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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Cache update error using playbook
I keep getting this error when running my playbook on Ubuntu 22.04LTS server and have been trying to fix it for sometime now but aren't making progress.
fatal: [MY IP]: FAILED! => {"changed&...
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Cannot install kubectl on Ubuntu - GPG Error
Hi I'm trying to install kubectl following the native package install instructions on the official site, but I get the following error when I try to update apt package list before installing kubectl:
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Why am I still getting package authentication warnings even after disabling validity check on Debian 8? [closed]
When I try to install a package on my (outdated) Debian 8 "Jessy" I get
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
After running
$ apt update
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What could be the reason that `apt update` says certificate is NOT trusted whereas curl says `SSL certificate verify ok`
I am trying to add docker to my Debian 11 bullseye installation.
until now, I have ran -
apt clean
apt update
update-ca-certificates
apt-get install -y ca-certificates
apt reinstall ca-certificates
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Cannot downgrade linux-image-amd64
Some time ago, I wanted to try the 5.10.127-2~bpo10+1 kernel on Debian
10 Buster system.
However, that kernel was not maintained nor patched by Debian any longer.
Now, new 4.19.x kernels no longer ...
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Automatize using bash downloading deb files and dependencies and later extracting them to a unique folder and compress it to use in a live filesystem
I am developing a Live filesystem and need to be able to download deb files with its dependencies which I manually do using:
apt download $(apt-cache depends --recurse --no-recommends --no-suggests \
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How do I fix amdgpu and amdgpu-dkms packages not installing?
I'm trying to install the amdgpu package and it throws a bunch of errors:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were ...
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Apt: list packages installed from a particular "component" (main/contrib/non-free)
I'd like to check which packages were installed from non-free component on my server, following the recent announcement by the Debian team
https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/...
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apt update throws warnings - how to fix?
I'm migrating a website to a fresh Ubuntu 22 server hosted by Rackspace. I'm doing some initial config and hardening and I start with the usual:
apt update
apt upgrade
The apt update command spits ...
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nodejs installation error in ubuntu
I am trying to install nodejs on a newly built Ubuntu VM(Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS), but getting the below error.
Preparing to unpack .../nodejs_16.19.1-deb-1nodesource1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking nodejs (16.19....
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Debian 10 fresh install => apt error "tiemout"
I'm trying to install sudo to allow users (like Ansible) to access the machine with sudo privileges though SSH. So far, I'm blocked with errors like this :
"Impossible d'initialiser la connexion ...
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Debain apt missing Ubuntu keyring?
Im on Kali Linux and the other day I was installing some packages with apt so I could run R code (if I remember correctly I installed r-base) and ever since then my apt has been acting up. Whenever I ...
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Ubuntu 22.04, Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3, getting "Illegal instruction" and "core dumped" error from apt
I have Ubuntu 22.04 Server, running on Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2640 v3 @ 2.60GHz
When trying to install packages apt complains about unment dependencies and suggests running apt --fix-broken install:
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What is the equivalent to "sudo apt autoremove" in CentOS?
I read this but there's no apt command in CentOS. So, how can I remove unused packages in CentOS?
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Ubuntu has wrong versions of packages can't upgrade python
I've just upgraded my Ubuntu from focal(20.04) to jammy(22.04), and now my python is broken. which causes a lot of headache all over, like Apt wont update and some applications won't start.
libpython3....
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error ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'lsb_release' when trying to run lsb_release -a
Seeing the following output when trying to run lsb_release on Debian:
(venv) vm-1671541226:/$ lsb_release -a
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 25, in <...
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Install .deb package only if version is higher
Is it possible to tell dpkg to only install a .deb if the new package version is higher than what's already installed on the system?
Example:
I have htop version 3.0.5 installed and I attempt to ...
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ubuntu: /bin/sh: apt: not found
I have a container on which I want to install ca-certificates, but despite being ubuntu, it doesn't recognize both apt and apt-get
~ # cat /proc/version
Linux version 5.4.0-109-generic (buildd@ubuntu) ...
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apt-get fails to resolve url in docker container, even though the container can resolve it just fine!
This is such a strange situation.
I'm trying to build an image, and apt-get update fails.
Network works fine though. DNS is fine, I can even wget the same urls just fine!!
See terminal output :
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Why would Dpkg::Options --force-confold be ignored?
I have been trying to suppress an interactive dialog with regards to modified config files and conflicts. I have been all over the search results, and everyone keeps copy and pasting the same exact ...
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apt-get update error in Debian 11 "Temporary failure resolving" and also "Failed to fetch"
This is what I get when I run the apt-get update on my debian 11 server.
Err:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease Temporary failure resolving 'deb.debian.org'
Err:2 http://packages.sury....
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ufw status prints "inactive", but log files say otherwise?
Alright so I'm running this Ubuntu 22.04 server, it's about 6 months mature now and has had a sparkling security record to date.
Today I SSH'd in just to check one of the UFW rules, and lo—
$ sudo ufw ...
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Installation of e2fsprogs under ubuntu breaks because of ./usr/bin/chattr
I have been running into an issue with the package of e2fsprogs under ubuntu for weeks. It keeps me from installing updates to my system and to upgrade the system.
I am using Ubuntu 18.04 on my server....
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How to set dependency of an external deb file in the deb file?
I need to create a deb file with just set two other deb files as dependency so that both of them will install before this deb file.
If it is a package available in apt repo, I can directly mention as -...
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Disable apt command for the particular sudo user
I am IT admin in the company. The developers ask to have sudo permission to execute sudo systemctl status/reload/start/stop serviceName to manage their app. But my boss doesn't want them to be able to ...
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How to install apt dependencies from setup tools?
I am trying to create deb package from python setup tools.
