Slowly but surely learning to live without synaptic. How do I find out which packages exists (and what they do) using apt-get?man apt-get does not give the answer or I don't see it in there.
View 8 RepliesIs there any linux command to find out if a user exists? It should something like this: if user exists it returns 1, if he doesn't it returns 0.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI did the UPGRADE from Karmic Koala to Lucid, and everything was going well. But now I've been having problems with the UBUNTU UPDATE tool for the last 2 weeks. Every time I try to do an update check on the packages, I get the following message:Failed to fetch http:[url]....Release Unable to find expected entry deb-src/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)
Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.I've tried changing the servers to MAIN and others, and still no way to solve it. I've also checked for other posts, but haven't found a solution yet. Here's my SOURCES LIST (gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list)# See http:[url].... for how to upgrade to # newer versions of the distribution.
I'm learning Bash and can't find how to say "if file1 exists and file2 exits then...".I thought this may work:
Code:
file1="/root/file1"
file2="/root/file2"
[code]....
I have installed Ubuntu 9.04 Server on my iMac G4 and now I can't download any Packages. I know I have internet because I can use the built in w3m web browser. I also can run ifconfig. When I type sudo apt-get install lynx or anything else it says it can't find it. F.Y.I tasksel worked to install lamp server.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty and I was experimenting with theming. But I need to install 4 packages which I can't seem to find on the net.I DO NOT want to update as this is the last version in which you can completely customize the login screen.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI can't find gnome-mount using aptitude, but certainly it is listed in packages.debian. org/squeeze. Maybe I need add a new repository. But how do I know what is that repository?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am running 9.04 and would like to get the newest version of Songbird. I don't want to upgrade just yet it that is needed so are there are other ways of doing so? If no one knows how to find .deb packages could they let me know how i could install the .tar.gz format offered on the website?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to find some .deb packages for some experimental Compiz plugins, mainly the Headtracking plugin. I have tried compiling the plugin, but I have had no end of trouble doing so. Come to think of it, I don't think I have ever successfully compiled a piece of software in Linux. So, are there any .deb packages for this plugin?
View 4 Replies View Relatedand probably aren't going to come back. Seems like a big incentive to upgrade to Squeeze.
View 10 Replies View Related1 laptop with HDD(1) - old, small,5400. Fedora 12 installed on it backup user settings - on external USB HDD (/home/myusername) for fun - tried to upgrade to 13 using preinstall - failled put new HDD(2) and clean install F13 update the F13 install "remembered" package move back from backup all stuff from external hdd to /home/myusername onto new HDD(2) - everything is back as I know now I need to verify what packages was installed onto the old HDD I have access to it (i have one USB SATA addaptor) for the new install I can issue one
Code:
rpm -qa
my question is what I need to do to make the rpm to check on the old HDD
Could anyone let me which repository I need for Maxima? Also, I installed Octave from a different repository but I can't seem to find any of the additional packages, like the signals package for example.
View 9 Replies View RelatedIs there any repo where we can find KDE 4.4.3 packages?We have used to get the latest stable KDE at the day of release (that means today for KDE 4.4.3).
View 8 Replies View RelatedI would like to use a package manager to generate a list of all installed packages that are not depended on by any other installed package. That is to say, a list of installed packages that are not required by any other installed package. I believe these are referred to as packages with 0 forward dependencies. I believe they are also called "leaves."
I am on Red Hat, so a method of doing this with rpm, yum or smart would be optimal. I discovered the package-cleanup program that is a part of yum-utils. According to package-cleanup's man page, the option --leaves will "list leaf nodes in the local RPM database. Leaf nodes are RPMs that are not relied upon by any other RPM." I thought this would do what I wanted, but it seems to do a poor job. It listed only two packages. While those two packages are indeed required by nothing else, I am sure there are many more than two on my system. (For example, it did not list firefox)
I want to clean my ubuntu installation and I want to find packages which I installed using .deb files or using another (not ubuntu) repositories. I'm sure it can be done using apt or dselect or dpkg, but how?)
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a short question. I want to find out which packages are depending on some package. For example, I want to know which packages are depending on evolution.Is there any possibility how to find it out?
