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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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:
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How to see non system Debian packages?
How to see with apt or dpkg all packages which don't belong to official Debian repository?
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Debian: there is a way to "re-check" all gpg sign of packages installed?
Suppose for one reason I cannot update Debian cause of gpg error, and I have no time to solve it and I use this (really dangerous) command
apt-get --allow-unauthenticated --allow-insecure-repositories ...
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Trying to install blueman but asks to remove pipewire
Recently bluetooth has disappeared from my machine. Its running, but its disappeared from my taskbar and the start menu. As far as I can tell its running anyway.
I am running Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS with ...
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