rosy84@rosy84:~$ apt-get install packagename aptitude
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
I am trying to upgrade an amd64 lenny system to squeeze.I've got a 2.6.32 kernel running, done aptitude update and aptitude install aptitude.When I try "aptitude safe-upgrade", it sits forever resolving dependencies.it seems to search with the resolver counting up more and more open/conflict/ whatever.I stopped it once it got over 100,000)Is it possible to get aptitude to do a safe-upgrade, perhaps using a command line option?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to install Apache2+PHP5+MySQL-cluster on a Ubuntu 10.10 server. I've done many installs like this but with just plain MySQL so this is my first time using mysql-cluster. After getting mysql-cluster working I went back and installed the packages for apache and php5, but somehow I forgot to install the php5-mysql package (not sure how I missed that!) so when I got back to install it it tells me it wants to uninstall mysql-cluster. The "error" I see is:
mysql-cluster-client will be automatically removed because of dependency errors:
* mysql-cluster-client depends on mysql-cluster-client-5.1 [universe]
I put a lot of time in to get mysql-cluster working and don't want to lose it. How do I tell aptitude to just leave it alone and install the php5-mysql package?
I've build a package using dpkg-buildpackage but whenever I run aptitude safe-upgrade it upgrades the package I compiled as well even though it's the same version is there a way to tell it to leave it alone?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI installed a Amsynth from Lucid in Karmic using:
dpkg --force-depends-version -i amsynth_1.2.2-1_i386.deb
The reason for installing the Lucid version is because Karmic version is 3 years old and crashes on my machine. The Lucid Amsynth package depends on newer versions of libatk1 and libjack0 than Karmic has, but I thought I would take a risk, and turns out Amsynth runs fine. However aptitude tries to uninstall Amsynth every time I do an upgrade. I think I've managed to put it on hold but now aptitude aborts. How can I tell aptitude to ignore the broken package and carry on.
i installed a package with dpkg --install and told it to ignore an unmet dependency because the package it depended on could not be installed with apt-get (it was a perl module) and i have manually installed the perl module, it works... however every time i do "apt-get upgrade" or anything like that it wants to remove the package i forced to install because it still thinks there are unmet dependencies, is there a way to either tell it to ignore that the package has unmet dependencies (i mean ignore that always, not something i will have to add every time i use aptitude) or is there a way to convince it that the package it thinks is missing (the unmet dependency) is actually met.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI was wondering if anyone knew how to get long package descriptions which searching for packages with aptitude.my search results have package descriptions that are truncated even if the terminal is expanded to allow longer one-line package descriptions.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI stopped using ubuntu for a while at 9.04 (went to mint and came back) because it was not installing properly. I thought it had aptitude in it then, but I did not have it after installing 10.10 (installed it twice it is not on either). I am just wondering why, even debian includes aptitude.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have Lenny with Gnome installed. Does Synaptic Package Manager use apt-get or aptitude?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI had debian squeeze on my personal computer at home, 3 days ago i've upgraded it to the debian testing. last day i've installed virtualbox which i've gotten from virtualbox.org . today non of package managers work. an example of installing sumthin new with apt:
root@fairyland:/home/timmy# apt-get install clamav
Reading package lists... Done
Segmentation faulty tree... 50%
root@fairyland:/home/timmy#
also synaptic can't be started. i've run apt-get clean and removed /var/lib/apt/list i also tried apt-get update but these don't work sum useful info:
root@fairyland:/home/timmy# tail -n 40 /var/log/dpkg.log
2011-06-26 11:58:07 status half-installed virtualbox-ose 3.2.12-dfsg-1
2011-06-26 11:58:07 status config-files virtualbox-ose 3.2.12-dfsg-1
[code]....
just don't tell me i've to refresh its base, shit i hate to do this, i'd never done that about debian, this is one of the reasons i luv debian.
I changed to testing repository in my Debian 6.0 and I used command "apt-get update". Now, everytime I want to do something with apt-get or aptitude, I receive this:
With apt-get:
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.cz.debian.org_debian_dists_squeeze_main_i18n_Translation-cs
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
or with aptitude:
[ ERR] Reading package lists
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.cz.debian.org_debian_dists_squeeze_main_i18n_Translation-cs
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: Couldn't rebuild package cache
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.cz.debian.org_debian_dists_squeeze_main_i18n_Translation-cs
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.....
Did a fresh install of 10.04 Desktop 86_64 this weekend. One of the first issues I noticed right away was that apt was not function properly. Say for example you install the packages tor and vidalia (assume I'm running everything from root). #apt-get install tor vidalia This command will check and install necessary dependencies, for example 'privoxy'. Now if you decide that you don't want to use privoxy and instead use polipo, you would probably feel inclined to remove privoxy. Well I found that apt-get autoremove, apt-get remove, apt-get purge WILL NOT remove all the files/directories associated with the package. You'll find that after running each of these commands, there will still be directories, scripts, etc. in /etc/init, /etc, and /etc/rc*.d. The only solution I've found to completely removing a package is aptitude purge [package].
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs Aptitude Package Manager good as Synpatic?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI regularly compile something from a source repository that has a certain set of dependencies. Some of these dependencies are dev libraries that are provided via other libraries but are not considered installed packages in themselves, so I cannot test for some dependencies directly.
I am currently parsing an "apt-cache showpkg" output to check for some of these provided dependencies. This is somewhat kludge-y and messy, and I was looking for a more elegant solution.
Is there an APTITUDE option that will directly test for the presence of a library that is part of some other package without having to know the name of the package that the library is part of?