View 11 Replies View RelatedI would like to know what packages are currently installed in my linux machine. My machine is running CentOS 5.4. There is no GUI. All I have is command line interface.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI can't change my screen resolution but my fedora doesn't have system-config-display. Trying to install this package and for some reason it is not listed under the add/remove software, and yum says it can't find it either.
# yum install -y system-config-display
results
No package system-config-display available.
Error: Nothing to do
Searching in the add/remove software I found some others such as system-config-firewall, system-config-date and etc but it doesn't have system-config-display. Is there any other way to install this package? currently running kernal linux 2.6.35.9-64.fc14.x86_64 , fedora 14 on 64 bit system gnome 2.32.0
where can i find the latest packages for telepathy-butterfly? my empathy can't make a msn group chat. is that i need to update the telepathy-butterfly to 0.5.15?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am new in Linux and don't know much thing about it. Because of this fact, I cannot install a CVS Server in my SuSE. Where I can find a CVS Server download file and explain how am i going to install this on my Linux? Actually I searched on Internet but I couldn't find any packages or files to download?
View 6 Replies View RelatedDoes anybody know where to find RPM packages for Postgreql, for RedHat 3.0 ES, i386 ?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a new install of Slack 13 and upgrading to current will break a lot of things for my 4 year old son (he's a gnome guy, what can I say). I will be using this machine too, and I NEED KDE, but of course the stock KDE packages are unstable to say the least. I know I've seen people talking of downloading upgraded kde packages for slackware 13, but when I google, I find a lot of things complaining about the stock KDE and of course Eric's packages for current.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want to clean my system out of old packages. I can use rpmorphan to find orphaned packages, but how do I find packages that are not longer present in their vendor repository?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a computer with internet access with amd64 architecture running Debian stable (Lenny). I have another computer with NO internet access with i386 architecture running Debian stable (Lenny).I want to download some packages for the i386 computer using the amd64 computer. So far, the only way I can see to do this is to use dpkg-architecture to temporarily change to i386 on the internet computer, run aptitude with the download-only option to retrieve the packages I need with all suitable dependencies, then switch the internet computer back over to amd64.
I can't imagine I'm the only person who ever needed to do this, and yet I've had no luck finding any advice. The method I described seems rather awkward - is there a more elegant solution?
I apologize to the membership, I realize now the absurdity of this subject. Having now studied the online repository search functions closer, I see it appears packages are automatically retrieved with all necessary dependencies. As such, it is not necessary to use apt and its various functions to do the job.
Fedora 14 I recently went to install some software using the source files.When I ran the command
Code:
./configure
I got a message saying that
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package gthread-2.0 not found
After searching the internet some one had the same problem. I needed to install a package called
Code:
glib2-devel
However, rather that searching the internet.
I'm trying to upgrade from 8.04 to 9.10 via 8.10 etc. When I run update manager, I get this:
W:Failed to fetch [URL] Unable to find expected entry universal/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?), E:Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
and then it closes. I've unselected all the third party packages and tried various servers, but no difference. I can wget the file, but when I look at it I see entries for "universe/binary-i386/Release", but nothing for "universal" .
I'm wondering if there's a way to verify the integrity of installed packages/programs against official repos. I did an update via synaptic about a week ago and it asked me to upgrade several packages such as login, su, passwd, groupadd, useradd, lastlog, and several others. Right away I was concerned about this, but I figured it's via synaptic, must be safe. Well now it's a week later and I'm trying to find some "last updated" info for these packages, changlelogs, whatever, to verify that they were indeed official releases/updates, and I'm coming up empty.
Is there something I can do to verify that these files and my system are still intact?
I have fedora 11 installed on my laptop and I have
no Internet connection in my Fedora. My Internet
connection is in Win XP.
Therefore I am searching for the packages of Fedora
on DVD so whenever I need them I can copy them from
DVD instead of retrieving from Internet?
I would be grateful if any one could help me in this matter.
I downloaded the latest version Ubuntu from ubuntu.com and I am trying to install Oracle XE from the below link but for the first step couldn't find "deb" command, is the command replaced[URL]
View 3 Replies View Relatedi think a bug exists in the default cd dvd writer for ubuntu. where would i report that?it asked whether id like to use the third iso standard because the file was larger than 2 gigs, and i did, and the checksum failed at the end, reporting an error and confusing me for a few minutes.
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