I accidentally deleted some files in var/lib. I don't know what I have deleted. Terminal too then disappeared since I messed up with Gnome-Purge. I then reinstalled terminal using TTY. But then when I try to install some package, Unmet dependencies 'Try apt-fix broken install' with no package name. I do not want to reinstall Ubuntu.
Also I tried `sudo apt-get install -f. It returned:
I was able to find what packages are corrupt by doing sudo dpkg -C. The result is:
Try to reinstall ubuntu-desktop metapackage:
sudo apt-get install –reinstall ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get build-dep ubuntu-desktop
This will install again all the base system and dependencies without needing to format your computer. If you're using a flavor such as Xubuntu, just replace ubuntu-desktop with the corresponding metapackage, like xubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, etc.
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I tried installing the libdouble-conversion-dev package using sudo apt-get install libdouble-conversion-dev but failed with the following output:
Package libdouble-conversion-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'libdouble-conversion-dev' has no installation candidate
I have also tried running sudo apt-get update beforehand and got the same results, as well as installing from the debian file from https://packages.debian.org/buster/amd64/libdouble-conversion-dev/download but nothing seemed to have changed.
You can manually install a Debian package on a compatible Ubuntu host with sudo dpkg -i $name_of_package_file.
I have a .out file for a project I am working on and I would like it available to download with an apt-get command. I wanted the apt-get command to be like sudo apt-get install packageName. I am using elementary OS, which is built off of Ubuntu. I also have the project posted on github.
I think equivs is the easiest. You can install with:
sudo apt-get install equivs
With equivs-control command you can create a blank spec file and build your deb package with equivs-build command.
I'm used to tortoise SVN. But after switching to centos 7 it is very difficult to use it without GUI. Please Help me install RabbitVCS instead.
The below instructions worked for me in May 2019. YMMV.
Install EPEL Release
export http_proxy=http://{proxyhost}:{port}
wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
Install Pre-requisites
sudo yum install meld pysvn python-dulwich python-simplejson
Fetch RabbitVCS packages
export ftp_proxy=$http_proxy
wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/hmandevteam/CentOS_7/noarch/rabbitvcs-core-0.17.1-3.2.noarch.rpm
wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/hmandevteam/CentOS_7/noarch/rabbitvcs-cli-0.17.1-3.2.noarch.rpm
wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/hmandevteam/CentOS_7/noarch/python2-rabbitvcs-0.17.1-3.2.noarch.rpm
wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/hmandevteam/CentOS_7/noarch/rabbitvcs-nautilus-0.17.1-3.2.noarch.rpm
Install RabbitVCS packages
sudo yum install rabbitvcs-core-0.17.1-3.2.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install rabbitvcs-cli-0.17.1-3.2.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install python2-rabbitvcs-0.17.1-3.2.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install rabbitvcs-nautilus-0.17.1-3.2.noarch.rpm
Reboot
sudo reboot
Open File Manager and you can see RabbitVCS Menu
If the above rpm ftp locations become stale, goto http://rpm.pbone.net and search for the following packages with Centos 7 filter -
rabbitvcs-core
rabbitvcs-cli
python2-rabbitvcs
rabbitvcs-nautilus
You may find these packages at other locations too
NOTE: You may sometimes require these pre-requisite packages too pygtk, python-configobj, python-gobject, python-gtkspell, python-svn
I had same problem when working with centos7, ended up using thunar instead of nautilus. See stackexchange and github issue.
Update:
I have successfully build rabbitVCS following steps from the github.com and then copied the nautilus extension.
So I've been trying for two days to unsuccessfully install build-essential on a Mac OS X Sierra with brew and apt-get. Researching into the issue has given me some results but nothing that has yielded any results.
sudo apt-get update
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Being lazy I've also listed below the other packages I'm struggling to install and their respective errors below.
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential
E: Couldn't find package build-essential
E: Couldn't find package libfreetype6-dev
E: Couldn't find package automake
E: Couldn't find package postgresql-9.5
Theres been a couple of suggestions to edit the source list of apt-get but I can't seem to find it.
What on Earth are you doing? macOS doesn't use apt-get - at all. It doesn't come with a package manager.
There are independent package management tools, to my mind the best of them is homebrew from here. Some folks use MacPorts.
Before you can do any development in macOS, you need Xcode's command-line tools - see here.
If you want Postgresql, I suggest you go to the homebrew website above, copy the one-line install and paste it into Terminal. Once you have that set up, you can install Postgresql with:
brew install postgresql
If you want to search for package abcXYZnnn, just search for any part of that name:
brew search XYZ
If you want to do updates, and upgrades:
brew update && brew upgrade
If you want to remove a package:
brew rm PACKAGENAME
You can use Homebrew:
brew install gcc binutils bison
I try to install ruby and rails to start to learn ruby on rails.
I work on Windows. After many search and tries, I gave up and installed a fresh ubuntu 14 x64 in a VirtualBox.
I installed ruby with apt-get, but its files get spread all over the file system (/bin, /var...). So, I have to use always sudo and search all over the place when installing gems.
I would like, just like in windows, find a ruby tar.gz which I can decompress in a folder of mine, with all files at the same place, where I have the "control" over the files, and I can watch easily what it's hapenning while installing gems, rails, etc...
The problem : I cannot find any tar.gz (or similar archive) of ruby for linux which I simply can uncompress in a folder and work with it (I can manage the $path). The only one I can find is for Windows !
Thanks !
It sounds like what you want is Ruby's source code. Go to https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/ and look under "Compiling Ruby - Source Code". That's where you'll find the .tar.gz files you want. You'll need to compile and install it before you can actually use it. Installing normally copies files "all over the file system", but you can force it to install to a specific folder by passing the --prefix option to the ./configure script.
$ tar -xf ruby-2.2.1.tar.gz
$ cd ruby-2.2.1
$ ./configure --prefix=/my/ruby/dir
$ make && make install
You may need to install some dev packages in order to get it to compile, but any compilation errors should make it clear what you need.
These instructions are also described here.
Thank you Max for your response.
In case someone else tries to compile ruby on a fresh new ubuntu, this is what I had to do to build and use it with success :
Install missing dependencies :
get the latest "Stable Snapshot" from https://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/stable-snapshot.tar.gz and not the "Current stable"
sudo apt-get install libffi-dev
sudo apt-get install zlibc zlib1g zlib1g-dev
sudo apt-get install openssl
sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.8 [[[ first, find the latest version with : apt-cache search libssl | grep SSL ]]]
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev
Then :
Edit downloaded file tools/rbinstall.rb, goto line 714 and correct the typo :
change "rescue LoadErroe" to "rescue LoadError" (not corrected in date of 20 March 2015).
Run Max's instructions above
Don't move the ruby destination folder declared with "--prefix" (even if you try to correct the shells in ruby/bin)
Finally, for using rails :
sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev
sudo apt-get install nodejs ==> inorder to have a js runtime