Questions tagged [apt]
APT is short for Advanced Packaging Tool, the package manager for Debian-based distributions. It is also the most used tool for installing packages in Ubuntu. Questions about using any of the apt commands should use this tag.
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How to install a newer/different libc6 version?
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 focal fossa.
I'm trying to install a package that depends on libc6=<2.33 or above. However, focal repositories only have version 2.31, which is causing dependency troubles:
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libMagickWand-6.Q16.so.2: cannot open shared object file
After upgrading Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04, I can't run php commands.
php -v shows me this:
php: error while loading shared libraries: libMagickWand-6.Q16.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such ...
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Unable to find OpenCV during linking (compile from source)
I am trying to compile qgifer-0.2.1-source from its source in Ubuntu. I have all the dependencies installed. I am compiling as per below instruction from README of the source.
cd qgifer_source_dir
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Boost 1.58 installed, but boost_thread and boost_locale missing
Trying to build a project that requires boost. I get the following error:
Unable to find the requested Boost libraries.
Boost version: 1.58.0
Boost include path: /usr/include
Could not find ...
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How do I install the debug symbols for gcov?
Which package has the debug symbols for gcov from the gcc package? I've tried installing gcc-5-dbgsym, but it didn't have the symbols.
Not a duplicate of [1]. As I mentioned I've already enabled the ...
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What's the easiest way to install OpenSSH 7.4 on Ubuntu 16.04?
On Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) box, what is the easiest way to install OpenSSH (openssh-client) that is higher than 7.2?
I am aware that I could compile from source, but I was wondering if there's a way to ...
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Unable to install python-apt
This happens when I use pip:
user1@ubuntu-ipc:~$ pip install python-apt
Collecting python-apt
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e5/ff/...
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Getting the most recent releases of gcc / g++ (11.0 or 10.2) on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
I'd like to get the latest releases of g++ (and clang) via package manager (apt).
Currently I need to compile gcc/g++ on my own which needs really a lot of time.
Are there any repositories with "...
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Cannot upgrade EC2/Ubuntu to 18.04.4 with do-release-upgrade. Maybe it's python?
I'm trying to upgrade my Amazon EC2 instance from Ubuntu 16.04.6 to 18.04.4.
I've already performed the cleanups like apt clean, apt autoremove etc...
Then I start do-release-upgrade, I confirm to ...
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"Unknown error executing apt-key"
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64-bit: when I try to update I get the error: "Unknown error executing apt-key" several times, see the output below (I am not allowed to include the full screen dump because it ...
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How to run update-apt-xapian-index only one time at week?
I cannot understand why update-apt-xapian-index is starting every day I boot Kubuntu 18.04.1 LTS. I have disabled updates in Muon but without any change. After that I searched for it in /etc/cron.* ...
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How to update ruby version to 2.5.1?
When I tried opening metasploit by
msfconsole
It showed an error
rbenv: version `2.5.1' is not installed (set by /opt/metasploit-framework/.ruby-version)
I tried
rbenv install rbx-2.5.1
its ...
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Masking i386 entries in `aptitude`?
I have a 64 bits system, and usually use aptitude to select and install packages. For packages that comes both in a 64 bits and 32 bits version, two versions of the package are listed:
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Segmentation fault while running apt-get update
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 and when I try to run
apt-get update
It gives an error
Reading package lists... Error!
Segmentation fault
What could be the root cause of this? And how can I fix it?
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Blank updates in Software Updater in 18.04
I have 18.04 installed, but just recently I noticed my updates are shown as blank and pre-downloaded even though I have configured updates as notifications only. I find this very odd and a little ...
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Slow ubuntu mirrors in AWS
We are currently having some very serious issues with VM's started in eu-west-1 region in AWS.
The machines are started from cannonical AMI (ami-77057e00).
The repositories configured are:
http://...
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Why does apt-get install Skype easily while aptitude complains about MAJOR dependency errors?
I was trying to install Skype on Ubuntu 13.04, from the Canonical repositories. With apt-get it worked easily, while aptitude had a huge problem with dependencies and proposed a complicated solution. ...
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How to fix debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog error w/Packer?
I am using the Packer vsphere-iso builder to build an Ubuntu-18.04 VM on vSphere with a shell provisioner, and when I run either of the following two commands:
sudo apt-get install software-properties-...
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Xenial servers offline after unattended upgrades
We logged on this morning to find 12 of our servers offline.
All with different hosting companies. All running Xenial.
They all came back online after rebooting and it seems to have been caused by ...
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Is it possible to change default diff tool for apt (or maybe it is for shell)?
I'm not sure is it apt or shell setting or is it a setting at all but whenever there is a conflict on a configuration file while doing apt upgrade I'm presented with these options:
Y or I : install ...
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Ensure add-apt-repository keeps trusted=yes from deb input string
I am attempting to add a private repository to my sources.list using the add-apt-repository command, but I do not have access to the public key that corresponds to that package repository.
If I try ...
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When does /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache get updated and can I protect it?
I find it really irritating that some applications (e.g. pdfshuffler and calibre) end up a higher priority in /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache than my desired application for PDFs (okular).
I ...
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How do I use pip with Python 3.6 on Ubuntu 14.04?
I am trying to install Python 3.6 as per this answer, but I seem to be having troubles. My system is the following (it's on c9.io):
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: ...
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I cannot update ubuntu 16.04
I tried to update the OS, but I got the following messages:
$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 ttp://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 ttp://archive.canonical.com/...
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Difference between apt search and apt-cache search
I'm not getting the same results when using apt search and apt-cache search: using apt, I'm getting a lot less results than using apt-cache. For example, searching for screenshot gets me 4 results ...
