Questions tagged [apt]
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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How do I ask apt-get to skip any interactive post-install configuration steps?
I have a server build script which uses apt-get to install packages. It then puts pre-written configuration files directly in place, so the interactive post-install configuration dialog in packages ...
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List of files installed from apt package
How do I get a list of files that were or will-be installed when I apt-get a package? Conversely, can I find what package(s) caused a particular file to be installed?
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How to remove the "installed manually" flag and revert to "automatically installed" with apt-get?
To compile something, I needed the zlib1g-dev package to be installed so I launched an apt-get install zlib1g-dev.
apt-get informed me nicely that the package was already auto-installed because of ...
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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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How do I get the history of "apt-get install" on Ubuntu?
I am about do move a server from one Ubuntu box to another. I'm not cloning the old box to the new; I'm creating a new system and will move data as needed. I want to install all the software that I ...
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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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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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Automate the installation of postfix on Ubuntu
My system configuration script does an apt-get install -y postfix. Unfortunately the script is halted when the postfix installer displays a configuration screen. Is there a method to force postfix to ...
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What does "debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed" mean?
I have just installed Debian and I was just installing some packages using apt-get instal when I saw this message:
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
What does ...
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What does -qq argument for apt-get mean?
I just received a Vagrantfile and post install bash script. The vagrantfile downloads standard Ubuntu from Ubuntu Cloud but I found something in the bash script.
Few lines of script reads as:
apt-...
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How do I enable non-free packages on Debian?
How can I enable non-free packages on Debian? I want to install Sun's Java JDK but it's not available to me.
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How Often Should I Update our Linux Server?
I am responsible for managing both our production server (mail, web, database are all on one server) and our test server. Both are built on Debian. However as I am very new to system administration, I ...
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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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Given a debian source package - How do I install the build-deps?
I have a debian (well technically ubuntu) source package, i.e. the .dsc, the .tar.gz, etc., I want to build this. The dpkg-buildpackage fails, since I don't have all the build dependencies.
Normally ...
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Ubuntu Server message says packages can be updated, but apt-get does not update any [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
updates in amazon-ec2 ubuntu 10.04 server
When I log into an Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS server, I see the message:
42 packages can be updated.
18 updates are security updates.
But ...
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How do I show the actions that installing a .deb package will take?
I would like to be able to view the scripts/triggers associated with a package due for upgrade so that I can tell, for example, whether it will result in the web server being restarted. I can't find ...
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Is there any way to get APT to install packages to my home directory?
Is there any way to get APT to install packages to my home directory?
I don't want to make changes system wide.
Alternatively, are there any home-directory based linux package managers?
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Installing optional Nginx modules with apt-get
I currently have Nginx installed via the instructions on the Nginx site:
nginx=stable
sudo su -
add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/$nginx
apt-get update
apt-get install
I have configured Nginx and it has ...
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100% non-interactive Debian dist-upgrade
Is there a way to do an apt-get dist-upgrade in Debian that not only automatically answers "yes" to all questions asked, but also uses reasonable defaults as answers to questions that are ...
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apt-get update/upgrade list without changing anything
I would like to view what packages are available for update/upgrade without actually changing any files becuase there are some packages I wouldn't like to update. Would it then be possible to apt-get ...
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Passing default answers to apt-get package install questions?
I'm trying to write a configuration script for new servers, and one of the first steps is to install a series of required packages, such as MySQL, phpMyAdmin, etc. using apt-get install However, when ...
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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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Linux: how to restore config file using apt-get/aptitude?
I've occasionally lost my config file "/etc/mysql/my.cnf", and want to restore it. The file belongs to package mysql-common which is needed for some vital functionality so I can't just purge &&...
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Can someone clarify Ubuntu (Debian) dist-upgrade for me?
I've got an Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server. There are several packages which are "kept back" ("the following updates have been kept back") when I do an apt-get upgrade. It's my understanding that I can do ...
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How do I see the changelog for a debian/ubuntu deb package?
I'm running Ubuntu and I have a deb file installed. I've made deb packages before, so I know there is a debian changelog (debchange). Is there anyway to see the debian changelog for any package that I ...
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yum equivalent to apt-get upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade?
I'm a *.deb guy and I feel quite uncomfortable while managing rpms.
I'm used to run apt-get upgrade in my debian based servers for "normal" upgrades and apt-get dist-upgrade for allowing kernel ...
