It appears as per apt, that libpoppler-dev depends on libpoppler46, which depends on libtiff4. libtiff4 cannot be installed on Ubuntu 14.04 (which already has libtiff5 in my case).  Can you suggest a solution?  Older related questions' answers suggested hacking a manual install of libtiff4 from Ubuntu 13 downloads that are not even available by now.
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I was trying to install Lightworks 11.5.1 (amd64) on Ubuntu 14.04(amd64) but there's a notice: Dependency is not satisfiable: libtiff4. Is there anyway to solve this dependency issue?  Thanks in advance.
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I want to install a package in Ubuntu 14.04, but every time I run the ./configure command it gives me this error:  E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: No such file or directory Extracting templates from packages: 35%E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: No such file or directory Extracting templates from packages: 70%E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: No such file or directory Extracting templates from packages: 100% dpkg: error: cannot scan updates directory `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/': No such file or directory E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
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PSPP is an open source alternative to SPSS. Because of licensing issues it isn't in official Ubuntu repositories.  I have found downloads available for Ubuntu 20.10 and 18.04 at  but I run 20.04 and don't want to upgrade.  Am I out of luck or is there a safe choice for me?  (I can follow directions but am not really adept at Linux yet - just switched over.)  Thx.
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I need these packages with the latest upstream version backported for ubuntu/natty   libccid_1.4.5-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb libpcsclite1_1.8.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb libpcsclite-dev_1.8.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb libusb-1.0-0_1.0.9-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb libusb-1.0-0-dev_1.0.9-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb opensc_0.12.2-1ubuntu1ppa1~natty1_amd64.deb pcscd_1.8.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb pcsc-tools_1.4.18-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb   I tried to build them from source with update but it failed. I am not an expert at packaging and there are so many tutorials and recipes out there.  Do you know a good and up to date tutorial for backporting Ubuntu packages?  How do I get packages from other releases without having to build them myself?
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In order to install tmux 2.1, I needed to install libtinfo5 version 6, I did this by downloading a .deb archive containing libtinfo5 and installing directly with command:  sudo dpkg -i libtinfo5_6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb   This satisfied tmux 2.1's dependency and tmux installed ok. Now I tried to install vnstat using  sudo apt-get install vnstat    apt-get error exited with the following  $ sudo apt-get install vnstat Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies:  libncurses5 : Depends: libtinfo5 (= 5.9+20150516-2ubuntu1) but 6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1 is to be installed  libncursesw5 : Depends: libtinfo5 (= 5.9+20150516-2ubuntu1) but 6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1 is to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).   My understanding has always been that Ubuntu's package management system was capable of installing and managing multiple versions of the same package, for situations exactly like this.  In other words apt/dpkg recognises   tmux needs libtinfo5 - version 6 to work vnstat needs libtinfo5 - version 5 to work   Then apt/dpkg say's ok, I'll install both versions. I can see how certain programs like a system binary, e.g. bash or ls can only be installed once as most invocations simply say bash -c "&lt;command&gt;" and not bashv.3.2 -c "&lt;command&gt;". So my question is can the package manager install and manage multiple dependencies?, or is this just not possible because, like in the bash example above, most programs make a call to the dependency by the dependencies name without specifying version. In which case the issue is beyond the control of the package manager (i.e. its more of a programming compilation/configuration/organisation issue) and the package manager gives up at that point?
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The problem is simple - I have a .deb package and I want to install it on my Arch Linux. Is this possible? If yes, how?
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Apt is seemingly unable to do anything useful for me, repeatedly giving messages of this form:  dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-server:  linux-server depends on linux-image-server (= 3.2.0.37.44); however:   Version of linux-image-server on system is 3.2.0.37.45.  linux-server depends on linux-headers-server (= 3.2.0.37.44); however:   Version of linux-headers-server on system is 3.2.0.37.45. dpkg: error processing linux-server (--configure):  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured   This is basically the same problem as  which got closed Duplicate to an answer that is totally useless for this situation.  None of the advice in  helps.    Explicitly:  sudo apt-get clean sudo apt-get autoclean sudo apt-get update   all have no not effect.  While  sudo apt-get -f install sudo dpkg --configure -a sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade sudo apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes dist-upgrade   all give some form of the error message above.