To do that, I tried adding install_requires as in this link
But it seems, this is for pip modules, not apt packages.
How or where to set ...
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Can I use a BASH script for apt-get post update?
Q: Can a post-update / upgrade bash script be executed when performing apt-get? I'm experiencing an error where the post-upgrade/update script is running sh & not bash.
See below for details.
I'm ...
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Make nginx look for credentials in "Proxy-Authorization" header, so it works with apt
I have an nginx in front of an apt-cacher-ng. The nginx's job is to terminate HTTPS and take care of authentication.
The issue is, that nginx will look in the Authorization header for credentials, but ...
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apt-get dist-upgrade keeping back packets
Running apt-get dist-upgrade on a Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS results in various packages being kept back:
root@localhost:/var/log/apt# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency ...
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Message printing after I apt-get install or needrestart about services, containers, user sessions and VMs
I've just put Ubuntu 22.04 on my server, and when I execute apt-get install x(where x a package I want to download) or needrestart, I get this message that I haven't found an explanation for.
Running ...
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Ondřej Surý's PPA - php7.4-xdebug also installs php8
OS: Ubuntu 20.04 focal (on the Windows Subsystem for Linux)
Kernel: x86_64 Linux 5.10.102.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2
Uptime: 1h 20m
Packages: 1612
Shell: bash 5.0.17
WM:
GTK Theme: Adwaita [GTK3]
Disk: ...
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When installing docker on Ubuntu, why isn't it as easy as apt-get install docker?
I've installed docker a dozen times on Ubuntu using the instructions on the docker website (7 commands including removing old versions, adding a gpg keychain etc). I always just powered through, but ...
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How are linux package are update internally is there a writeup around it
I work for a company that manage their own debian mirror. Today I was looking to update one of our packages on staging server i.e vnstat.
The currently installed version is 1.18-2 and latest version 2....
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Ubuntu Server 21.04 Update Error On apt update
I was trying to install a deb package which refused to run because of dependencies, after failed attempt to install the dependencies or OS updates i uninstalled the deb package. since there were a ...
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Volume group "luks" not found
OS: Parrot OS
VM: Qemu
Filesystem: Btrfs
This is caused due to an improper reboot before full apt upgrade.
After the reboot and entering in the Luks partition password. It successfully decrypts and ...
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After iptables to nftables conversion, unable to connect to http nextcloud server and apt doesn't connect
I want to enable access to my nextcloud server and be able to use apt update. I used to be able to before my iptables to nftables conversion. However, after the conversion, its no longer possible. ...
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Unable to run `apt update` on Ubuntu 21.10
I am experiencing the following error when running apt update which is causing me to be unable to update the Ubuntu server.
~$ sudo apt update
Ign:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish-security ...
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apt clean apt autoremove
So i would like to remove unwanted files ( /var/cache and old kernels in /boot) to free up some space using puppet script and add this script to puppet master to automatically run once every month. I ...
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Cloud-init / cloud-config to install node.js
From reading the cloud-init docs (https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/modules.html#apt-configure), it appears that this user-data should add the Nodesource source and key for apt, and ...
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Use ansible to remove all packages associated with a repository
I use the ansible apt_repository module to add and remove Ubuntu repositories. Sometimes, I find it necessary to switch from one repository to an alternate one. And I'd like to have all packages from ...
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Conflict between mariadb-server-core-10.3 and mariadb-server-10.3 1:10.3.30+maria~bionic on Ubuntu 20
I'm trying to upgrade my server and I'm in a weird state where mariadb-server-core-10.3
and mariadb-server-10.3 1:10.3.30+maria~bionic is conflicting with each other, and possibly maybe involving ...
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Enabeling all deb-src apt repos via a script?
With apt-add-repository, I can add a new apt repository URL with the command line.
Is there a good command to turn on all the deb-src repositories for all the configured apt repos?
I am trying ...
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`dpkg -l` to only show installed packages?
On Debian/Ubuntu, dpkg can show me packages, include the version and what's installed (e.g. dpkg -l postgresql\*). But that shows all packages that it knows about, whether installed or not.
Is it ...
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apt-get stuck at downloading deb file at 33%, but wget+dpkg is OK
I use Google Cloud Artifact Registry to serve a public deb package. Recently apt-get stucks when downloading the deb file at 33%:
# apt-get install pkg_name_placeholder
Reading package lists... Done
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Install pip3 on new Ubuntu Server 22.04 install (Raspberry Pi)
I have just installed Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS on my RPi, and I cannot for the life of me get pip3 to install. (It should already be there, no?)
Here's my /etc/os-releasse:
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 22....
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Disable Ubuntu 22.04's scaning processes / candidates after package upgrades
Ubuntu 22.04 scans running processes (for use of old libraries) after doing apt. It will say 'Scanning processes' and 'Scanning candidates':
We have servers that (unfortunately) need to run tens of ...
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Debian: how to install a package without a specific dependency (git without Perl)
I am trying to install an apt package without one of its dependencies (specifically, git without Perl to reduce Docker image size by >50MB).
I can think of two options:
installing the package ...
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install mysql in debian 9
I need to install MySQL 7.5 on Debian 9 stretch, I tried to download it using PPA but when I try to update and complete download I get error apt-key expire.
Err:2 http://repo.mysql.com/apt/debian ...
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apt-get upgrade vs unattended-upgrades under ubuntu 20.04
unattended-upgrades seems to skip certain upgrades, e. g. google chrome upgrade.
A subsequent call of apt-get upgrade then finds and installs the ugrade.
Does this mean, I must schedule apt-get ...
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Automating options when using apt-get install
I have this step in my dockerfile
RUN apt install libpq-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libldap2-dev libssl-dev -y
And when I build it, it stuck with the prompts
How do I get pass this with pre-...
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