Questions tagged [apt]
For questions about the use, design, function etc. of APT (Advanced Packaging Tool), the standard software package management system for Debian and its derivatives.
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Using Debian's `equivs` to create a "substitute" package
I learned of equivs recently from this Q&A. However, the problem I was trying to solve was different than the "missing package" issue described there. What I wanted to do was use equivs ...
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PHP-GD broken with wrong dependancies, how to restore
I am using Wine in Linux Mint 21 which is Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy). Also PHP from ondrej. Did not figure out at first that there is a conflict. Default PHP is 8.1, using FPM. I needed PHP8.3, could ...
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Installation of NVidia CUDA Toolkit on Ubuntu Studio 24.04.3 LTS caused package dependency problems
I have recently installed Ubuntu Studio (22.04.03 LTS) on a new system with a Ryzen 7 9700X and NVidia RTX 5060Ti; during the installation it installed the NVidia drivers automatically (open kernel ...
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Inadvertently installed texlive-base and texlive-binaries while a TeX Live installation is already present on my system
I am a long time LaTeX user. Currently, my Debian 13 system runs a TeX Live distribution which I installed by following the steps described in the official documentation. So, all my LaTeX binaries ...
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apt-get autoremove during Debian 13 upgrade removed packages I need - how to get them back?
To upgrade from Debian 12 with KDE to Debian 13, I did run sudo apt-get full-upgrade -o dir::cache::archives=dir and sudo apt-get --fix-broken install -o dir::cache::archives=dir but despite of ...
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Simplest way to use apt list output as argument to apt
I sometimes find myself wanting to use the output of apt list as a list of arguments to apt, i.e. a space separated list of package names. Any time I want this I have to search for how to do it and ...
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How to fix the update and upgrade in ParrotOS
How do I fix this error? GPG error: https://deb.parrot.sh/parrot parrot InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 7A8286AF0E81EE4A E: ...
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How to install the dependencies of a source debian package in the local system? [duplicate]
If I want to recompile a package available somewhere in the apt repositories, an apt-get build-dep <packagename> will do what I want. However, very often, not that is case. Very often, the ...
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"set value" for [linuxmint] 22.2 as "APT::Default-Release" in [apt-config] or "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/*"
Like it says in the title, I've tried "Zara", "zara" and "22.2", all to no avail. Think I'll try "main" or "mint" next. Is it likely that the value ...
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Debian 13: Unable to locate package software-properties-common
I am having trouble installing the software-properties-common package in linux. I am using the following configuration: System Details: Linux machine 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian ...
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Python>3.9 install on Ubuntu 20.04 focal
deadsnakes recently removed support for Ubuntu 20.04: https://github.com/deadsnakes/py3.11/commit/54c42edda82a91620e5c26b5e27eeda1527e2cff So, currently, trying to install any version of python newer ...
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apt-get upgrade fails: a 20220329.git681281e4-0ubuntu3.40 package is missing from our jammy-updates pool. How can we catch it?
I've received an Ubuntu 22.04.1 computer in an environment where packages come from an internal Artifactory repository only. I did an apt-get update / apt-get upgrade on it, with an /etc/apt/source....
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Restore official Debian package after having tested an altered, self compiled version
I've built a Debian package from source with dpkg-buildpackage according to helpful instructions found here to fix an issue that bugged me. I used dch -n to increase the version by a non-maintainer ...
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`apt --install-recommends` ignores recommended package
Linux Mint 21 based system. I've just noticed and I'm very puzzled: apt-get --install-recommends --yes wine-installer Recommended packages: ...,wine32 And no wine32 in NEW packages to be installed....
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apt_auth.conf file with machine login password fails on an not findable extra junk character
At work, on an Ubuntu 22.04.1 I'm willing to use apt_auth.conf abilty of apt to ease me getting packages from an artifactory. I've wrote my artifactory.conf file into /etc/apt/apt.conf.d that way: ...