if there is a way to blacklist certain packages when updates come around. The reason for this is that I have two repositories that contain Smplayer and Mplayer. But one repository versions of this aren't VDPAU active (but the build is newer).
View 1 Replieswhat should not be mentioned:
*disabling "Automatically fix broken packages before installing or removing" in aptitude -- because it does not work
*editing /var/lib/dkpg/status -- not related to apt-get really
* -m or -f options of apt-get -- because they do not help me in any way
* downloading the package manually and using dpkg --force-depends-version -i <package> -- again, not apt-get
I need the --just shut the fuck up and dl&install the darn package option immediately.
I am just too tired and am missing something in the man pages for aptitude and not getting my search terms right but I can't seem to find a way to make aptitude ignore a couple of supposed broken packages (they work just fine by the way). The only way I can find to remidy the situation is to remove those couple of packages or upgrade several things to their Squeeze counter parts. I really don't want to try and do the upgrade as at home I am stuck on a 56k connection. Removing the broken packages I guess won't be too bad if I can find the debs again after I install a couple of things I want to add to my system. I would however just like to make aptitude ignore the state of my system and try to install what I want anyway.
View 14 Replies View Relatedwhen I have a broken packages on the system and want to apt-get install something (completely unrelated to the broken package) apt-get starts giving me crap about the broken stuff and won't download and install the packages I'm asking for. How can I make it ignore the completely unrelated stuff about missing deps on my system and download what I want?
View 3 Replies View RelatedRunning F12 and the option to ignore updates is grayed out
View 9 Replies View RelatedShort version: Why does apt-get update since recently ask me for my installation DVD?
Long version: In my sources.lst there is still an entry for the installation DVD.
I like that because if a package on DVD is still the newest version then there is no need to download it again. (If I comment out the DVD entry apt-get update will ignore the DVD but at the same time no package will ever be installed from it again, right?)
Since some time ago this was no problem as apt-get update didn't have a problem with the entry - or if it had (I don't really remember), there was just an error message and the process would continue with the other sources. But then this changed and now I'm asked to insert the disk (luckily I have only one DVD) every time and the routine waits until I have done so.
Is there a way to change that back?
I've read some apt documentation and the apt-* manual pages including apt.conf and some examples for that but could not find something useful though there might be something I missed because I didn't understand everything I saw.
Clearly, it makes sense that DVDs and the like can be included in apt-get update because some people update offline with these media. But (the standard) DVDs are read-only and the individual disks are identified by apt (see /var/lib/apt/cdroms.list). So the system should not expect an already known DVD to change but recognize if a new one is being used.
I generally have at least 4-5 distro's installed at one time - I always install grub to the boot partition of other distros -that was I control grub from the individual distros - I use ubuntu's grub as the default boot loader.
Rather than the method that ubuntu uses with the update-grub.I normally edit the grub.cnf file to add other distros but when update-grub launches it also adds links in grub.How can I prevent the upadte-grub script automatically adding lines for other distros i.e - I just want it to add ubuntu entries and ignore other partitions.
When I installed 10.10 I uninstalled gwibber, empathy and ubuntuone. Twice now in Update Manager I've subsequently found gwibber on the list of possible updates. Is there a way to tell Update Manager not to include in future some programs, which I've uninstalled and don't want?
View 4 Replies View RelatedUpon installing Debian, it asked me if it can use a mirror to get updated packages. I said no, yet it ignored my command and fetched packages. Why did Debian disobey me?
View 12 Replies View RelatedMy kupdate-applet tells me it has a recommended update: KDE 4.3.5 from the official opensuse update repo. Problem is I already have a more recent version of KDE 4.3.5 installed from the official opensuse KDE repo. In yast I pressed the "switch system packages" button for the KDE repo. How can I make the update applet ignore this "recommended" update? Note that the updateApplet itself is installed from the opensuse update repo. If I don't do this, then the older update applet from the KDE repo always has a recommended update for... Kupdate-applet.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI just installed ubuntu 10.10, and im triying to update, when i uncheck the packages that i dont want and click on the "install updates" button in the update manager, the update manager check it again and download the packages that i dont want
View 1 Replies View RelatedI was running 10.04 LTS and had decided to stick to the LTS versions as I'm now running my machine as a server and don't want to be updating regularly.Every time I logged in via SSH I got a message telling me there where packages to update including a security update. So I did a search to find out how to perform an update on Ubuntu server from the command line.What I found was to do this:sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get dist-upgradeAfter doing that I rebooted but now my machine gives me this message:
init: ureadahead-other main process (794) terminated with status 4Your disk drives are being checked for errors, this may take some timePress C to cancel all checks currently inprogressI'm not pressing C yet and leaving it alone to finish, but I noticed when the machine booted that one of the options for booting talked about Ubuntu 10.10, so I'm worried that I've updated from 10.04 LTS to 10.10 by accident?
I am trying to do the update of ubuntu 9.10 UNR (it is your netbook equal to every other), but I get a error, it says it cant get some packages from the servers.
I tried to do a bug report but I dont know how.
When I allow Update Manager to download and install security and other updates it saves the deb package files in /var/cache/apt/archives. I don't really need or want to keep these files. I seem to recall that in versions years ago the default was to delete them after installation. But the issue at the moment is how to get 10.04 and later to automatically delete the files after installation. Space is not a concern on my desktop PC nor my server. It is an issue with various virtual machine installations as they are limited in disk space and the more they take up the more there is to backup.