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Yeah, I did this, it was stupid.  I did not know it will pull its dependencies with it, I just wanted to install python 2 and 3 from scratch (because of this problem: ).  Now, I still can use my terminal, checked these answers:      However after running sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop I get these errors:  Setting up python-ldb (2:1.1.24-1ubuntu3) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/python-ldb.postinst: 6: /var/lib/dpkg/info/python-ldb.postinst: pycompile: not found dpkg: error processing package python-ldb (--configure):  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127 No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already                                                               Setting up python-tdb (1.3.8-2) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/python-tdb.postinst: 6: /var/lib/dpkg/info/python-tdb.postinst: pycompile: not found dpkg: error processing package python-tdb (--configure):  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127 No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already                                                               dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python-samba:  python-samba depends on python-crypto; however:   Package python-crypto is not configured yet.  python-samba depends on python-ldb (&gt;= 1.1.2~); however:   Package python-ldb is not configured yet.  python-samba depends on python-tdb; however:   Package python-tdb is not configured yet.  dpkg: error processing package python-samba (--configure):  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already                                                               Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu7) ...  Errors were encountered while processing:  mercurial-common  python-crypto  python-dnspython  python-ldb  python-tdb  python-samba E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)   What is the way to restore these dependencies (16.04 LTS)?
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I have Ubuntu 17.10. My kernel version is 4.14.21-041421-generic. I have downloaded HPLIP 3.17.11 run file from the website. Unfortunately I am unable to compile it. After running the .run file, it starts ./configure, which throws an error regarding net-snmp.  In particular, these are the last lines of configure:  checking for cups ppd install... no checking for foomatic-rip-hplip install... no checking for qt5... no checking for qt4... yes checking for qt3... no checking for policykit... no checking for host machine platform... x86_64 checking for CRYPTO_free in -lcrypto... no configure: error: cannot find net-snmp support (or --disable-network-build)   SNMP is installed:  snmp is already the newest version (5.7.3+dfsg-1.7ubuntu1).   and libsnmp-dev is also installed (version 5.7.3).
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Alright, so due to problems connecting to a wifi network on the ubuntu server distribution, i want to install the neccesary packages for a lamp, mail and ssh server on an ubuntu desktop 14.04 lte distribution(i am able to connect to the internet with the desktop version).  what should i install from the command line?  Thanks in advance!
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This question always bothers me! Last time for 4.9 I tried the commands mentioned in . The same trick doesn't work now:  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gcc-5.1 g++-5.1   results in...  E: Unable to locate package gcc-5.1 E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'gcc-5.1' E: Unable to locate package g++-5.1 E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'g++-5.1'   What is the correct command for directly installing the latest g++ in Ubuntu? Is there any magic command which works uniformly for all the updates of g++?  Update:  I found that the correct command to install it is:  sudo apt-get install g++-5   This works now! Though in the , the version is 5.1.
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so I've recently installed my first Ubuntu, to be precise, a daily build of 16.04, on my new laptop since the hardware was to new for 15.10. Now I'm in the process of setting it up and I want to install php5 and some extensions.  When I execute sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 I get the error message that there is no installation package available for php5 and libapache2.  The error message is in german, so I doubt that this would help, but anyways here it is. :-) E: For package »libapache2-mod-php5« existiert kein Installationskandidat.  Do I need to add a apt-get repository? Or what am I doing wrong?
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First of all, I am well aware of this question: .  Unfortunately none of the answers worked. I can find deb files from . There, I am surprised to see that the last version of Ghostscript for Ubuntu 14.04 is version 9.10. When I download version 9.15 for Ubuntu 15.04, and I run it (as root), I get the error:     Error: dependency is not satisfiable libgs9   I checked (apt-get install libgs9) and I have the latest libgs9 installed. Also,  seems to confirm that last is version 9.10 for 14.04.  Does this mean it is not possible to upgrade Ghostscript?
