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Ubuntu Linux Unable to Install Packages
When your attempts to install packages on Ubuntu fail, you may need to make sure your sources.list file includes new directives to allow installation of those packages.
When your attempts to install packages on Ubuntu fail, you may need to make sure your sources.list file includes new directives to allow installation of those packages.
After several more hours of searching for, and work on, solutions for this problem I’ve found one that seems to work fairly consistently. This mess of a dumpster fire is burning slightly lower this fine day. I would strongly recommend trying this method first since it seems to have consistent Read more…
Debian, rightfully so, retired the lenny distribution some time ago. Unfortunately, every now and then there might be a system sitting out there that still has it running. For security reasons it is very important that you upgrade your system to a newer distribution, sometimes it's necessary to install a package Read more…
Reinstalling a package in Debian isn't too hard (read the man page). However, for those that Google instead of manpage, this is a quick couple notes on some helpful reinstall points. First, to reinstall a package, issue the following: apt-get –reinstall install <package-name> Now, if you're working through reinstalling a Read more…