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After adding the repo thopiekar/openrgb, I am getting an Error from Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg #apt #dpkg
After adding the repo thopiekar/openrgb, I am getting an Error from Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg
I'm running Pop_os 22.04. I recently tried to install openrgb, which required me to add the thopiekar/openrgb repository. immediately after adding this repository, I started getting the following e...
ubuntu-pro-client won't upgrade to 37.2ubuntu~24.04 #apt #packagemanagement #upgrade #dpkg
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Simon D.Purger des paquets déjà supprimés et ayant laissés des fichiers derrières eux.
https://grimoire.d12s.fr/2025/late_purge_of_removed_packages_on_debian.html
Late purge of removed packages on debian
Purger des paquets déjà supprimés et ayant laissés des fichiers derrières eux. # dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/ {print $2}' | sudo xargs dpkg -P (1) (2) 1 This lists the packages, filter those which line starts with « rc » and purge them, one by one as they are discovered. 2 Extracted from : https …
sedje@attilakinali @nixCraft Actually you should be fine, but only if you apt-mark manual those libs that you needed for your custom packages.
It's good hygiene to do this often. You can reinstall the missing libs if needed. And if you can't, you're sitting on a time bomb anyway.
P.S. apt-find-foreign for even more clean systems after release upgrade.
JdeBP1.
There may be equivalents to "pkg which" in some of the other package managers.
2.
"pw useradd" is not a straight exchange for shadow-utils useradd.
The very annoying gotcha (which means that one cannot just write a pw() shell function that strips the command name) is that they do not agree on whether the options come before or after the username argument.
Patrick 
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apt-get for .debs published via GitHub or direct download 📦
https://github.com/wimpysworld/deb-get
#1ospd #opensource #apt #aptget #deb #debian #dpkg #hacktoberfest #install #linux #packagemanager #ppa #ubuntu #upgrade
apt-get for .debs published via GitHub or direct download 📦
https://github.com/wimpysworld/deb-get
#1ospd #opensource #apt #aptget #deb #debian #dpkg #hacktoberfest #install #linux #packagemanager #ppa #ubuntu #upgrade
