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Commands tagged apt-get

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Terminal - Commands tagged apt-get - 9 results
apt-get --just-print upgrade
2010-02-18 11:19:05
User: noqqe
Functions: apt
Tags: apt apt-get list updates upgrade without
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List available upgrades from apt without upgrading the system
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aptitude search NAME
2009-11-10 11:23:18
User: CafeNinja
Tags: apt apt-get aptitude
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Search for available software on a debian package system (Ubuntu)

The legend in the first column:

i = installed

p = installable

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apt-cache stats
2009-09-03 19:29:17
User: 0disse0
Functions: apt
Tags: apt-get stats
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How to know the total number of packages available
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sudo apt-get -o Acquire::http::Dl-Limit=25 install <package>
2009-07-31 19:43:45
User: dunnix
Functions: install sudo
Tags: apt-get
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Cap apt-get download speed

apt-get is pretty aggressive when it downloads, potentially hogging the bandwidth of your network. The 25 is in KB, change this to your needs.

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dpkg -l 'linux-*' | sed '/^ii/!d;/'"$(uname -r | sed "s/\(.*\)-\([^0-9]\+\)/\1/")"'/d;s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* \([^ ]*\).*/\1/;/[0-9]/!d' | xargs sudo apt-get -y purge
2009-06-19 10:11:00
User: plasticdoc
Functions: sed sudo xargs
Tags: Linux sed apt-get xargs dpkg purge
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purge installed but unused linux headers, image, or modules

will purge:

only installed apps: /^ii/!d

avoiding current kernel stuff: /'"$(uname -r | sed "s/\(.*\)-\([^0-9]\+\)/\1/")"'/d

using app names: s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* \([^ ]*\).*/\1/

avoiding stuff without a version number: /[0-9]/!d

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sudo apt-get remove --purge `dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}' | grep gnome` && apt-get autoremove
2009-04-28 10:34:42
User: kelevra
Functions: awk grep sudo
Tags: awk apt-get dpkg
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Remove packages by pattern on debian and based systems

Useful for removes a package and its depends, for example to remove the gnome desktop environment, also configuration files will be removed, you should be carefully and sure that you want to do this.

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function nuke() { if [ $(whoami) != "root" ] ; then for x in $@; do sudo apt-get autoremove --purge $x; done; else for x in $@; do apt-get autoremove --purge $x; done; fi }
2009-03-25 23:21:21
User: ruinbox
Functions: sudo
Tags: sudo apt-get
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Remove apps with style: nuke it from orbit

You can't stand programs x, y, and z. Remove all trace of their existence by adding this function to your config. It will remove the cruft, the settings, and such and such. This function doesn't even give a damn about you trying to remove programs that don't exist: it'll just for loop to the next one on your hit list.

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function dpan () { PKG=`perl -e '$_=lc($ARGV[0]); s/::/-/g; print "lib$_-perl\n"' $1`; apt-get install $PKG; }
2009-03-12 15:39:38
User: dave0
Functions: install
Tags: Debian perl apt-get cpan
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Install the Debian-packaged version of a Perl module

Running 'cpan Module::Name' will install that module from CPAN. This is a simple way of using a similar command to install a packaged Perl module from a Debian archive using apt-get.

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y
2009-03-08 05:13:16
User: allensaa
Functions: sudo
Tags: Debian apt-get
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Run a complete update unattended on Debian based GNU/Linux distros.

For headless/text-based servers, or simply because update-manager was disabled (I don't use it) this command updates the list of current packages available and performs any upgrades as well on Debian based GNU/Linux distros such as gNewSense.

"dist-upgrade" was used rather than "upgrade" by itself as some packages--especially linux packages--are not updated with the "upgrade" option. I also added the additional "-y" switch to run the updates/upgrades unattended.

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