This error hinders me alot from taking actions like installing anything that requires the use of terminal.. E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? i have tried to fix the missings with its command..   Each time i try to install git, this is always the result Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done Package git is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source  E: Package 'git' has no installation candidate    Please help me, i use Ubuntu 19.04
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Recently I have installed an older version of Ubuntu on my old machine. Whenever I try to install any software, I get an error saying it couldn't be found:  $ sudo apt-get install vlc Reading package lists... Done                Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done     E: Couldn't find package vlc
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When running:  sudo apt-get install quickly   To install quickly I get this output:  Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package quickly   Why the error and how can I install it then?
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I am unable to connect to the package repository server using MiKTeX due to a proxy error. How would I go about installing a package from a local repository? I am trying to install the package beamer. Where do I actually find the file to download?
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I usually prefer to fix a Linux system than to reinstall from scratch. My computers have seen many distribution upgrades and a list of PPAs or third-party repositories. APT usually makes sure that everything works in the end. However, the fact that the package manager thinks that all required packages are 'installed' does not guarantee that all the files are present on the file system.  Such a such situation may occur if you have to work-around dependency problems with dpkg --force-*. One could also reproduce such a situation by deleting a file from /usr as root.  Is there a simple way to verify whether all files belonging to an installed package are present?  If a such a problem package is found, aptitude reinstall fixes the problem.
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I'm trying to figure out a way to get a list of the packages that are no longer available in the repositories that I have enabled. This workstation has been through quite a few versions of Ubuntu and has had many 3rd party repositories added and removed. I'd like to get a list of software that I have from these removed repositories, so I can clean it up or add back the appropriate repositories.
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I have mistakenly removed the default package APT from my system .  When I run command locate apt-get, I get below output:  /home/jeet/apt-get /home/jeet/Desktop/apt/apt-0.7.25.3ubuntu9.13/cmdline/apt-get.cc /home/jeet/Desktop/apt/apt-0.7.25.3ubuntu9.13/doc/apt-get.8.xml /home/jeet/Desktop/apt/apt-0.7.25.3ubuntu9.13/doc/de/apt-get.de.8 /home/jeet/Desktop/apt/apt-0.7.25.3ubuntu9.13/doc/fr/apt-get.fr.8 /home/jeet/Desktop/apt/apt-0.7.25.3ubuntu9.13/doc/ja/apt-get.ja.8 /home/jeet/Downloads/apt-get /home/jeet/Downloads/apt-get.8.gz /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/apt-get /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/slapt-get   If I run ls | grep apt-get, then I won't get any output.  Can anybody please advice how to recover apt package or install it from start?
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I get this error when trying to use apt-get:  E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/) is another process using it?     How can I fix this?
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When trying to upgrade using the terminal, my upgrade stops. This is the line showing in the terminal:  The required dependency 'apt(&gt;=1.0.10.2 ubuntu2)' is not installed.   my problem is that I don't know the command to install this dependency. Using other commands, it says apt is up to date. Solutions?
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After installing Ubuntu 12.04 (clean install) I fetch a bunch of program via synaptic (installed specially), all programs worked except Gimp 2.8. So I tried purging Gimp, install again (no luck). Checked broken packages and reinstalled them. When using the Software center I get this MSG:  Failed to fetch http://is.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openexr/libopenexr6_1.6.1-4.1_amd64.deb Size mismatch   Tried also this:  sudo apt-get purge gimp* sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gimp   And get this MSG:  Failed to fetch http://is.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openexr/libopenexr6_1.6.1-4.1_amd64.deb  Size mismatch E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?   I am wondering if the Icelandic Archive has an outdated version or something?   would really like to install Gimp 2.8 but Gimp 2.6 is OK to.   I am also wondering if I am doing something wrong?
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When I try to install libtiff on my 64-bit Ubuntu, I get the following error:  sudo apt-get install libtiff Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done Package libtiff is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source  E: Package 'libtiff' has no installation candidate ubuntu@ip-10-119-97-123:/mnt$ libtiff-memcached  libtiff-memcached: command not found
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Whenever I try to install anything with the Ubuntu Software Center, the following error appears.     Failed to download repository information      Check your Internet connection.      E:Unable to parse package file /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_multiverse_i18n_Index (1)
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I ran into a problem today when I decided to use npm update -g in a nodejs app directory. This was a bad decision, because it caused me to run into a .   The solution is to reinstall nodejs and npm. Unfortunately when I go to install npm using sudo apt-get install npm it doesn't work.  The full error in the terminal is here:  Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that  some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies:  npm : Depends: nodejs but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-abbrev (&gt;= 1.0.4) but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-ansi but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-archy but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-block-stream but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-fstream (&gt;= 0.1.22) but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-fstream-ignore but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-github-url-from-git but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-glob (&gt;= 3.1.21) but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-graceful-fs (&gt;= 2.0.0) but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-inherits but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-ini (&gt;= 1.1.0) but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-lockfile but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-lru-cache (&gt;= 2.3.0) but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-minimatch (&gt;= 0.2.11) but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-mkdirp (&gt;= 0.3.3) but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-gyp (&gt;= 0.10.9) but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-nopt (&gt;= 2.1.1) but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-npmlog but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-once but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-osenv but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-read but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-read-package-json (&gt;= 1.1.0) but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-request (&gt;= 2.25.0) but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-retry but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-rimraf (&gt;= 2.2.2) but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-semver (&gt;= 2.1.0) but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-sha but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-slide but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-tar (&gt;= 0.1.18) but it is not going to be installed    Depends: node-which but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.   What can I do to get npm properly installed and running again?  Thanks.
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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'm trying to update from ubuntu 12.10 lately but I keep getting the "Failed to fetch" error.  W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal-security/Release  Unable to find expected entry 'independent/binary-amd64/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)  W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal/Release  Unable to find expected entry 'independent/source/Sources' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)  W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal-updates/Release  Unable to find expected entry 'independent/binary-amd64/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)  W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal-backports/Release  Unable to find expected entry 'independent/binary-amd64/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)  E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.   I changed the server and deleted the source lists from /var/lib/apt/lists/ like some answers say but still. This is really annoying.
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At some moment   apt-get install   autocomplete was broken  It was very useful to me to see packages name with Tab press  How to repair this autocomplete?
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I'm trying to install tor on my Kali Linux 2016.1 (kali-rolling). When I type apt-get install tor in Terminal, this error appears:  Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done Package tor is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source  E: Package 'tor' has no installation candidate   How can I fix this and install tor?  UPD:  I tried this:  - I added deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org wheezy main to sources file, but it didn't help at all, so I deleted this string and now it's in a default condition
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I have the message:   Error Broken count &gt;0 Check if you are using third party repositories. If so disable them, since they are a common source of problems. Furthermore run the following command in a Terminal: apt-get install -f Details: The following packages have unmet dependencies: firefox-globalmenu: Depends: firefox (= 19.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.2) but 19.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 is installed   Any suggestions?