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I am trying to install pandas on Ubuntu 14.04. I seem to have a problem with dependencies, but I haven't been able to install them. I am trying to install pandas via pip as follows:  vroni@zargedu4:~$ pip install pandas   And this is the error message:  SystemError: Cannot compile 'Python.h'. Perhaps you need to install python-dev|python-devel.   If I try to install python-dev this happens:  vroni@zargedu4:~$ sudo apt-get install python-dev python-dev :Depends: libpython-dev (= 2.7.5-5ubuntu3) but it is not installable             Depends: python2.7-dev (&gt;= 2.7.5-1~) but it is not installable   It basically misses these dependencies. Trying to install them only leads me to new messages like this.   vroni@zargedu4:~$ sudo apt-get install libpython-dev libpython-dev : Depends: libpython2.7-dev (&gt;= 2.7.5-1~) but it is not installable   and so on.  vroni@zargedu4:~$ sudo apt-get install libpython2.7-dev libpython2.7-dev : Depends: libpython2.7-stdlib (= 2.7.6-8) but 2.7.6-8ubuntu0.2 should be installed                 Depends: libpython2.7 (= 2.7.6-8) but 2.7.6-8ubuntu0.2 should be installed                 Depends: libexpat1-dev but it is not installable   until I try..  vroni@zargedu4:~$ sudo apt-get install libpython2.7-stdlib=2.7.6-8ubuntu0.2   Then the answer is: it is already the newest version.  libpython2.7-stdlib is already the newest version.   I don't quite understand what's the problem here. I also tried:   sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install -f   and   sudo apt-get -f install   and afterwards tried to install pandas again. but nothing seems to work.
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Is there an IDE which can run on Ubuntu that supports C, C++ and Java? I installed , but it only supported Java. I installed the C/C++ package manually, but that package gives an error if I include iostream.   Is there any other IDE which can satisfy my needs? Or can I get NetBeans with all packages pre-installed in it?
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I upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 from 12.04 and every time I use apt-get install for any package it ends with a bunch of errors about processing some of my latex packages. Including a snippet below:  Sometimes, not accepting conffile updates in /etc/texmf/updmap.d causes updmap-sys to fail.  Please check for files with extension .dpkg-dist or .ucf-dist in this directory  dpkg: error processing package tex-common (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of lmodern: lmodern depends on tex-common (&gt;= 3); however: Package tex-common is not configured yet.   Reproduced by using sudo dpkg --configure -a and a total list of packages with this error is included here:  Errors were encountered while processing: tex-common texlive-publishers tex-gyre texlive-latex-extra-doc texlive-fonts-extra-doc texlive-lang-english texlive-luatex texlive-generic-recommended texlive-pstricks-doc texlive-fonts-recommended latex2html latex-xcolor texlive-pictures texlive-fonts-extra texlive-pictures-doc asymptote texlive-bibtex-extra texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-latex-recommended doxygen-latex texlive-pstricks tipa texlive-latex-base texlive-fonts-recommended-doc latex-beamer texlive-font-utils texlive-latex-base-doc texlive-latex-extra texlive-extra-utils texlive texlive-publishers-doc lmodern   Any ideas on how to fix this?   Edit 1: Adding the result of trying sudo apt-get install -f:  Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 32 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up tex-common (4.04) ... Ignoring /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf during generation of texmf.cnf, please  remove manually! Ignoring /etc/texmf/texmf.d/15Plain.cnf during generation of texmf.cnf, please remove manually! Ignoring /etc/texmf/texmf.d/80DVIPDFMx.cnf during generation of texmf.cnf, please remove manually!  Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. Running updmap-sys. This may take some time...  updmap-sys failed. Output has been stored in /tmp/updmap.DJoQcW7n
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I recently moved to Linux, and I am in love with the experience. Opinions apart, I am having problems when running sudo dpkg --configure -a  My computer stops processing the command here:  You may know Adobe Flash Player is no longer supported, and I believe that could be why the command is unable to load pepperflashplugin-nonfree. I have tried fixing the problem by checking older posts here, but none of them was able to fix this problem.