I'm running Debian squeeze and my packages are all up to date. I usually do my updates by typing 'aptitude update' and 'aptitude safe-upgrade' at the command line as root.Sometimes when doing regular updates aptitude, or the package that's being updated, shows a ncurses-style dialog box on the screen, usually to have the user 'OK' a change, or to select which version of a configuration file to keep. Recently I've found these dialog boxes to be slightly messed up... in that the spot at the bottom where I would expect the 'OK' button to be is replaced by nonsensical characters.
There seems to be no problem with the way that the program functions, as I can press the tab key and then the return key, or just the return key alone, and the dialog goes away, seemingly doing it's job. But I would like to know what this program is. It's likely been updated recently, but looking through /var/log/aptitude and /var/log/aptitude.1.gz I cannot figure out which one it is. I'd like to file a bug report, or simply be able to follow the progress of someone else's bug. That's all.
I forced the install of graph-tool package [URL]. Now it is of course tagged as broken, so update manager wont do anything. But I want to accept it, I know it is not really broken. (In fact, graph-tool_xxx.deb asks for libcgal4. squeeze only has libcgal5, so I am betting this is not an issue, as far as graph-tool is concerned.)
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm having problems with apt-get / aptitude / synaptic. When I run apt-get update or upgrade error i get following error message:
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Unable to seek to 18446744071846088703
W: Unable to munmap
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
I've runned apt-get clean cmd, but it didn't help. Pc is pretty new with 8 GB ram etc. Synaptic and aptitude gives this error when you open those.
Code:
karthick@Ubuntu-desktop:~$ sudo aptitude update
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg
Ign http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_IN
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W: GPG error: [URL] lucid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 1E5D5E8D66AE0775
Background: An [old] x86-based server running Debian Squeeze screwed up one of its SCSI hardware raids. Since the problem seemed more related to the raid controller than the disks (the disks still responded and I was able to restore their contents with some trickery), I got myself a QNAP NAS TS-119 as a replacement, installed Debian on it and wanted to install the original set of packages to the new platform.Instead of simply installing all packages on the QNAP that were on the old x86 box, I wanted to maintain the status of automatically installed packages in aptitude.
After looking at /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates and a bit of confusionI looked at the aptitude source code and found the following rather simple explanation:Aptitude merges the package status information from apt and aptitude without storing redundant information in its own status file (which is good). This means the information aboutckages that were automatically installed is tracked in /var/lib/apt/extended_states.This may seem trivial but I couldn't find this information on the Internet I thought I'd submit a dummy question here in case others are havng similar problems.For the sake of completeness: There seem to be situations (like pending actions) where aptitude will store auto-install information in its own state file, /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates.
I'm trying to replace the ubuntu version of openoffice with the official release. During this procedure I ran the command:sudo aptitude remove openoffice.org-*and get the error:
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "openoffice.org-re_1.6.1-18_amd64.deb"I went in to synaptic and removed all the openoffice packages through the GUI (none of which matched that name) as well as the UNO and URE packages. Even after uninstalling all the packages, if I run the aptitude command again get the same error.What is going on here? Does it indicate that my package database has been corrupted? Can I rebuild the database? Should I just ignore this error
I am try to install a package using yum,i got the following error:
I am using centos 5.5
System os: CentOS 5.2 32 bitI installed squid and it is proxy server.Later, i install sarg to monitor web log of client...But when i install from rpm package, it show errorQuote: #rpm -ivh sarg-2.2.3-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm error: sarg-2.2.3-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm:pmReadSignature failed: region trailer: BAD, tag 15872 type 2047 offset 28672 count 4238 error: sarg-2.2.3-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm cannot be installed
View 7 Replies View RelatedIm trying to update the system packages list by doing "aptitude update", but I got a error like this:
W: Failed to fetch http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualb ... 4/Packages: Hash Sum mismatch
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
E: Couldn't rebuild package cache
After searching the Web, I saw that many foruns seems to suggest to erase the reference list of packages using the command " rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/" and then run "aptitude update" again. I did that but the error still pops up.
My source.list:
### Debian Jessie
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
[Code] ....
I have Debian 8.2 stable with kde, when I try install a new package *.deb with APPER, i have this error:
"MIME type 'application/vnd.debian.binary-package' not supported"
And i can't install any package; however if i use terminal with command dpkg -i, I can install packages.
I have a problem with yum installer every time i want to install a new package it gets error:
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server 32 Bit. Now have to install FTP package in my sever i dont have internet connection but i have downloaded the vsftpd_2.0.4-0ubuntu4.1_i386.deb file but while installing i get the following error.
# dpkg -i vsftpd_2.0.4-0ubuntu4.1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 42228 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking vsftpd (from vsftpd_2.0.4-0ubuntu4.1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing vsftpd_2.0.4-0ubuntu4.1_i386.deb (--install):
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I've used yum (and rpm) for some time now, and have finally run into one of those dependency problem. I am trying to install git (among other programs), and I have reach an empass. Nothing I've tried has worked, and I just know there is a simple solution to this that I just don't know. It all started by skipping a dependency in the past (don't remember the package). I figured there would be something to clean that up, so I just continued.
Here is my output:
Code: # yum install git
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit, security
Adding en_US to language list
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Excluding mirror: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de
Excluding mirror: wftp.tu-chemnitz.de
* livna: rpm.livna.org
* rpmfusion-free: mirror.hiwaay.net .....
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Error) for package: perl-Git-1.7.3.3-1.fc14.noarch
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: perl-Git-1.7.3.3-1.fc14.noarch (updates)
Requires: perl(Error)
Error: Package: git-1.7.3.3-1.fc14.i686 (updates)
Requires: perl(Error)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
If I need to, I could go and download the RPM package and install it that way, but I'd like to get YUM back working properly.