General :: Debian APT-Get - Can't Retrieve/install Any Programs
Jan 13, 2011
I am on Debian/Tor/Vidalia environment and I am thoroughly confused as to what the Apt-get engine does. To put it simply, I landed on Debian because I heard that Torrent-downloading stuff via an external application such as U Torrents does no longer guarantee anonymity, even with a Tor proxy server. So I got into the Amnesia CD stuff, after burning the ISO image on CD. I was hoping then to be able to install U Torrents on Debian and carry out the U Torrents downloads from within the Debian shield.
I did download U Torrents but I was unable to install it from the .exe file. Then I heard that programs can be installed in Debian only via a special APT-get engine. My understanding was that by running the" APT-get" engine in the CMD( Terminal) screen, I'd be able to access the softwares I wanted to install, such as U Torrents..
Unfortunately, when I run the " Apt-get" engine with the script " Apt-get Install + software name, " I get a " no packages found" answer. I searched for Bit Torrents, Azureus, U Torrents and a host of other common softwares, to no avail.. None is there. I even got to the APT-get.org site. THere I did find hundreds of repositories and packages , but I haven't the slightest clue as to what they contain. This database is not searchable by software name, so I don't know if and where my software is there.
How to best manage partitioning when install programs not from debian repositories?I just discovered that Debian installs applications not from repositories to /opt and /lib. Both directories or folders reside in root (/) partition.Having made my root (/) partition (which is only around 500MB) -- more than sufficient for holding a couple of linux images but NOT good for holding application.What is the best solution for resolving this? It's annoying and worrying that my system always reminds of a close to full capacity root partition.
I've installed two emulators, one for Nintendo 64 and GameBoy Advance, but I couldn't find the program after it installed. I have also installed NES emulator, but it could be found by searching its name in the Menu. I'm sure I haven't selected to only download the package and not install it.
I had installed ubuntu on my desktop. But I removed it and i've just installed Wifiway on my hard disk. But I used to install programs by the Synaptic on Ubuntu. But now on Wifiway, there isn't an install programs manager like Synaptic. Should I install all programs by source code, with ./configure, make and make install?
Trying to install guarddog or kmyfirewall on slackware, but I get cannot find kde-config, I have found out that it is know called kde4-config. Is there a way to make configure look for kde4-config instead of kde-config?
Or, anyone know of a front end for iptables that will install?
I have a laptop on a wireless network in a apartment building, but the server is in the manager's office, the signal is real good. I also have a desktop with no wireless or wired connection. My question is how do I transfer my apps from my laptop to my desktop in offline mode?
I don't want to install a wireless card for my desktop. Is there a way to install synaptic while offline? Or is there a way to install these apps from a flash drive to my desktop, if so how would I do that?
On my stable/squeeze computer, I have /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub but I cannot find this in my testing/wheezy computer. Why can't I find it? Did the way to retrieve one's public rsa key change? I have openssh-client and openssh-server installed on both computers.
I have a server using ldap. I installed Debian with an Apache webserver with PHP and MySQL support.This server will be used for intranet so I want to know what the REMOTE_USER variables is.Looking at the phpinfo does not give any reference to the REMOTE_USER. REMOTE_ADDR is no problem but does not give me the user using the computer.I've installed libapache2-authenntlm-perl with apt-get and adjusted my /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default file with the following:
where server is my servername and domain is my domainname.The problem after reloading apache2 is that I get the following message: This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the credentials required.When I delete the AuthType, AuthName and require line it loads the webpage but without the REMOTE_USER variable.
It is not ment to ask for a password or username, just to get the username used to log in in the Windowsenviroment that visits the webpage on this Debian.
I'm very new to Linux world however I managed to I installed Debian lenny on my box using a set of CD burned from ISO images. Everything works just fine so far. However, every time I try to update it always asks me to insert the CD and it's somewhat inconvenience. How to make debian just goes straight to the repository site to download the packages that I need
I'm testing on a VM version in debian LAMP with CGI / FastCGI enabled. My goal is to run a PHP script via cron, unfortunately I can not run it .. I don't understand if I'm using a wrong path for the execution of API CGI or I get lost in the syntax ...
here is my cron:
H # m Sun mon dow command 10 * * * * * / etc/php5/cgi / var / www / import / import.php? Mode = P
where to retrieve the execution path and how to troubleshoot the cron ?
I know that there have been a lot of messages (with repo correction info posted) for yum updates after install; but I'm trying to do an internet install of F11 and I'm getting the same message. Obviously I can't change a yum.conf file for this -- but it does give one the option to edit the location.
The default location is: [URL].. There's one other big flaw with the internet install -- it writes HD partition changes to the disk right after you set up the partition scheme; shouldn't it wait until it knows it can connect to the repository?? I had to boot to a Ubuntu live dvd to get on here to post this. I'm definitely not saving time using the internet install option.
