My question is about Linux in general but lets suppose my ubuntu isn’t working property, booting in tty or whatever. I have no internet connection but I have ubuntu live cd. Is it possible to reinstall the desktop environment from live cd?
I’m on a CentOS machine. I updated and installed some packages a few weeks back, but I don’t remember the name of every package or the names of every dependency. I used yum.
On a computer running “stable” Debian, when trying to install a package which is in the unstable list on the Debian web site using the aptitude install <package>/unstable command, I get output similar to this:
I’m attempting to install Intel’s OpenCL SDK but the DEB files are buggy conversions from RPM (see here for the curious). I need to edit the postinst script in the DEB they provide.
I have deleted some files around /var/lib/dpkg/, namely:
Whenever trying to install some programs from source, or specifically running apt update, I receive this message:
Okay, I understand how I may use apt-get {install|remove} mypackages and apt-get upgrade to install, upgrade, or remove binaries as well as their configuration data files and dependencies (actually, remove will only remove the binaries unless additional flags are provided).
I am using a minimal Debian system which does not have the top program installed. I tried to install top with sudo apt-get install top, but top is not a package name. It seems that top is a part of some other package. How can I find out which package I should install to get … Read more
In Gentoo there is the file /var/lib/portage/world that contains packages that I explicitly installed. By explicit I mean, packages that I choose, not including anything installed by default, or pulled in by the dependencies.
Is there a way, before starting an aptitude upgrade or apt-get upgrade, to set up something so that you can “easily” rollback your system to the “apt” state it was before the actual upgrade, if something goes wrong?