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How can I use a local package mirror at system installation time?
I would like to use a local mirror of the Ubuntu repositories when I'm completing an Ubuntu Server installation. I have a mirror already created to serve the repository over the LAN using http, this ...
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What does dpkg --auto-deconfigure actually do?
I'm trying to replace Nginx with a version that has the PageSpeed module compiled in, and I've made my own .deb file for this. The first step is to uninstall the old nginx. However, when I try apt-get ...
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Installed Cuda toolkit 7.5, but libcudart.so.5.5 remains
After installing Cuda Toolkit 7.5 on Ubuntu 14.04 (via apt-get of .deb file, followed by update of nvidia driver to 352.63), nvcc --version, NVidia-smi, and cuda samples work as expected.
7.5 is ...
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How to disable apt key checking for private repositories under Ubuntu 14.04?
Under Ubuntu 14.04 I cannot get this to work.
Our PCI auditor told us we can not have direct outbound access to the Ubuntu repo's, so I mirror them with reprepro. Likewise, we do not have outbound ...
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Apt doesn't want to install an older version of package
I'm building a debian package from the source code. The package has, among the others, the following dependency (part of debian/control):
libswarm-dev (>= 0.6.1.0), libswarm-dev (<< 0.7),
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AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute python
I am struggling with compiling python 2.7.9 from source and have been advised to ask this question here.
While installing python 2.7.9 following the steps described here the following errors ...
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Firefox stuck in 6.0 and not updating. Apt-get says that its latest version
I'm having trouble updating Firefox, it does not update from the terminal and doesn't show up in the update manager. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04.
If I run apt-get install firefox it claims that the ...
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Installing nvidia drivers on 24.04 is an impossible task
My expectation is that installing drivers is a ten minute task, max.
My actual result is that it's taken two, three days of work to get no results.
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-535-open followed by ...
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grub held back from update for weeks
the two packages "grub-efi-amd64-bin" and "grub-efi-amd64-signed" have been held back from being updated(upgraded) by apt for more than a week now maybe two weeks.
sometimes when ...
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"Can't mark 'ubuntu-desktop' for upgrade" while trying to upgrade to LTS 22.04
When I do sudo do-release-upgrade to update to the next LTS,
I get
Could not calculate the upgrade
An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.
The cause seems to be this (from /...
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How to remove apt browsers and use Flatpak browser
Similar to this question Why does removing Firefox install another browser? when I try to remove Firefox installed via apt, apt tries to install Chromium as an alternative as I have dependencies that ...
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update-initramfs causes segmentation fault
I was trying to install lsscsi on my Raspberry Pi 4, running Ubuntu 20.04. I don't have a detailed log of what happened, but it got to the end where it says "processing triggers", then it ...
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"Building dependency tree" on apt-get takes too long
Ever since I installed Ubuntu "Building dependency tree" has always taken more than 10 minutes to finish, this happens for installing/removing/upgrading/updating. It does eventually finish ...
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failed update of linux-firmware and linux-image-5.4.0-105-generic
Motivated by a recent CVE security request to update the kernel I have tried to update my kernel with sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install linux-generic this has failed. So I have tried ...
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ca-certificates-java error on Ubuntu 20.04
I can't install anything, it gives this error on every installation
Setting up ca-certificates-java (20190405ubuntu1) ...
head: cannot open '/etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts' for reading: No such file or ...
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How to install a specific version of a metapackage and its dependencies?
I'll use the NVIDIA 460 driver as an example. Here's what happens when I want to try to install version 460.67 instead of 460.80 (which is buggy, FYI).
$ apt-get install -s nvidia-driver-460=460.67-...
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Error running apt update E: Unable to determine file size for fd 7 - fstat
I have set up Ubuntu 21.04 Base image in Termux. When I run apt update, I get the following error. As I was not able to run apt update, I cannot install any packages.
root@localhost:~# apt update
Get:...
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Unable to sudo apt-get update for Ubuntu (Windows subsystem for Linux)
Err:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Temporary failure resolving 'archive.ubuntu.com'
Err:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease
Temporary failure resolving ...
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apt-get upgrade stuck at "setting up base-files (11ubuntu5.2)" - Ubuntu 20.04
I am trying to execute apt-get update && apt-get upgrade on an Ubuntu 20.04 system:
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Release: 20....
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Error retrieving gpg key timed out
Using ubuntu 20.04 and I was trying to add this repository ppa:ondrej/php and then I got this message when running this command;
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
Co-installable PHP versions: ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 - Can't Install Older PHP Versions
I decided to install Ubuntu 20.04 and give it a go. I am loving it so far, but I have run into an issue that may prevent me from using it.
The default repositories have PHP 7.4, which is awesome, ...
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`apt-get install` without running `update-alternatives` (or specifying own priority)
Is there a way to install a package using apt-get install without update-alternatives being invoked? Or at least being able to specify your own custom priority for the new links added by update-...
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Is sagemath removed from Ubuntu 19.10?
I am trying to install sagemath by running :
sudo apt install sagemath
but it says:
Package sagemath is not available, but is referred to by another
package. This may mean that the package is ...
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Wine Error: 0030:err:winsock:WSAIoctl -> SIO_ADDRESS_LIST_CHANGE
I'm trying to install Flash CS 6 Pro (which is now called Adobe Animate) for Windows with Wine 4.0.2 on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS. I installed the latest version of Wine, updated all repositories and ...
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Is there any way to change Snap download mirror?
I'm using ubuntu 19.04 with Ubuntu Store installed.
I usually download and install snaps using snap command but I'm facing very low download speed issue with that. While packages from ubuntu ...
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