I want to install luke-dash-jr's BIP148 bitcoin PPA which can be found .  I've already added the unofficial Bitcoin PPA to my sources.list; that PPA can be found .   Both PPAs define a bitcoin package. How do I install just Luke's for the time being?   I realize I can just remove the unofficial Bitcoin PPA from sources.list but was wondering if there's a different solution.
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Let us say I have added a PPA that has X package that I want but it also has Y package that I do not want to use or receive updates from. How can I, from the same PPA, receive updates for a specific package but deny updates from the same PPA for other packages.  A step by step example would be good since this has happened to me in several PPAs that have a particular package I want but also add a whole bunch of others that I do not yet want to update.
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I installed nginx a while ago using the ubuntu PPA repository.  Now I want to compile nginx from source so I can compile in and use the geo-ip module.  I know how to compile the new nginx from source.  How can I remove the nginx binary which was installed by the package?  I want to leave all the configs and logs and upstart stuff etc untouched.  I really just want to remove the old binary.  How can I do this?
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I would like to know which repository contains a specific package, in order to add the PPA link to the sources.list file.  The package can also be outside of the official repositories (multiverse or similar).  I dont want to find only the repository name but also the full qualified PPA link name to be added to the sources without any additional struggle.
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I keep seeing places refer to the "partner" repository as a place I can get software, how can I enable this repository? Please specify how to do this graphically and via command line.
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There are now errors when updating and I cannot install most software due to a corrupted  /etc/apt/sources.list   file. Is there a copy I can download to replace it?  The file would be for Ubuntu 12.04 (Final Beta) in the United States.
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I don't like installing apps outside my distro's official repositories. Linux's security relies a lot on having a repository meticulously curated and tested for library compatibility with current distro version, stability and security. Once I installed, from outside repos, a fancy terminal emulator that mimicked retro green/amber phosphor monitors. This app wreaked havoc in my system and I had to reinstall Ubuntu. I hesitate a lot about using PPAs as well. I only trust very few external sources, PPAs or packages downloaded from websites. But now Snap and  seems to be all the rage in Ubuntu-specialized sites.  Is it safe to install Snap apps or Flatpak apps? Are there official repos for such? How is stability taken cared of with this non-apt stuff?
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Is there a way to cherry pick packages from a ppa repository you add? That is, to exclude some from updating while including others?  For example, I want just the chromium-browser package from  but not the others. So I don't want my sudo apt-get upgrade to have that ppa's other (besides chromium-browser) packages install over my existing ones, just that one.   I realize this is a license to shoot myself in the foot if I misread dependencies and exclude ones that are needed to ones that I included, but I know for a fact in this case that the other packages are not dependencies for that one.  Is this at all possible? Maybe there is some whitelist/blacklist file or something?
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I have a 64-bit version of Ubuntu 13.10.  I want to run a 32-bit version of a program.  However I see ia32-libs is not included in 13.10.  Is there a replacement package for this or what?
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I accidentally removed my /etc/apt/sources.list file. Is it hosted by Canonical somewhere so I can re-add it to the system? It's a bit of an emergency, so I hope someone can provide a quick answer.
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Let's assume I have a working application written in C, C++ or Python. I want to create a Launchpad PPA so others can easily install it from a package. Please give step by step instructions for doing this from beginning to end. (Or provide a link that does the same ;)   Does the programming language matter? (Could it be a bash script?) Do I need to add anything to my build? Where should the build install itself to? How do I define dependencies? How do I use dependencies? How do I create a .deb? What do I need to do before uploading to Launchpad?
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Most of the "Software" I install on my server needs to be the latest release (Java, Tomcat, MySQL-Cluster). So I never have the luck, that there are pre-built Debian packages (in the distribution) available. Therefore all the software is downloaded from the project-webpage and built from source.  Now my question is, what is the correct way to install them on my Debian system?   My main problem is, when installing them directly from the source, they are not included in the package management (with aptitude). Checkinstall seems to not really be suggested to be used and equiv also has drawbacks. Is the only correct way to handle this by building my own packages with dh_make and dpkg-buildpackage?  What are you doing if you always need the latest version?