I got online last night and found some of the info. on the yum updates issue, with different mirrors or repositores. So what I tried changing for the default repo / metadata location, using the edit option is:
I changed the word metalink to mirrorlist. I changed https to http. I tried using http://mirror.liberty.edu/pub (etc) which is actually an rpm fusion mirror. I likewise tried http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu (etc.) I gave up and went to bed, and this morning I just tried the http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/ (and I also tried the above redhat.com address substituting i386 for basearch and 11 for $releasever) -- no go with any of that. Same error message about cannot retrieve installer metadata.
All of the other messages I've seen on this issue have been about Yum updates; not installs. Hopefully the install DVD will show up in the next couple of hours; but I'd like to make this work if I can ??
how to retrieve lost password to file server storage) running Samba 3.0.14a-Debian? Access to file server from windows PCs via LAN , no direct access.Where the password stored there and how to retrieve?
This is gaurav. I have lost/override the old configuration (config file) while compiling the new kernel resulting in my internet connection failure. I have tried re-booting the pc, the only escape (somewhat weired) i would thought of, still it does not restore the original.
I lost my folder name "....hemanth" while moving the folder "....hemanth" to "Documents" using mv command in the terminal. As there is already a folder named Documents in that destination folder I lost folder. How to retrieve the folder as that folder is very important for me.
i am trying to install the rhel 6 using virtual machine(virtual box ) and iam getting the error as "Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a missing repodata directory. Please ensure that your install tree has been correctly generated.Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:naconda-base-201009221732.i386."i would also like to know what is the reason for this error , i try to goggle it and seems most ppl are facing the same issue and they are directing to some mailing list like rhn-satellite can some somebody can explain what is that mail listing and how we can use the mail listing to dig information
My wifes computer, IBM desktop, running XP, was hit by malware. I managed to save the data and tarred it and copied to a USB memory stick using my Linux box Ubu 9.1). I checked and saw it had been truly saved. Two days later I put stick in USB port and it was not recognized (usually any hot plugable device shows up immediately on desktop). I have tried plugging it into a windows machine and nothing was found. We are both very desperate at this apparent loss but because something similar happened with an Iomega zip disk.
By mistake i deleted imp folder which as certain imp files created, so i want to reterive it ? is it possible by using any specific linux commands only
Just starting out to use linux and of course, everytime I first install an OS, I download 2 things, flash and Chrome. Chrome works fine, but flash has been giving me a lot of problems. I've downloaded the yum file from the Adobe website, and unpacked it using the GUI, yet it still didn't work. So I started googling how to use yum. So I followed some directions and tried doing
Code: yum install flash this is what I get: Code: [root@localhost testpilot]# yum update flash Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Adding en_US to language list [URL] : [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - "" Trying other mirror. Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: adobe-linux-i386. Please verify its path and try again [root@localhost testpilot]#
But thats not the only problem, I think my repo's are messed up or something because look what happens when I type:
Code: yum update Code: [root@localhost testpilot]# yum update flash Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Adding en_US to language list [URL]: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - "" Trying other mirror. Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: adobe-linux-i386. Please verify its path and try again [root@localhost testpilot]#
As you can see, its still trying to goto the adobe website, even when I type in a completely different command from getting flash. So I guess I have 2 questions: 1) How can I "restore defaults" on yum so that I can actually use it 2) How can I install flash?
We have driversquery software in Windows which list all the hardware and storage drivers. I am aware of lsmod and modinfo command but is there any customized tool which on run should display the overall drivers (both storage and hardware) on linux Machine.
In String1 and String2 the substrings are separted by commas. The substrings which are common between String1 and String2 are ABC,DEF this common substrings has to be written to a file say common.txt ( having the text ABC,DEF). And the substrings GHI,JKL in String1 which are not present in String2 has to be written to another file say String1Extra.txt (having the text GHI,JKL). In the same way the substrings MNO,XYZ from String2 which are not present in String1 has to be written to another file say String2Extras.txt(having the text MNO,XYZ) .
I have 2 hard disks and all together I created 6 partion in it.On primary I installed Windows XP and REST 5 partions were having data.From Second hard disk ,I copied all the first partion data to another partions and installed Red Hat 7.It took only 3 GB all togethr for Linux Distribution.Now I need to fetch my Windows data back.I logged from the Windows XP disk and I could see the second disk through disk managemnt .But it was showing "Unhelathy".But I will not be able to retrive the data.So can Anyone give soln for this.
I have recently installed Puppy Linux because my Windows OS crashed and I could not find the license number and did not want to pay $180 for a new one.So far This OS looks good but quite different to Windows so I am having difficulty finding how to retrieve my photos and documents from the computer. I have been able to find the relevant files but I can't see how to copy or print them. I would like to put them onto CD and transfer them to my laptop which is running Windows 7.
