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Using aptitude to install extra php modules (after php has already been installed)?
I recently setup an Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS server for a client which uses a PHP based forum. It's all gone well, but now it seems I need to install a new php module to enable spell checking in the ...
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Getting date of last aptitude upgrade
I updated the packages on a debian server a while back using aptitude but I cant remember the exact date when that happened. Is there a way to determine this?
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"aptitude -f install" fails
using debian lenny and trying to do a "aptitude -f install"
I get this error message:
Can't exec "locale": No such file or directory at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encod ing.pm line 16.
Use ...
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How to Get a List of All Root / Main Installed Packages on Debian
Is there a way to get all "main" packages that were installed via aptitude in Debian? By "main" I mean the package names that were given to aptitude via the install command. The equivalent of a Gentoo ...
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Generating a record of the full(-ish) package management state
I'm about to make some system changes and I'd like to have a record of my current happy system state. Is there a convenient way to create a record of this? I'd like to keep track of info like
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Aptitude - find new versions of packages
How do I find out if new versions of installed packages exist without installing them via aptitude in non-interactive mode? Is there anything comparable to the MacPorts port outdated command?
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How to upgrade ClamAV on Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS?
I'm running a server on Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS, and when I installed ClamAV via aptitude, it installed version 0.94. That version has now been EOL'ed, but when I run "aptitude upgrade", it doesn'...
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apt-get, aptitude package version
How can I find out package versions available from repositories?
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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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Aptitude command on fedora
linux newbie here. I'm running Fedora 12 and I have a script for Ubuntu installing a bunch of packages using aptitude. I tried installing the packages using yum, but most of them aren't available.
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Update php 5.2.0 to 5.2.4 with aptitude
I would like to update my php 5 in my server. At this moment, I use php 5.2.0 so I want to update it to php 5.2.4 (not php 5.3). I tried to do this:
aptitude update
aptitude upgrade
63 packets were ...
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Unrespected pinning in Ubuntu with aptitude
I'm running an Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) system, but would like the beta Lucid repositories enabled for some packages I need bleeding-edge versions of. I'm trying to use apt-pinning so that they will ...
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Is it prudent to ignore all kernel updates on Amazon EC2 instances?
Given that it's impossible to "aptitude update" your way to a new kernel on an Amazon EC2 instance, I was wondering if it ever makes sense to apply kernel updates. My guess is no, and that I should ...
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How do I install the latest Sun Java JRE on Ubuntu Server 9.10?
Unfortunately, if I try to install sun-java via apt-get, it's not found in the repositories.
# apt-get install sun-java6-jre
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading ...
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What does apt's "failed in buffer_write(fd)" error message mean?
I have a server and am trying to do an apt-get upgrade, and get the following error message. What does it mean?
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-27-generic_2.6.24-27.45_i386.deb:...
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How can I list all installed packages from lenny-backports?
In Debian or one of its derivatives, how can I list all packages which I have installed from lenny-backports?
The closest I've come up with is:
aptitude search ~i~Alenny-backports
However, that ...
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How do I specify the MySQL root password non-interactively when installing via Aptitude?
aptitude install mysql-server while throw up a prompt asking for me to set the root password. I'd like to avoid this by specifying the password in the initial command. How do I do this?
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Is it possible to use aptitude on a redhat machine?
We're having to manage a server for a client that is running RHEL 4.
Is it possible to run aptitude on this server to install/manage packages?
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Why can't I uninstall mysql completely? look! it's still there
root@db2:/var/log/mysql# aptitude remove mysql-server --purge
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing ...
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Cannot install MYSQL using aptitude...can anyone tell me why?
It just stops and freezes after this.
The following packages will be upgraded:
libmysqlclient15off mysql-client mysql-client-5.0 mysql-common
4 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to ...
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apt-get install giving 404
I'm something of a ubuntu newb. I'm trying to get subversion, so I enter:
apt-get install subversion
I'm getting a 404 on subversion and all its dependencies. E.g.
Failed to fetch http://us.archive....
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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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How can I list which packages are from experimental?
I have a system which is a mishmash of testing and unstable and some from experimental.
How can I get a list of which packages I've installed from experimental?
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It is true that I shouldn't run apt-get and aptitude on the same machine?
I have been using apt-get for some years on Ubuntu now, and tried aptitude a few times. I have read in some blogs that once you have used one of the tools on your system, you should stick to it and ...
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Fedora, apt-get & aptitude
I am used to working on Ubuntu based systems. I have several DEBIAN repositories for distributing my software.
