Yeah, apt-get systems dont support rpm systems and vice-versa..
One is RedHat (CentOS, Fedora, Scientific Linux) the other is Debian (Mint, [KLUX]buntu).
Those use completly diffrent packaging systems.
You just tried to (re-)install a non-existent package.
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Have a try with:
Code:
sudo apt-get --reinstall apt-get
That is considered to be worthwhile before upgrading/reinstalling the rest of the system.
Hi all,
Till now i was able to do apt-get update. but today i started to the following error:
# apt-get update
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (2 No such file or directory)
E: Unable to lock the list directory
#
Could any one let me know how to solve it.
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i have this script i wrote, it chokes when running the add install client commandit keeps telling me the add_install_client command is incorrect.
When I put the print statement in front of the command so it will echo it, the command looks right on the screen. Yes im am an ametuer, im trying to... (2 Replies)
hi i keep getting this error message when i try and run emacs:
/usr/lib/dld.sl: Unresolved symbol: pthread_mutex_init (code) from ./emacs
Abort
any ideas? thanks ed. (4 Replies)
Keep getting
IO Error
and
•nonnumeric port: '' (InvalidURL; misconfigured server?)
This in relation to RSS feeds. We have done a load of work to try to get RSS feeds working.
Now they work. But they wont validate.
http://www.ukcitymedia.co.uk/news/rss.php?feed=New_News
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Solaris 10 Server refuse to connect :wall:
fork: Resource temporarily unavailable , server unexpectedly unavailable network connection , refuse error, disconnect message, fatal error type2, (protocol error type2)
Issue has been resolved after taken few steps :b:
First of all need to check... (1 Reply)
Hello, am working on a suse linux system and trying to connect the server to the monitoring system we use. On checking the logs, i see that the snmp service is unavailable and would appreciate any help on how to fix this.
snmpd stop - done
snmpd start - done
snmpd status - unused (instead... (16 Replies)
Hi There
I have a 2 node failover SG cluster, with a 4 packages running, that due to various reason I cant fail over/test for a while.
Therefore have created a test package to test over the 2 nodes. The package resources include a presented LUN from our HP SAN and a package IP address. The... (2 Replies)
I am trying to update/add a repository. Whenever I try to do a
sudo apt-get update
I get the message:
E: Malformed line 59 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse)
E: The list of sources could not be read.
and when I do:
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
I see... (1 Reply)
I am trying to use REST API and curl in a bash script to generate a http report. The curl command at the end of the script should generate a html file but instead I get an error "HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable".
This is the script
#!/bin/bash
export... (7 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
tasksel
TASKSEL(8) Debian specific manpage TASKSEL(8)NAME
tasksel - a user interface for installing tasks
SYNOPSIS
tasksel install <task>
tasksel remove <task>
tasksel [options]
DESCRIPTION
tasksel shows all available tasks and allows to user to select ones to install
OPTIONS -t, --test
test mode; don't actually install or remove packeges
--new-install
automatically select some tasks without even displaying them to the user; default other tasks to on; used during new Debian installs.
--list-tasks
list on stdout the tasks that would be displayed in the tasksel interface
--task-packages task
lists on stdout the packages that are available and part of the given task
Note that this option may be given more than once.
--task-desc task
outputs the extended description of the given task
--debconf-apt-from waypoint
Start the debconf-apt-progress bar here.
--debconf-apt-to waypoint
End the debconf-apt-progress bar here.
--debconf-apt-progress options
Pass the specified options to the debconf-apt-progress command that tasksel runs. These will be appended to any --from and --to options
constructed by tasksel itself based on --debconf-apt-from and --debconf-apt-to options.
SEE ALSO dpkg(8), apt-get(8)FILES
/usr/share/tasksel/*.desc and /usr/local/share/tasksel/*.desc are used to define tasks.
AUTHOR
tasksel was written by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org> and Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
HISTORY
This document first appeared with tasksel-1.0
2.88ubuntu8 2010-07-16 TASKSEL(8)
10-11-2013
