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Unable to update kernel on Ubuntu 22.04 due to cpio write error, but /boot is not full
NEW INFO 6/13/24 16:18 MT: after main post
Having problems with apt upgrade on my main workstation, been troubleshooting for months and I can't figure this out. Kernel will not update. Need the ...
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apt-cache policy <package name> shows /var/lib/dpkg/status instead of the repository name
I am using Ubuntu 22.04. I know I can get the information about where a package comes from via apt-cache policy <package name> (related question). I want to find out how I installed a specific ...
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How do I uninstall brave web browser?
I need to remove brave from my system because it is causing errors. I am on a raspberry Pi 4 and on version 23.10. I have tried other similar solutions but they did not work. I also tried checking the ...
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apt full-upgrade gets stuck on a broken pipe
Had to fix dpkg due to an upgrade interruption, now I am just stuck with a different error every time I try to run an upgrade, "Paste process signal was killed by a broken pipe.
Error came when ...
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How to solve dpkg error based on geany-plugin-addons
Error that I got from the upgrading step:
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
loading files list file for package 'geany-plugin-addons': cannot read /var/lib/dpkg/info/geany-plugin-addons.list ...
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What is the correct approach to upgrade Docker when a gpg file is involved?
After to did do an upgrade through VirtualBox for Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 to 22.04 - focal to jammy - at the /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory exists the mysql.list file.
According with a research was ...
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DKMS Problem - dpkg error processing package linux-headers-generic
$ sudo apt full-upgrade
[sudo] password for pepp:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following NEW ...
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Can't update or reinstall Zoom in 22.04
After a summer away, Zoom would not run without an update. After following the instructions and downloading the .deb package, all attempts to install ended with an error:
dpkg: error processing ...
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Keyboard not working after update
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04.3 and after performing a software update to kernel version 6.2.0-32 as well as others (read below), I was prompted to reboot and after that the keyboard of my laptop (a Fujitsu ...
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An error occured, please run package manager from right-click menu [duplicate]
I Just installed Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS today and after a few minutes, I had a red circle with a white minus inside of it at the top bar, I clicked it and this error message popped up:
An error occurred, ...
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APT rendered unusable after Wine update
New Linux user running Kubuntu (22.04.02 LTS), and I have no idea how to progress on this issue. Wine recently released an update to their stable branch, and upon trying to update Wine using Discover, ...
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How to disable this apt warning: OpenSSL vulnerability has recently been fixed with USN-6188-1 & 6119-1? [duplicate]
Recently when doing and apt upgrade apt display this message:
$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... ...
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Update-grub hangs
Ubuntu updating hangs at update-grub after few hours, then I cancelled the updating windows. My current kernel is Linux family 5.15.0-71-generic #78~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP
Then I run sudo dpkg --configure ...
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apt issue - not able to run any apt command
Whenever I execute apt update or any other apt command, the process appears to be running in the background, but no output is displayed in the terminal. After some time, the system runs out of ...
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where is the actual index file apt uses to update the package list?
I was trying to install yelp-tools.
I ran sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
then sudo apt-get install yelp-tools
it fails with this:
E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/...
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Package distributor has shipped an updated version - how to say yes after no [duplicate]
After sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade I stepped into the:
"Package distributor has shipped an updated version."
Initially, I said no thinking this was the safest option.
Unfortunately, ...
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Package System is Borken
I'm currently running Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS with livepatch and Pro on and my package manager is broken.
I've had an issue with my package system for a few weeks now. I think it may have started when I ...
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How to Manually Installing and Checking the Version of Libksba8 in a Docker Ubuntu Image
I pull the UBUNTU docker image, run the downloaded ubuntu image and I run the following command
dpkg -s libksba8 to check the current version of libksba8 inside the docker ubuntu system.
When I run ...
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I can't install python3.10-minimal on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS in container
I have a container with ubuntu 22.04 lts and when I need to install a package or program that requires pyhton3.x-minimal it throws a permissions denied error, I am also root. It is something strange ...
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Error while upgrading to linux-firmware/focal-updates,focal-updates 1.187.36
I am facing this problem while updating firmware from 1.187.35 to 1.187.36. While upgrading this error message shows:
Preparing to unpack .../linux-firmware_1.187.36_all.deb ...
Unpacking linux-...
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I am having issues upgrading 17 packeges in Kubuntu 22.04 [duplicate]
This happens when I upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically ...
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Gnome's Software ignores apt's "kept-back" package status
Problem description
The application Software (that is, Gnome Software 41.5) shows available updates, while sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade finds no updates, apart from some kept-back ...
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Upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 - improper use of do-release-upgrade
I started an upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 but did not follow the proper procedure. The sequence of commands I executed are:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade ...
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Cannot use dpkg or update anything due to kernel
since today I have noticed that I cannot install gparted or even check for updates because of unknown error. All I understand is that kernel does not allow to be removed and stops any process that I ...
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Force apt or apt-get to return error code on warning [duplicate]
apt-get and apt are exiting with 0 instead of an error code when they cant resolve a repository. I'd like to get a non-zero in this case (and for warnings generally).
e.g.
# apt-get update
Err:1 https:...