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How to disable "WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface..." [closed]
I'm trying to write a script which will output the number of upgrade-able packages from apt. However it keeps giving me this warning with it also:
# sudo apt update | grep packages | cut -d '.' -f 1
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How to get a list of security updates on the command line in Debian/Ubuntu
In the GUI tool you can get a list packages with security updates. Can this be done on the command line in Debian or Ubuntu?
Normally I might use "apt-get upgrade" which would show me what is being ...
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Cannot install openjdk-8-jre-headless on Debian Jessie
This Friday I saw that I had 2 held back packages for some reason when I ran apt-get upgrade, so naturally I did what any inexperienced sysadmin would do and uninstalled the packages in the hopes that ...
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How to automate changed config files during apt-get upgrade in Ubuntu 12
I like to use "knife cloudstack server create ..." to build a new VM. My bootstrap template starts off with an "apt-get update" and "apt-get -y upgrade".
The upgrade then halts with:
10.190.113.11 ...
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How do I get apt-get to reinstall a package and run the set up scripts?
So I installed mailutils (apt-get install mailutils) and when I did a nice little setup screen popped up and started asking me questions. I guess I screwed up and cancelled out before I had all the ...
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How to Undo apt-get remove?
I know it is funny situation but i removed python with all associated programs from Ubuntu using sudo apt-get remove python?
Obviously i can install back python, but it will take me a lot of time to ...
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How to tell which Ubuntu package a tool is in
As a concrete example I want to be able to take a particular tool that isn't installed (say nslookup) and be able to tell which package I need to install when the following fails:
apt-get install ...
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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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Automatically keep current version of config files when apt-get install
I need to automatically install a package with its config file already present on the server.
I'm looking for something like:
apt-get install --yes --force-yes --keep-current-confs mysql-server
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Running apt-get autoremove with ansible
I maintain a flock of EC2 servers with ansible. The servers are regularly updates and upgraded using the apt module.
When I manually tried to upgrade a server, I received the following message:
$ ...
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apt-get update getting 404 on debian lenny
Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list
###### Debian Main Repos
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
###### Debian Update Repos
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates ...
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Disable prompts while installing a Debian package
How can i disable totally the prompts that appear while installing a Debian package, i've used all the options that i've found but there are some packages that are still prompting.
I'm using this ...
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How to find files in a Debian system not installed or created by dpkg?
I've installed some things manually in the past and would like to weed out all related files. So, I need a way to automatically find all the files (in /usr, for example) that are not included in any ...
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Can I have two versions of the same package in an apt repository?
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 across my entire environment. To make code deploys easier, we are implementing a private apt repository where we can deploy builds of our code.
One of the requirements of ...
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Managing cluster of linux computers behind firewalls
My company's product is essentially a Linux box (Ubuntu) sitting in somebody else's network running our software. Up to now we had less than 25 boxes in the wild and used TeamViewer to manage them.
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Debian. How can I securely get debian-archive-keyring, so that I can do an apt-get update? NO_PUBKEY
I have a catch 22 trying to:
# apt-get update
[... good lines omitted]
W: GPG error: http://backports.debian.org lenny-backports Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because ...
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Wrong version of pg_dump on Ubuntu
I originally installed postgres 9.2 on Ubuntu and later upgraded to 9.3 according to the instructions here: http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/ubuntu/ (using the postgres apt repository).
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Debian/Ubuntu - How to restore /var/cache/apt structure after deleting it?
I was running out of space on an Ubuntu server, so I did this command to save space
sudo rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives
However now when trying to do things with apt, I get the following errors:
E: ...
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APT FATAL -> Failed to fork
I saw a lot of questions regarding this, but mine seems a little different.
Here's what I receive:
/etc/cron.weekly/apt-xapian-index:
FATAL -> Failed to fork.
run-parts: /etc/cron.weekly/apt-...
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wheezy-updates on archive.debian.org returns 404 Not Found
I have an old test machine on Debian Wheezy that I can't really update right now.
Debian Wheezy repositories were archived in February. So I want ahead, and updated my /etc/apt/sources.list from
deb ...
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Is it usually safe to run "apt-get upgrade" (in terms of stability) on a production server?
I often log into my Ubuntu 12.04.2 server (with Postgres 9.2.4 running with live production data) and see something akin to:
4 packages can be updated.
4 updates are security updates.
This happens ...
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Debian 5.0 (lenny) apt sources fail?
For the past few days, I couldn't update our apt-sources on Debian 5.0 (lenny). I get the following errors.
W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 ...
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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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Why does the command 'apt install php' try to install Apache?
I'm trying to install WordPress + LEMP on my Ubuntu 18.04. I have no interest in installing Apache. Why does the PHP installer assume I do?