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Can't install any package: "package linux-image-5.4.0-42-generic is missing final newline"?
I tried to install some package updates on my Ubuntu 20.04.5, but everything fails with:
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files list file for package 'linux-image-5.4.0-42-generic' is ...
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How can I configure Pacman to warn user of an update for a certain package?
I would like to be warned against an update to a particular package on arch linux using pacman.
I use some custom information in the header files for gcc-libs. But every time gcc-libs gets updated, ...
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"apt-get upgrade sqlmap" is upgrading all packages instead of just sqlmap. Is this expected behavior?
I issued the following commands, combined with a double-ampersand, i.e "&&".
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade sqlmap
Apparently all the installed packages are being upgrading. This ...
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Why does upgrading through Ansible commonly considered "idempotent"?
I know that an idempotent function returns a result which is can be returned more than once without changing the application essentially (like adding zero to a number or multiplying that number by 1).
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How does the update process work for different install methods? [closed]
From my understanding there are four ways to install packages:
Build from source and install
Install binary
Install a deb/rpm file
Install from repository
In Ubuntu for example, are packages ...
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