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The server version of Ubuntu does not have the  command. How can I add a  (PPA) to the server without this command?
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I am trying to turn a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 into an X2go server. I have followed the instructions here:   I have taken these steps:   su Add the line below to /etc/apt/sources.list  deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main universe  add-apt-repository ppa:x2go/stable   I get this message:  cannot add ppa: ppa:x2go/stable please check that the ppa name or format is correct
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As launchpad does not support binary uploads, I want to make .deb packages and host them in My own Github website.    How to do it? When done, how to install packages from it?
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Should one use the PPA or manually install the .debs from ?  Is there any difference between the two? How long does it take for the ppa to upgrade to the latest version?
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I would like to run SoulseekQT. However unfortunately one of the dependencies is libmng1, which is no more included in Trusty. sudo apt-get install libmng.so.1 or libmng1 or libmng1:i386 in Trusty (14.04) no more available. Do you have any idea how to solve this conflict? I mean is it really sure that libmng1 is excluded? Could I use libmng2 somehow instead? If not, could I somehow rebuild libmng1 for Trusty? Or do I have to downgrade back to Saucy (13.10)?
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I'm following  to install git on my laptop. When I do:  $ sudo apt-get install git-core  This is what my terinal shows:  Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree         Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:      libasprintf0c2:i386   libcroco3:i386   libgettextpo0:i386   libgomp1:i386   libunistring0:i386 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed:   git git-man liberror-perl Suggested packages:   git-daemon-run   git-daemon-sysvinit   git-doc git-el   git-arch git-cvs   git-svn   git-email   git-gui   gitk gitweb The following NEW packages will be installed:   git git-core git-man liberror-perl   0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.  Need to get 6,825 kB of archives. After this operation, 15.3 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y  WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!    liberror-perl git-man git git-core Install these packages without verification [y/N]?       E: Some packages could not be authenticated lucas@lucas-Inspiron-N5050:~$ sudo apt-get install git-core Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:   libasprintf0c2:i386   libcroco3:i386   libgettextpo0:i386   libgomp1:i386   libunistring0:i386 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed:   git git-man liberror-perl Suggested packages:   git-daemon-run git-daemon-sysvinit   git-doc git-el git-arch git-cvs git-svn   git-email git-gui gitk gitweb The following NEW packages will be installed:   git git-core   git-man liberror-perl  0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.  Need to get 6,825 kB of archives. After this operation, 15.3 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!   liberror-perl git-man git git-core Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y Err httpq://py.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/quantal/main liberror-perl all 0.17-1    Something wicked happened resolving 'py.archive.ubuntu.com:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname) Err httpq://py.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main git-man all 1:1.7.10.4-1ubuntu1    Something wicked happened resolving 'py.archive.ubuntu.com:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname) Err httpq://py.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main git amd64 1:1.7.10.4-1ubuntu1    Something wicked happened resolving 'py.archive.ubuntu.com:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname) Err httpq://py.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main git-core all 1:1.7.10.4-1ubuntu1    Something wicked happened resolving 'py.archive.ubuntu.com:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname)  Failed to fetch httpq://py.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libe/liberror-perl/liberrorperl_0.17-1_all.deb    Something wicked happened resolving 'py.archive.ubuntu.com:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname)  Failed to fetch httpq://py.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gi/git-man_1.7.10.4-1ubuntu1_all.deb    Something wicked happened resolving 'py.archive.ubuntu.com:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname)  Failed to fetch httpq://py.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/git/git_1.7.10.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb    Something wicked happened resolving 'py.archive.ubuntu.com:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname)  Failed to fetch http://py.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/git/git-core_1.7.10.4-1ubuntu1_all.deb   Something wicked happened resolving 'py.archive.ubuntu.com:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname) E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?   How could I install git on Ubuntu 12.10? I can't even do it from the Ubuntu Software Center.  Thanks in advance!