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How check if new packages are available in Debian 12 without root privilegies
I know how check if new packages are available with root privilegies. But how can I do it from shell script without sudo or editing sudoers.
I'm using Debian 12 with openbox.
Thanks!
PS. I know about ...
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version `XCRYPT_2.0' not found after Update Debian 10 to Debian 12
I was instructed to upgrade Debian 10 to Debian 12. After the upgrade, I noticed that the ssh.service was not working. Now I found out that no 'apt' commands work. I can't install anything.
Here the ...
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swupdate and target image size
I try to use swupdate to update my system. My swu file is pretty simple
software =
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Error with sudo apt update. ign: 1 deb.debian.org
On my Debian Bookworm machine, packages using apt are not updated with errors Ign:1 deb.debian.org/debian bookworm Inrelease... Ign:2 security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm Inrelease... Ign:3 ...
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How to do only low impact upgrades/fixes of packages on a Debian/apt based system? (on testing/unstable)
Initial question (please see new question below)
EDIT: apparently, filtering on urgency would not be so efficient, so, please go below for amended question.
This question is quite the same than this ...
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Why does Debian 11 apt suggest me to upgrade to the current kernel version?
I am quite new to Linux and Debian. I really like the fact that apt can be used to upgrade both software and system packages at the same time. Much better than Windows.
However, I am baffled about one ...
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Why is Debian connecting to a CDN server in the background, automatically?
I noticed my VM with a fairly barebones Debian 11 install periodically tries to connect to
debian.map.fastlydns.net on port 80.
It looks like this domain is what the DNS record of http://deb.debian....
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How can we stop Opera from usurping /usr/bin/gnome-www-browser?
While Firefox is of course my browser of choice, I have a few others, for reasons, including Opera.
In XFCE's "Settings Manager", in "Default Applications", Firefox is duly ...
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cron-apt informed me that there are pending security updates on my Debian system but I can't find the corresponding announcement. How shall I proceed?
Today, cron-apt informed me that there are pending security updates on my Debian stable system:
CRON-APT RUN [/etc/cron-apt/config]: Tue Jan 25 04:00:01 CET 2022
CRON-APT SLEEP: 3076, Tue Jan 25 04:51:...
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Debian: The repository CDROM does not have a Release file
I have just finished installing Debian on my laptop; I had to add manually the drivers for my WiFi card after the installation, I simply installed them via sudo apt ./name.deb, where name.deb is a ....
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Could not resolve 'deb.debian.org' while apt update debian 11 bullseye
I installed debian 11 Bullseye and here is my source.list file:
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
deb ...
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Thousands of packages to update
Normally I use aptitude upgrade or aptitude full-upgrade to get my system up to date. Since I am fiddling around with Vbox installation, I followed https://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox strictly and ...
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Cannot install xcb package
I tried sudo -f remove and even autoclean but my new packages and updates aren't getting downloaded.
admin@pop-os:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree ...
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PHP security updates in Debian after PHP version EOL
I got a quite stupid question I am afraid but I am kind of in need of written confirmation of my suspicion.
Consider a Debian 9 with PHP from the official repositories. The PHP version shipped by ...
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apt complains about change of Suite from testing to stable
I'm trying to apt-get update my Debian or Devuan distribution, but am getting an error:
Get:14 http://deb.devuan.org//merged beowulf InRelease [25.6 kB] ...
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How to disable downloading packages from the internet in Debian, and instead let it ask me to insert DVDs?
Here is my problem. I have downloaded all the 14 DVD images and burned them to disks, because I like it that way. I don't want updates. And I don't want the latest packages.
I want packages from the ...
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Cannot run apt update in a Debian docker container [duplicate]
I've got the error in the docker container php:7.2.20-cli
E: Release file for http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/buster-updates/InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 9h 1min 57s). Updates ...
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Comfortable way to keep Debian Buster up to date?
So far I have only used Debian (and other Linux distributions based on Debian) for testing purposes and on non-productive systems. On these systems, I occasionally carried out updates manually via the ...
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How do I update tor in Devuan
Well, I was trying to enter some onion sites but I wasn't able to, so I checked my tor version and it was Tor version 0.2.9.16 (git-9ef571339967c1e5)., do you guys know how to update on the console?
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Can I update Debian through grub? [closed]
After an update of Debian 9 ('Stretch'), I can't open any program. Is there anything I can do on grub? Can't even open a terminal.
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Permission denied as root [closed]
new clean Debian 10 install. Software manager does not work. Have to add where to look for updates. update does not work because the wrong repository was entered during installation. Right-click does ...
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how remove sid (unstable) repositories
While setting up Debian, allowed sid repositories to install some stuff, but forget disable it after.
So latter executed apt update & upgrade.
That added more than 500 mb of insecure repos.
How ...
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LibreOffice won't automatically update on Debian 9?
Debian 9 comes with LibreOffice (my LibreOffice is 5.2.7.2). LibreOffice, however, is already on version 6.3.0. Why doesn't it update automatically, since they're two of the biggest open source ...
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OpenJDK 8 support period in Debian Stretch 9
According to the Debian releases page Stretch 9 has support until ~2022. What does this mean for the OpenJDK 8 package?
How long will security updates be available for OpenJDK 8?
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Debian testing - upgrade "Buster" to "Bullseye" version, no server for security.debian.org
I tried to upgrade my Debian System using apt, the repository is set to "testing" so I expected it to change to the next version "Bullseye" from "Buster" automatically but since "Buster" moved on I ...