I have tried telling Synaptic to delete the files after installation but this does not change the performance of Update Manager.
I read something like said:
Update Packages not authenticated so imagine.
I wonder why (and how) a 'contaminated' update/package can get access to the Ubuntu server.
what I have on my desktop waiting for my approval to download?
The information of those updates is as follows:
1- Firefox
Changes for the versions:
3.6.8+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
3.6.9+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
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1. when we install package and run update manager, are all the packages stored in /var/cache/apt/archives ?
2. let's say i make a copy of all the packages i installed and from update, store them in a backup drive. How do i make a freshly installed Ubuntu to copy/use these packages instead of downloading them from the internet?
Question how can I update latex packages is there any easy way to do it in linux, such as in windows (miktex for example).I have installed all the TeX-live packages on the ubuntu software center. But I seem to have outdated older packages.03156397135
View 6 Replies View RelatedE: Type 'ain' is not known on line 3 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gnome3-team-gnome3-natty.listE: The list of sources could not be read. i get this error when i try to update my packages, anybody know a fix?
View 3 Replies View Relatedwhen i tried to update Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04, somehow the installation stopped. Thinking that the installation was completed i restarted my desktop, only to find out that i have over 600 broken packages. Fixing the packages don't seem to work because he is unable to correct the dependencies. My guess is that i now have half Ubuntu 10.10 and half Ubuntu 11.04
View 1 Replies View RelatedI need to substitute the openssl package modified by ubuntu with the original openssl package because I have to collaborate to a university project that use SSLv2 protocol.I tried to install it manually (by ./config and make) but nowaday the system continues to use the old one (0.98o-5ubuntu1).What i have to do to substitute the modified version with the original one?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm relatively new to using Ubuntu. I'm currently using Karmic, and got an error message when trying to update packages
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy internet connection is one where I have to pay according to the amount of data transferred and Ubuntu updates require large downloads. I was wondering if there was some way to export the list of packages required for an update in ubuntu and then go and download them from another PC. (The other PC in question will be running windows).I'd love to know of any apps that can do this ..If there aren't any can someone tell me if there is a way to do this? I am just getting used to Linux but I still have no experience at all with writing shell scripts (which I suppose would be needed for this sort of thing).
So in summary, this is what I want. Synaptic (or any other package manager in Linux) should generate a file with all the packages that should be downloaded. A program on the PC with a better internet connection then interprets this file and downloads the packages creating a local copy of the packages. These local copies are then transferred to the Linux box which required the updates and the updates are applied..
I load the update manager, it says partial upgrade needed, then it asks me if I want to uninstall important stuff like the network manager and ubuntu desktop and etc. No I don't want to uninstall the network manager, how would it complete the upgrade with no internet to download the upgrade from? And what would be the point in having an upgrade if I won't be able to do anything on it! This is happening all over again, heres the previous thread that mentioned pretty much what happening, along with a video somewhere in there. (It says I need to make 15 posts to post [URL].
What I'm wanting to do is Do the upgrade it keeps bugging me about, but not have to remove anything at the same time. The previous thread I just kept getting told what to do and was told it always confirms me before upgrading that its about to delete something, I already know that. I know it is confirming it, but I want to do the upgrade but disable the uninstalling part of it. Is there any mod to the synaptic manager that could possibly fix this? I'll even go as far as to compress my entire ubuntu partition into an iso and upload it somewhere for someone to take a look at (if anyone would possibly know what program would do this besides parimage or whatever, that's trying to remove the files as well in order to install).
recently installed 80mb out of 119 mb installation packages. after that packages are not getting install both by the update manger and terminal.
View 4 Replies View RelatedBack to my issue. Yesterday when I wanted to update packages...
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm running Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit as a VirtualBox (3.1.6) guest. Every time I try to run apt-get update, I get the following:
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The strangest thing is going on. I just did a fresh install of 9.10; however, apt-get upgrade returns different results then Update Manger found under System > Administration > update Manager. In addition, the apt-get upgrade method excludes a few upgrades from being installed. These upgrades are bind9, and a few for FireFox. Has anyone run into this issue recently?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'd like to update /etc/apt/sources.list with all the packages available on packages.debian.org and packages.ubuntu.com without apt-get, aptitude, and synaptic then trashing my system by trying to update all the obsolete packages. (I'm stuck with 8.04) I only want to update the packages / install new ones with their dependencies as I request them. How do I do that?
View 9 Replies View Related"the following problems were found on ur sytem: there are multiple versions of 'drakconf' in your system this package wont be cleanly updated unless u leave only one version." not only darkconf several other files too has the same error. how to uninstall duplicates?
i left the pclinuxos update (via synaptic pckage manager) and wen i came back i saw the pc had shut down, and the above and bottom toolbars has dissappeared. and the above error wen i start the package manager. how can i make a cd repair install? if this is the solution.
edit: i uninstalled duplicates but still the gnome deskop toobars still not there??
9.04 has not been updating and is giving these messages.
Failed to fetch [URL]...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.170 80]
Failed to fetch [URL]...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.170 80]
Failed to fetch [URL]...rce/Sources.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.170 80]
Failed to fetch [URL]...rce/Sources.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.170 80]
Failed to fetch [URL]...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.170 80] .....
Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.