Is this method the correct one if I want to forbid a foo package from being installed, even if this foo package is a dependency of another package? For example, geoclue is a dependency of Steam. However, I still want to install Steam, but not geoclue.
The method:
nano /etc/apt/preferences
Package: geoclue
Pin: origin ""
Pin-Priority: -1
Debian 504 64-bit
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I need a particular include file. I know the file name. I don't know which package would install it. apt-cache seems to only search names and descriptions. dpkg -S seems to only search through installed packages. I need to find a package that's not yet installed. I probably just missed the option in the man page... or I don't know which program to man.
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how to find the full name of "ess" installed? How to find whether there is the latest version available on backports?
I know I've got inotify-tools installed; I've got a daemon that runs and it's using inotifywait to move some files around.
This thing is:
12:20:16 /home/barrie $ >> dpkg --get-selections | grep inotify*
12:20:29 /home/barrie $ >> aptitude show inotify-tools
Package: inotify-tools
New: yes
State: not installed
Version: 3.12-1
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Maintainer: Peter Makholm <peter@makholm.net>
Uncompressed Size: 115k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.6-1), libinotifytools0
Description: command-line programs providing a simple interface to inotify
inotify-tools is a set of command-line programs for Linux providing a simple interface to inotify. These programs can be used to monitor and act upon filesystem events. inotify-tools consists of two utilities:
inotifywait simply blocks for inotify events, making it appropriate for use in shell scripts.
inotifywatch collects filesystem usage statistics and outputs counts of each inotify event.
12:20:40 /home/barrie $ >>
It's not showing up as installed! If not how to get the list of installed packages 'reloaded'. I've googled for hours and reloading the installed packages doesn't look promising!
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If not, where is the dependency information for installed packages stored?
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: The package wine needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
# apt-get remove 0.9.47~winehq0~debian~4.0-1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: The package wine needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
What does it mean by "an archive", and where can I find one?
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package apache2 is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@vps2:~#
but:root@vps2:~# ls -la /usr/sbin/apache*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Jul 5 01:46 /usr/sbin/apache2 -> ../lib/apache2/mpm-prefork/apache2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5326 Mar 22 23:56 /usr/sbin/apache2ctl
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 5 01:46 /usr/sbin/apachectl -> apache2ctl
root@vps2:~# ls -la /etc/ap
apache2/ apm/apt/
root@vps2:~# ls -la /etc/apache2/
total 76
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 May 27 17:32 .
drwxr-xr-x 88 root root 4096 Jul 5 20:46 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7908 May 27 17:32 apache2.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 27 17:32 conf.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1169 May 27 17:32 envvars
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 27 17:32 httpd.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31063 May 27 17:32 magic
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 27 17:32 mods-available
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 27 17:32 mods-enabled
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 750 May 27 17:32 ports.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 27 17:32 sites-available
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 27 17:32 sites-enabled
root@vps2:~#
Apache2 is there and I can start it normally with /etc/init.d/apache2 start but I want it removed, how do I do that?
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When i try installing anything i get errors, for example when i try to install somthing from ubuntu software center i get this.
Code: installArchives() failed: Preconfiguring packages ... Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package ttf-symbol-replacement. (Reading database ... dpkg: warning: files list file for package `libsdl-image1.2' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
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i have to use lh command. I have installed all updates for ubuntu, live-build (the package for lh) and its updates. So my system is fully updated.When i hit "lh" command i get the following message: The program 'lh' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
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When i do type: "sudo apt-get install live-build" i get:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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I am trying to put up my own Quake2 server to play with my friends. During this installation process I have encountered rather confusing issue. First I downloaded the Q2 server binaries in RPM package and tried installing it:
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when I try to install a package, I've the message The following packages have unmet dependencies:package-xy: Depends:lib-something (>= version_number) which is a virtual package.
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When I install some packages Yum seems to behave correctly until the the very end when it gives the error: xxx-package was supposed to be installed but is not! I am lookng for any advice which might solve the issue. Below is an example of the yum output.
libgcc-
4.4.2-7.fc12.x86_64.rpm | 75 kB 00:00
Running rpm_check_debug
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I am running openSUSE 11.4 KDE 4.6.5 on my desktop AMD64. Just added R47 repo in order to upgrade KDE 4.6.5 to 4.7. However, after running zypper up I saw lots of packages not being updated.code...
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OK, so I'll just go ahead and install the package, right?
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I have a dedicated server. Centos 5.4 i386
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I just installed a package with yum but I can't find any files associated with it. My question: is there a way to make yum tell you which files were installed from a package?
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