Questions tagged [apt]
APT is short for Advanced Packaging Tool, the package manager for Debian-based distributions. It is also the most used tool for installing packages in Ubuntu. Questions about using any of the apt commands should use this tag.
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Google Chrome update broken
I have installed Google Chrome from Google's official page a few years ago. It used to work fine, but in the last few weeks I noticed I don't get updates and the system is complaining about ...
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Can't upgrade Kubuntu 25.10 to 26.04 to new version because of broken build-essentials dependencies [duplicate]
$ LANG=C sudo apt full-upgrade
Not upgrading:
cpp-15 libasan8 libgcc-15-dev libgomp1 liblsan0 libstdc++-15-dev libubsan1
cpp-15-x86-64-linux-gnu ...
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ubuntu-pro-client won't upgrade to 37.2ubuntu~24.04
I see still 1 package ready for upgrade :
Erweiterte Sicherheitswartung (ESM) für Applications ist aktiviert.
1 Aktualisierung kann sofort angewendet werden.
entering the expected command results in :
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Unable to do-release-upgrade from 22.04 to 24.04: package guile-2.2-libs held back
I'm running ubuntu 22.04.05, trying to upgrade to 24, but apt tells me "Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading.". When I try using apt to upgrade, it tells ...
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Running apt upgrade run dir everyhting except I get an apache2 err at the end
whenever I run
sudo apt upgrade -y
it goes through for so many components but at the end I get
Adding boot menu entry for UEFI Firmware Settings ...
done
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.39-...
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Ubuntu 24.04 stuck on emergency boot
Specs:
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.12
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0
Qt Version: 5.15.13
Kernel Version: 5.15.13 6.8.0-111-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 16 x Intel Core I9-9900K ...
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Error about missing release file for NGINX
I previously had Ondrej NGINX installed, but needed to remove it, as per this question:
Unable to remove Ondrej NGINX
Then I followed the official NGINX installation notes here:
https://nginx.org/en/...
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How can I update package like openvpn on offline Ubuntu machine? (no internet) without using Keryx [duplicate]
I have two machines: one with internet access (online) and one without (offline). OpenVPN has been updated on the online machine. How can I update OpenVPN on the offline machine without internet ...
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What's stopping my system from fetching https://archive.ubuntu.com/Ubuntu/dists/stable/InRelease
Whenever I try to update my computer, I get the same thing even after cleaning, removing broken dependencies.
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openssh-server post-installation script error (exit status 10) and SSH not working
I’m encountering an issue where openssh-server fails during configuration, and SSH is currently not working on my system.
This error appears during package operations, even when I’m not explicitly ...
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Ongoing connection failures to ppa.launchpadcontent.net during apt update
As of this morning, I’m still having problems downloading package metadata from Launchpad PPAs during apt update. These repositories were working previously, but now several of them consistently fail ...
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Has anyone seen this before?
I have this error message in my update window (Kubuntu). What is it? Why is it there? How do I get rid of it? It doesn't appear to be affecting anything.
W: OpenPGP signature verification failed: ...
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cant install ANY ubuntu stuff, aswell as ubuntu running slower than windows [duplicate]
i installed ubuntu a month or so ago, and its been running worse than windows. nothing i have done has been able to fix this, ive been trying for over 10 hours atealst. i recently saw my software ...
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How to fix this ? I use ubuntu 22.04 LTS on WSL [duplicate]
sudo apt update
Ign:1 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Ign:1 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Ign:1 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/...
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Is there a mirror or alternative way to apt update given ppa.launchpadcontent.net has failed for three days?
Given there is an ongoing attack on Ubuntu infrastructure - see Ubuntu Infrastructure including ppa.launchpadcontent.net not responding, returning 503 or other errors - and that although ubuntu ...
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