Questions tagged [dpkg]
The base software for Debian/Ubuntu/Mint package management. Use this tag for questions about dpkg and its companion utilities and the .deb file format.
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How to install the dependencies of a source debian package in the local system? [duplicate]
If I want to recompile a package available somewhere in the apt repositories, an apt-get build-dep <packagename> will do what I want. However, very often, not that is case. Very often, the ...
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Ubuntu Server 24.04 difficulty with uninstalling Postgresql
I have packages that I need to remove including postgresql-client-16, postgresql-client-18, postgresql-client-common and postgreql-common. Whenever I try to remove/purge any of them I get a message ...
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What tells dpkg to rebuild/add a driver using dkms when removing/adding headers?
when I try to install qemu-kvm I get an error message that my own driver can not be added again to the DMKS tree. $ sudo apt -y install qemu-kvm Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree.....
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Prevent package upgrade with `apt`
I'm maintaining a Debian package for which we don't currently support upgrades. This means that upgrading this package will result in a broken installation due to configuration files not being ...
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Where are the LC_ locale global environment variables configured?
I want to change the language of my computer. I tried doing this with sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales. this changed the LANG environment variable in /etc/default/locale but none of the LC environment ...
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Kernel headers for 6.14.3-061403-generic not found
I have a package for a driver that I'm trying to build and deploy on 6.14.3. However the build breaks with the error: Building for 6.14.3-061403-generic Building for architecture amd64 Module build ...
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How to fix broken grep on Debian
I upgraded my system to Debian bookworm and the process seemed to proceed normally but ended with some errors. When I try to use apt to address the problem, I end up with a screen full of the ...
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.deb from a python project with multiple modules
General overview I try to make a debian .deb package from a python project with multiple modules, like this: ├── main.py ├── setup.py └── triumphum ├── autocomplection.py ├── symbols.py ├──...
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