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I am wondering what sudo apt-get update does? What does it update?

How do I make apt-get ignore some dependencies? For example, I wanted to install mailx so I can use it to send email from cron scripts/report-generating tools.

Possible Duplicate: updates in amazon-ec2 ubuntu 10.04 server When I log into an Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS server, I see the message: 42 packages can be updated. 18 updates are security updates.

I used ubuntu linux before, and I installed debian OS on my labtop using DVDs that I burned. But when I’m trying to use apt-get to install software, the system always asks me to insert disk to proc

My boot partition is on a SSD, so it doesn’t have room for more than about 8 installed kernel versions, and eventually some kernel update will fail to install because my boot partition is full of old

Is there a way to install packages store on your HD with apt-get, like apt-get install ./package.deb? If not, how to handle the dependencies in a very very easy way?

I’m getting an invalid signature error when I try to apt-get update: Ign:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease Hit:2 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release Hit:4

Is there any apt-get-like program for use with Cygwin? I already tried cyg-apt but when I try I get this error: cyg-apt: downloading: http://cygwin.mirrors.pair.com/setup-2.bz2 cyg-apt…

You should be safe to remove aptitude and reinstall, as that won’t affect the other apt utilities. So: apt-get remove aptitude followed by apt-get install aptitude, or if that still fails try apt-get purge aptitude followed by apt-get install aptitude.

I faced the same issue regarding apt-get: command not found here are the steps how I resolved it on ubuntu xenial. Search the appropriate version of apt from here (apt_1.4_amd64.deb for ubuntu xenial)