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apt update has two failed index files and I can't find anything on the web about what to do
I'm updating one of my systems and I get an error which I don't know how to fix or what the problem is.
Here is the error:
E: Failed to fetch http://the.earth.li/debian/dists/stretch-updates/main/...
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How to fully upgrade Debian from command line (including release_version)?
I desire to totally upgrade everything in Debian:Stable including the release version, to the newest stable release available:
Packages update
Packages upgrade
D:S minor_version
D:S major_version
D:S ...
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Is there any disadvantage of making software update and upgrade automatic? [closed]
On Lubuntu 18.04, Software Updater notifies me there is update available from time to time. If I happen to have the time to, I will manually run sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade.
I am thinking about ...
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Unable to install i3 on Debian stretch [closed]
I'd like to try out the i3 window manager. When I run apt-get install i3 I run into the following error;
root@hammerhead:~# apt-get install i3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree ...
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apt-get upgrade holds back a kernel update. What are the official instructions for applying updates on Debian 9?
I saw the following on Debian 9 "stretch":
# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following ...
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Debian : cannot install update : "The transaction did not complete"
I have an error message that is popping up every time I boot my Debian 8.10. It says (sorry if mistakes, I'm translating from French) :
Failed to update.
The offline update has failed in an ...
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How to safely perform large #'s of package upgrades in Debian Unstable?
I have been running Debian Unstable (sid) for a few months. The only serious issue I have had is Python3 breaking temporarily during an upgrade, and fortunately I was able to fix it within a day, once ...
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Average update size on Debian
I want to set up a NAT gateway on AWS to put some private EC2 instances behind them.
Since NAT gateway pricing also depends on
Price per GB data processed
I was wandering whether there is an ...
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Debian Stretch: gnome-software segfault in libgs_plugin_systemd-updates.so
In the latest update saga, gnome-software has started segfaulting. Of course my parents don't notice this. It just means they won't get notifications for security updates, and the PC will get ...
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Install partly downloaded updates in Debian
From time to time I update my Debian by running:
aptitude update && aptitude full-upgrade
but before running it I often forget or deliberately skip running aptitude clean which removes old ...
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Debsecan doesn't show pending updates from Debian-Security
I'm using debsecan to install security updates in my Debian jessie box. I thought that after installing all the packages reported I shouldn't have any pending updatess from Debian-Security repo but it ...
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How to install specific package here or prevent the notice in apt?
I update apt packages, and see that there is a package which can be updated because of the following notice.
1 package can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see it.
Options are
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Why getting this ouput for apt update?
I run sudo apt update but I get the following.
There is no TMSU repository in my sources.list, but still I get http://ppa.launchpad.net/tmsu/daily/ubuntu artful Release' does not have a Release file.
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Does it make a difference whether I update packages via Apper or the Software Center in Debian?
I used to update my packages via Apper but as it, unlike the Software Center, doesn't show popups when new updates are available I'd like to use the Software Center for updating.
And now I'm wondering ...
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Debian 9 sources.list
I have installed Debian 9 Stretch stable version today.
I want to update my system. But I didn't find package list for sources.list. In the site, I found Debian 9 sources.list package. But this list ...
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How to upgrade sudo from 1.8.19p1-1 to 1.8.19p1-2 on debian Stretch to avoid the " Potential overwrite of arbitrary files" flaw?
I have the sudo 1.8.19p1-1 installed on debian Stretch. I need to install the 1.8.19p1-2 to avoid the Potential overwrite of arbitrary files flaw.
Package Type Release Fixed Version ...
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"Important updates installed" keeps popping up
Since a few weeks, I get a notification after each boot telling me that important updates has been installed. Even if I dismiss it then immediately reboot, it comes again. It starts to be quite ...
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Why don't non-package managed software update by themselves?
I am a user of Debian based distros - Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint. I know that often the latest versions of software are not in the repos, so I frequently download them directly from source and install ...
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Debian update without data loss
Is it possible to update the Debian distribution without losing the old settings, configuration, files and folders?
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Issues with apt-get update command
When I try to run the command sudo apt-get update I get the following:
Ign http://security.debian.org jessie/updates InRelease
Ign http://security.debian.org jessie/updates Release.gpg ...
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unattended-upgrades does not upgrade packages from backport
unattended-upgrades works fine, I get daily updates, but once in a while, when I open aptitude, I realize backports packages are not automatically upgraded.
This happens on two different machines (...
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How unstable is debian sid in practice? [closed]
I've been using debian testing for a while now, but it seems to me that the software there is quite outdated. So far, I never dared installing debian sid on my laptop out of fear that it was totally ...
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Why failing to tlmgr update TeXLive in Debian 8.5?
I run unsuccessfully the following and get strange output 404 first and then unknown hash from wget:
root@masi:/home/masi/Documents/# tlmgr update --self
output
(running on Debian, switching to ...
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Manual Thunderbird update in Debian 8 Jessie Linux with Gnome
After manually installing Mozilla Thunderbird on Debian 8 Jessie according to this instructions, and it's working fine. However, I cannot update it!
Thunderbird self warns me that an available update ...
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How to disable PackageKit software update password dialog?
The PackageKit Project dialog keeps popping up to prompt for the root password on my Debian Jessie desktop, apparently assuming that the logged in account has root permissions or knows the root ...
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