If one accepts an update of a specific package via apt and decides the update isn't desired, what does one do? In other words, what is the most sensible and relatively easy way to rol-back to the previous version of that specific package without affecting anything else (dependencies aside of course).
I want to do this with a recent adobe plug in.
I am trying to automate yum update of specific package on a remote machine.
So far I have this:
#!/bin/bash
# Update my system
if ! yum update w3m
then
failure=1
fi
if [ $failure ]
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Two weeks ago I consumed all available FC13 updates. It was a terrible mistake. After that my my PC does not function properly and I have no clue how to fix it. I would like to get my PC in the previous (healthy) state. Is there an easy way to undo the updates? More than 60 packages were updated, but I do not remember which ones.
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Code:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install audacious
[code]....
I was building yesterday the boost-1.45.0 RPM package for CentOS 5.5.
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How can I revert back to the version I had installed, now the second-but-latest version from PPA?
I'm still trying to get comfortable with apt-get doing all my installing for me. The one question I have now is how do I find out where apt-get install "some_package" puts the package it installed for me?
View 4 Replies View Relatedhow would I backup a specific package. Really all I want is the configuration files.
the package I'm talking about is mumble-server, could I say rsync all the files that were installed, then if I wanted to drop it in just copy those back over?
If I had to wipe the installation and reinstall, could I install that package again then drop my backup copy back over it?
Dpkg tells me these are the files it installed.
Code:
dpkg-query -L mumble-server
/.
/var
/var/log
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If a software package I want to install is available in more than one repository, how can I choose which repository to install the package? And is there a way to do this with Synaptic?
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View 3 Replies View Relatedhaving had problems with getting grub2 to work on dual HDD setup...despite the most excellent advice on the forum i took the plunge and installed 10.10 from update manager within 10.04..... bingo fixed grub and now have dual boot again. but the update manager and synaptic package don't work because of libedata-cal1.2-6 file that remains..following other advice on the forum Advice gratefully received, how can i force an unistall of this package
mark@studypc:~$ sudo apt-get -f remove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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All of a sudden when I ran an update with the usual
Code:
sudo apt-get upgrade
I got an input / output error for a specific file followed by an exit with dpkg returning error code 1.
In this case the package (ubuntu-docs) is not exactly life threatening, so I would prefer any update process to simply skip that particular package and move onto the ones that are getting held up. I then opened Synaptic Package Manager where I located the erroneous package. I then unmarked the particular package (ie the blob in front of the package name was green, and the status line shows zeroes for all categories (broken, upgrade/install, remove). So far so good. I then found the 'lock version' menu item under the packages menu. I clicked it, and ran the reload thing. After that thought the package was marked for deletion however, and I once again couldn't get by this one bad package.
So (tl/dr perhaps), how can I make Synaptic / apt-get / or whatever to skip this bad package for real so that I can update my system normally going forward? (Why is it that the whole upgrade process is that fragile by the way? Surely there must the the occasional dud package upgrade that people want to skip, no? Having the whole process grind to a halt because of one issue seems border line paranoid to me. Of course on a minimal server installation where every package counts this behavior makes sense perhaps, but on a IMHO bloated plain vanilla ubuntu install?
I want to learn board specific package(BSP) for ARM processors under LINUX platform, please guide me "from where I need to start, what are the things I need to purchase" hoping to hear from you soon.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm using Debian testing but I want Shotwell (and nothing else) from experimental. I also like to be notified when there is an update to Shotwell in experimental. Will that be achieved if I add experimental to sources.conf and the following to preferences?
Package: shotwell
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 600
Code:could not add package update for poppler-data-0.4.0-1.fc12(noarch)updates: poppler-data-0.4.0-1.fc12.noarch.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen 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 RelatedI'm developing with puppet, and I need to do an aptitude update from a specific file, here is my configuration: The file sources.list in /etc/apt/ is deleted. I've created 3 files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d each one with their repos:
00-debian_sources.list
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
[code]....
All the repos are updated/refreshed , and I only want to refresh/update the specific repos insie of the file 01-debian_security_updates.list. On the other hand if I put some repos in the sources.list and delete the 3 files and I create an external file for example in /tmp/temprepo and I do the command aptitude update -o dir::etc::sourcelist=/tmp/temprepo it works fine.give some workaround to update and then upgrade packages from the files specified in my config.
I like to load other distro's via their own grub.
So at the min I add an entry to code...
however when update-grub2 is run it also adds its own entries (for arch linux).
Is there a way to stop the update-grub2 script automatically adding a entry on a specific partition ?
Is there a package I can download for Ubuntu that would allow me to type in,for example, cd [tab key] and then it would go through the recent cd commands I've typed in?
View 2 Replies View RelatedUbuntu 10.04 64 bit I have not been able to update using the update manager or by using the package manager. It seems when the update manager tries to download all the requests fail.Anyone else had this problem??
View 1 Replies View Relatedwhen i update my computer, i receive this error message can anyone tell me why and how to fix it ? Failed to fetch [URL] 504 Gateway Time-out Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have 9.10 ubuntu installation - I have updated all packages and it is up-to-date. However, I have a issue with the latex installation, not latex so to say, it is the pstricks
Installed package :
texlive-pstricks
version - 2007.dfsg.17-2ubuntu1
Also it is the latest version available in the repo. However, this is not the
latest in pstricks. I find that version in the new 10.04 is 2009-7ubuntu3
Is there some way to get this installed in 9.10? Or I have to upgrade my whole installation?
I am having problems with my Drupl install, which I got from the repository with apt-get.
Each time a update comes out, about once a month, my one Drupal site breaks.
How do I turn off the feature just for the Drupal packages? I am downloading the install files from [URL], and going with the tar.gz files.
I tried to install the packages for atmel at76 in order to get my usb wifi dongle work, the Kpackagemanager told me that "some modifcation are necessary to acomplish the task" on followings packages:
linux-generic
linux image-generic
linux firmware.
When selecting okay the following error message appear :
"The following packages block the update: linux-generic linux-image-generic linux-firmware"
I am unable to update any package due to some error in acroread:
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 318647 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace acroread 9.3.3-1lucid1 (using .../acroread_9.3.4-1lucid1_amd64.deb) ...
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I'm new to GNU/Linux and recently installed Edubuntu 10.10 beta on a workplace computer. I'm currently a technology intern at a public school and want to install Edubuntu on some older computers here. I am working behind a network proxy provided by the department of education.I tried to install flashplugin-nonfree and noticed I didn't have a full package list. After running sudo apt-get update I get the error "unable to connect to[url]....
I'm thinking this might have to do with the network proxy, but for some reason I'm able to browse http:[url]... just fine in Firefox.How do I update the package list?
Edit: I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on another machine at work and it has the same issue, i.e. I can't update the package list.
Edit 2: I am using a .pac file for the proxy.
For the last 10 days, whenever I try to update my packages, it fails with the following error messages:
Code:
Err http://canonical.ubuntu.com natty/partner Sources
Something wicked happened resolving 'canonical.ubuntu.com:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname)
Err http://canonical.ubuntu.com natty/partner amd64 Packages
Something wicked happened resolving 'canonical.ubuntu.com:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname)
Err http://canonical.ubuntu.com natty/partner Translation-en_GB
Something wicked happened resolving 'canonical.ubuntu.com:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname)
Err http://canonical.ubuntu.com natty/partner Translation-en
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Is there a way to undelete a just-deleted file in JFS? I can't seem to find any information on it. I'd have sworn I did this before but didn't save the steps.
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