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For questions pertaining to aptitude, it's usage and troubleshooting.

A front-end to the Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) acting as an user interface for software package installation.

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How to add ppa entries manually on Raspberry Pi

I would like to know how I can add a "ppa" entry manually on the Raspberry Pi for the "apt" program. Where should I add my "ppa" entry (in which file) ? For example, I want to add the following ppa entry for guvcview. ppa:pj-assis/ppa
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Getting a deb repository error for collabora

I'm brave enough to try out the upgrade from wheezy to jessie on my pi according to this: Upgrade to Raspbian Jessie So far it runs pretty smooth, except that I get an error when updating the repositories here: root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# aptitude…
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Cannot install xpra: unmet dependancies

I'm trying to install Xpra, however it seems that there are missing packages I cannot install. Xpra fails with the following error: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are…
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Can't install iceweasel on RPi3 using apt-get or aptitude - Failed to fetch

I cant install Iceweasel on my Pi for some reason. I have tried the following options: sudo apt-get install iceweasel Error: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: …
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How are Raspbian repositories organized?

I'm trying to understand how the Raspbian repositories are organized. Reading around in the forums and browsing the archive site I've understood that there is: wheezy that refers to the wheezy distro jessie that refers to the jessie distro, the…
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LIRC Doesn't detect remotes

I've got some data that I want to send through IR, and I've got one remote working, with this config file. However, this is the only config file that LIRC recognizes. I've been putting all files into /etc/lirc/lirc.conf.d/. This file, formatted the…
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Running "sudo dpkg --configure -a" fails

I set up RaspBMC on my Pi. I had a broken repo, so I SSH'd into it and ran sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade to fix it. From that, I get E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. So…
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Zoneminder installation. What version?

On the default Debian repository the Zoneminder package available is the version 1.26, however the last version is 1.29 (with a functionality I need). Following the advise on Zoneminder 1.29 I added the repository (*) deb…
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Problems updating packages

I am using a RasPi 2 running the latest version of Raspbian (as of 12/5/2016). uname -a produces this: Linux raspberrypi 4.4.11-v7+ #888 SMP Mon May 23 20:10:33 BST 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux Here is the error message produced by the command below: $…
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Can `apt` be used to install only the `man` page for a package

As the title asks, is it possible to install only the man page for a package - without installing the package itself? If so - what apt options are needed to make this happen? I've reviewed man apt, man apt-get, man apt-preferences & done a brief…
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