He fixed it reinstalling the files that appeared there. So you might want to try something like this: for package in $(apt-get upgrade 2>&1 |\ grep “warning: files list file for package ‘” |\ grep -Po “[^’\n ]+'” | grep -Po “[^’]+”); do apt-get install –reinstall “$package”; done Copy-paste friendly in one line: for package … Read more
OK, I found it. apt-cache policy <package name> will show the version details. It also shows which version is currently installed and which versions are available to install. For example, apt-cache policy hylafax+
I also posted this question on the puppet users group and this was a response that I got back. If you add ensure latest it will check the source file against the currently installed package and install the new one if it is latest. I’m still not sure how you would roll back to an … Read more
I don’t thinks so, in Ubuntu md5 checksums are only stored for certain files. For any given package the list of files that have checksums can be found in /var/lib/dpkg/info/<package>.md5sums e.g /var/lib/dpkg/info/openssh-server.md5sums These generally don’t contain a complete list of the files that have been installed by a package e.g. openssh-server.md5sums bb5096cf79a43b479a179c770eae86d8 usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server 42da5b1c2de18ec8ef4f20079a601f28 usr/sbin/sshd … Read more
You can print the control file and some other information with dpkg -I package.deb, or use dpkg -e package.deb to extract only the control information files. Also, you can do a dry run to see what dpkg would do with –dry-run: dpkg –dry-run -i package.deb
Use mk-build-deps which is part of devscripts.
You need to specify the frontend as `noninteractive’ and it will save your current settings. dpkg-reconfigure will take the current system settings as gospel, so simply change your timezone the way you would normally and run it with the non-interactive flag e.g. for me to change to “Europe/Dublin” where I am: # echo “Europe/Dublin” > … Read more
I got the error message to go away by putting the following in my provisioning script, prior to any apt-get calls: export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive This makes debconf use a frontend that expects no interactive input at all, preventing it from even trying to access stdin.
The apt history is in /var/log/apt/history.log as said in a comment above. That said, this will not list packages that were installed manually, using dpkg or GUIs such as gdebi. To see all the packages that went through dpkg, you can look at /var/log/dpkg.log.
Note: in the following commands, a command beginning with ‘root#’ means it needs to be run as root. To find which files were installed by a package, use dpkg -L: $ dpkg -L $package apt-file can tell you which files will be installed by a package before installing it: root# apt-get install apt-file root# apt-file … Read more