reinstalling PostgreSQL
I was using PostgreSQL 8.4. I tried removing it through Synaptic Manager and then I tried to install 9.1, but I still version 8.4. I deleted all the files associated with postgresql. Now I am unable ...
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E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on libattr1 ? in Ubuntu
I am working with Ubuntu latest version. While installing via apt-get install i tried to abort that by pressing Ctrl+Z. It terminate successfully ;). But next time when i tried to use apt-get, i got ...
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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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`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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Find last time update was performed with apt-get
I need to find the last time that the
apt-get update
command was run on my server. How can I determine this information?
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list all packages from a repository in ubuntu / debian
is there a command to see what packages are available from a certain ppa repository?
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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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Applications not installing due to unmet dependencies
I was running Apache on Linode. I recently shifted to Lighttpd and removed apache, now whenever I try to install any application I get the following error.
ivineet:~# apt-get install subversion
...
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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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What is the fastest way to install Python 2.6 on an Ubuntu 8.04 server?
I just got an Ubuntu server set up, and it seems to have come with Python 2.5. I've been developing my app in Python 2.6, but apt-cache search ^python seems to not contain 2.6. What is the fastest way ...
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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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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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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 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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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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MySQL installation and removal issue
root@administrator-desktop:/etc/mysql# sudo apt-get remove php5-mysql
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package php5-mysql is not ...
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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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I accidentally deleted /etc/nginx, reinstalling nginx won't recover it
I'm on Ubuntu and I was trying to recover the original settings of /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default when I accidentally deleted the entire folder. Uninstalling and reinstalling nginx through apt-get ...
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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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How can I manage apt efficiently on multiple machines?
I manage around 30 Ubuntu servers using puppet. I've seen many references to cron-apt and apticron as approaches to keeping their packages up to date but I haven't been able to find a way to ...
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apache 2.4 on debian squeeze via apt
Is there a source like dotdeb.org which offers the apache 2.4 packages for Debian squeeze? I'm looking for Apache modules. I want to install the modules from this source and then the actual version of ...
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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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How do you use apt-get to only install critical security updates on ubuntu?
How do you use apt-get to only install critical security updates on ubuntu?
We'd like to only upgrade packages that need to be upgraded for security reasons, without upgrading all other packages.
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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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dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'x' missing
I get this warning for several packages every time I install any package or perform apt-get upgrade. Not sure what is causing it; it's a fresh Debian install on my OpenVZ server and I haven't changed ...
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ack-grep to ack in ubuntu
I was just wondering, i recently installed ack (ack-grep in ubuntu), and i can't figure out how to just type in ack to get ack-grep (for some reason ack is taken up by a kanji translator thing).
Is ...
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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 ...