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dpkg attempting to uninstall an unexisting package
dpkg pre-removal exit status 1 for linux-modules-nvidia-390-5.8.0-59-generic
I tried sudo apt update, sudo apt upgrade, and here's the problem.
$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
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How to solve this issue when installing melt 7 [duplicate]
How to solve this issue when installing melt 7
Unpacking libmlt7-data (7.10.0-1~ubuntu22.10.1) over (7.8.0-1~ubuntu22.04.1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libmlt7-data_7.10....
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Can't update local installed app from software center using deb file
I ran into an annoying problem trying to update an app with a downloaded deb file. First, the software center opened and said the file wasn't supported. I found through searching, the file wasn't in a ...
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How to uninstall/remove all reference to nVidia/cuda on Server 22.04.1 LTS
Server being used for file sharing and Plex. Now mopping up after failed/partially successful attempts to install nVidia/CUDA by unknown means. No nVidia hardware yet installed. Results of login, apt ...
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deadsnakes Python3.9-dev install fails on Ubuntu 18.04 [duplicate]
I'm attempting to install the python3.9-dev package from the deadsnakes ppa on an Ubuntu 18 system in order to build a python package from source, but there appears to be a conflict between two of the ...
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When I ran an update (apt update) it gave me a problem
When I ran an update (apt update) it gave me a
E: Problem executing scripts APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success 'if /usr/bin/test -w /var/lib/command-not-found/ -a -e /usr/lib/cnf-update-db; then /usr/...
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How do I fix this error? E: Malformed entry 1 in list file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/archive_uri-https_deb_opera_com_opera-stable_stable-jammy.list [duplicate]
I've tried a bunch of things I've come across here, tried adding to repository, tried rebuilding source list, tried just removing but nothing works I just keep getting the same code over and over.
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How can I fix these broken dependencies? No free space error -
Los siguientes paquetes tienen dependencias incumplidas:
linux-headers-generic : Depende: linux-headers-5.15.0-37-generic pero no está instalado
linux-headers-generic-hwe-22.04 : Depende: linux-...
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Low disk space on /boot preventing update in Ubuntu 22.04 and warnings of missing firmware which aren't missing?
When I run software updater in Ubunutu 22.04 it gives a low disk space in /boot error and fails to update. When I run sudo apt upgrade (after sudo apt update), I get warnings of possible missing ...
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dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-headers when trying to update linux kernel
I downloaded all the necessary files to update the linux kernel version which is currently 5.13.0-39-generic to version 5.16.12-051612-generic :
linux-headers-5.16.12-051612-generic_5.16.12-051612....
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apt freezes mid-install/uninstall every time, Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
I'm out of ideas how to fix this, it has persisted across reboots, apt updates, apt upgrades, even a sudo dpkg --configure -a
The nice thing is I have two machines both behaving this way, both are ...
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Problem with software updating - package conflicts
I have problems updating my Ubuntu 20.04. When I click on "update software". I got this message:
I followed the answer here: dpkg error: "trying to overwrite file, which is also in...&...
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Cannot remove old linux-image after 22.04 upgrade
I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 21.10 to 22.04 and the process went smoothly without reporting any errors.
Whenever I try to run a system update dpkg raises the following error relating to the old ...
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Accidentally terminating installing restricted extras and vlc during installation
I tried to install restricted extras and vlc by entering the following code:
sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras && sudo apt install vlc
I then accidentally terminated the process and ...
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linux-image is not deleting automatically
The problem stems from running out of disk space on /boot after doing too many updates. I'm doing sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt dist-upgrade and every time the linux-...
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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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sudo apt-get upgrade failed due to "Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-5.13.0-27-generic"
this is the console result
leno@leno-Lenovo-V3000:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating ...
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I/O error and read only file issue
I downloaded Ubuntu because I need to run linux software (MUMmer, a bioinformatics tool) on my PC. Im trying to follow this websites instructions: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/setup/...
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How to meet unmet dependencies on apt-get upgrade? [closed]
I'm getting the following error on sudo apt-get upgrade:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct ...
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Ubuntu FIPS broke package manager
I enable ubuntu FIPS, and suddenly I am not able to install anything. Here is an error output sample. This happens with any package I try to install.
laptop@my-laptop:~$ sudo apt install -f gcc
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Disable prompt to overwrite config files during upgrade
I'm trying to configure an Ubuntu (20.04) desktop instance so that the Ubuntu Software Updater GUI does not prompt whether to update a config file if it has local changes (e.g. sshd_config)
For some ...
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dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error [duplicate]
I am running Ubuntu 20.04.3
I am getting this error when running sudo apt full-upgrade
The following packages will be upgraded:
brave-browser command-not-found ghostscript ghostscript-x google-...
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Error when running apt-get upgrade after update
Can't update nor install anything for a while now, since several packages allegedly have unmet dependencies.
sudo apt-get upgrade:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading ...
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Ubuntu 21.10, mariadb update failure
Here is the error message:
Setting up mariadb-common (1:10.5.13-0ubuntu0.21.10.1) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative path /etc/mysql/mariadb.cnf doesn't exist
dpkg: error processing package ...
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APT Update not responding as expected [duplicate]
I have tried to resolve the following issue in Ubuntu, but so far have only been able to resolve the issue by rebooting my Linux box.
I was running the sudo apt update command and soon realized that I ...
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