Now, I'd like to know if it is common for Fedora users to use "apt-get" and DEBIAN ...
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apt-get install and upgrade fails on debian
I've got a strange error preventing me from installing anything on my Debian box.
When I run apt-get upgrade (or apt-get install) it produces this error message:
# apt-get upgrade
E: dpkg was ...
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Make Aptitude respect get-selections list
We are several admins working on hundreds of debian servers. Some are using aptitude, some are using apt-get.
To mark packages on hold, some use "echo $package hold | dpkg --set-selections", some use "...
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Is there an Ubuntu server package for PHP 5.3
It's been some time now since the release of PHP 5.3. I can't wait to work with it, but the Ubuntu developers have decided not to include it in the APT repository until 10.04. I don't want to wait ...
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After I change /etc/apt/sources.list...why doesn't it take effect?
Do I have to restart something?
Edit:
sudo apt-get update has no effect.
When I search this on another machine with the SAME sources.list, it works. But, it still doesn't work on this machine.
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Why can't I install Java via "sudo aptitude" in Ubuntu?
$ sudo aptitude install sun-java6-jdk
[sudo] password for fal:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing ...
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How to install JAVA via aptitude?
One of the open source web crawlers (Heritrix) requires Java to run. I have to install this on my CENTOS via the command line (aptitude). How?
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Disable/Remove Apt(-get)
Is there anyway to disable/remove apt-get on a debian based server. I'd prefer to use aptitude, and don't want the other users to be installing packages with apt-get, to avoid package/database issues.
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Change the locale/language of apt-get/aptitude
I have a Debian system on which aptitude produces German messages although I set the default locale to en_US.utf8. Is there a way to change that? I would prefer English messages.
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How should I create a local fork of a debian package?
I wish to maintain a local fork of a debian package. I need to patch a bug which will eventually be fixed in the official package, but not for some time.
How do I create a .deb package, and how do I ...
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How to completely remove a package in Debian?
I tried to use this:
aptitude remove denyhosts
And it seemed successfully but after a reboot after I use:
ps aux | grep "denyhosts"
I see denyhosts is still loaded after startup.
So what am I ...
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How to install a local .deb file
I'm trying to install the last version of maatkit in debian Lenny. I couldn't find a repository with the last version, so I got the .deb file.
The problem is How to I install this file?
man aptitude ...
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Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy): How to automatically apt-get / aptitude upgrade packages for bugs/security?
I have a lab full of workstations running Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron). My predecessors made a hackish bit of cron script to update, upgrade, and clean daily. I like the fact that it requires zero ...
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/etc/cron.daily/apt and /etc/cron.daily/aptitude on ubuntu hardy
I am a sys admin newb, otherwise I would figure this out on my own. I have a slicehost slice and I noticed that there are a couple scripts that get run (the ones I mentioned in my question title) ...
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How can I prevent aptitude from upgrading me past lenny? (Debian Linux)
I can't seem to stop aptitude from upgrading all my packages to testing or beyond.
I'm running Debian lenny, and generally I want to stick with packages from lenny unless I explicitly say otherwise. ...
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What is the best method for Meta-managing Debian Package Profiles?
Over the last 5 years or so, I've been seeing more and more techniques to sync things from browsers, to ide's.
Now I'm keen on setting up something similar for 'meta-managing apt package profiles' ...
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MySQL install on Ubuntu
I have install mysql cluster on one of our linux machines, we did a pilot and decided to use replication instead. Now I want to remove it and install mysql-server.
I have removed all the old files as ...
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How do I find the package that contains a given program on Ubuntu?
Frequently I know the name of the command line program that I need but I don't know the name of the package that provides the program. How do I find the name of the package that contains the program ...
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How can I run Debian stable but install some packages from testing?
Say you're running a server and you don't want to upgrade to Testing (Squeeze) from Stable (Lenny) to just install a required package or two.
What's the best way of installing only certain packages ...
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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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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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Broken upgrade of debian, causing perl issues
So I stuffed an upgrade of debian, both upgrade and dist-upgrade. I am more used to yum but thats no excuse.
Now things are being silly. The majority of things work, however, my bugzilla install ...
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What is the format of specifying 'http' repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list?
After specifying the url of the repository, what do the tags like 'stable','non-free' mean in the entries of /etc/apt/sources.list ? If we know the url of a repository, how do we decide about these ...
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Aptitude / apt-get. Any way to only show non-X dependant apps in a search?
It just occured to me that it would be good to do an 'aptitude search blah' and only have non-graphical applications shown.
I know it's not a biggy but the docs don't seem to mention it and I would ...
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