Where Do I Find The File That Installs Applications - Lazarus

Trying to install traceroute on Ubuntu 14.04.2. I get:
apt-get install traceroute
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package traceroute 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 'traceroute' has no installation candidate

i decided to post this as a new thread seeing how it's a recurring problem for me, and i still haven't found good recursive software to download dependancies from a website when some of the packages aren't in the repos or my linux doesn't have the correct repos in the sources file.

i used dpkg -i and it did not work. i know i can install this with recursion software, however the trend is heading toward arch with linux, so distro agnostic linuxes and parent distros which install tarballs and compile without many bugs automatically are what all linux developers should be supporting first and foremost.

this brings me to my question, there are a lot of applications and dependancies not included in repositories, and not included in your current aptitude (or whatever automated dependancy program you prefer to use to download packages) unless you modify the repo source file, so sources.list or whatever for debian. why do forum answers simply refer newbies and half newbies to using commands with bugs, instead of considering the repository doesn't have the neccessary packages, or that the user needs to add the websites to the sources in their distro before using automated package grabber commands/software? it's quite possible the person who posted the package did not submit it to the linux repo, or has not submitted it yet. some devs are too lazy to put any of their software in any repo.

there are websites like github which seem to be attempting to correct this problem, but it still begs the question, what is good recursion software or a recursive command which works and downloads the dependancies when not in the repositories with the least amount of bugs? theroetically it would be easier to use gui software which has innate recursion and copy and paste the web address of the binary, rather than modify the source file every time you want to download a package with missing dependances.

here was an example of my output downloading a current wheezy kernel in order to make a custom debian image

root@Leck1p2l:/home/leck# gdebi /home/leck/Downloads/kernel-package_12.036+nmu3_all.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Building data structures... Done
Building data structures... Done
This package is uninstallable
Dependency is not satisfiable: po-debconf

Ubuntu 14.10 runs great on my laptop but I think I have dependency problems because EVERY time I install or remove software I get the following error message. However everything seems to run just fine...

"Package operation failed"
"The installation or removal of a software package failed."

...and details shows a massive list of gobbledygook with a lot of:

"insserv: Starting vpnagentd_init depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!"

I can post the whole message but I'll wait for feedback first.

hello
I have ubuntu server in my windows to use virtual Box. also I have apache in my download directory in windows and its name folder is "apache" .now, when I type "sudo apt-get install" I see error.( E:unable to locate package) please help me.
thanks.

Using package manager to remove configuration files while uninstalling a software is easy but how to find and remove configuration files of software that you install from external sources? suppose i compiled from source of installed an external package, how to find and remove those configuration files that these programs created?

Hello All

I am still working out the basics of Linux.
I have a Centos 7 install. I cannot get this RPM to install. It installs fine under Centos 6.

What am I doing wrong? I really need a GUI Find and Replace program!
--skip broken does not work either.

Thanks in advance
Scott

[root@server ~]# yum localinstall regexxer-0.9-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm --skip broken
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Examining regexxer-0.9-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: regexxer-0.9-1.el5.rf.x86_64
Marking regexxer-0.9-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm to be installed
Skipping: broken, filename does not end in .rpm.
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package regexxer.x86_64 0:0.9-1.el5.rf will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libatkmm-1.6.so.1()(64bit) for package: regexxer-0.9-1.el5.rf.x86_64
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.keystealth.org
* epel: mirror.hmc.edu
* extras: mirror.keystealth.org
* rpmforge: mirror.hmc.edu
* updates: mirror.keystealth.org
--> Processing Dependency: libcairomm-1.0.so.1()(64bit) for package: regexxer-0.9-1.el5.rf.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libgdkmm-2.4.so.1()(64bit) for package: regexxer-0.9-1.el5.rf.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libglade-2.0.so.0()(64bit) for package: regexxer-0.9-1.el5.rf.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libglademm-2.4.so.1()(64bit) for package: regexxer-0.9-1.el5.rf.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libgtkmm-2.4.so.1()(64bit) for package: regexxer-0.9-1.el5.rf.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libpangomm-1.4.so.1()(64bit) for package: regexxer-0.9-1.el5.rf.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libpcre.so.0()(64bit) for package: regexxer-0.9-1.el5.rf.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package atkmm.x86_64 0:2.22.7-3.el7 will be installed
---> Package cairomm.x86_64 0:1.10.0-8.el7 will be installed
---> Package gtkmm24.x86_64 0:2.24.2-8.el7 will be installed
---> Package libglade2.x86_64 0:2.6.4-11.el7 will be installed
---> Package pangomm.x86_64 0:2.34.0-3.el7 will be installed
---> Package regexxer.x86_64 0:0.9-1.el5.rf will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libglademm-2.4.so.1()(64bit) for package: regexxer-0.9-1.el5.rf.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libpcre.so.0()(64bit) for package: regexxer-0.9-1.el5.rf.x86_64

Packages skipped because of dependency problems:
atkmm-2.22.7-3.el7.x86_64 from base
cairomm-1.10.0-8.el7.x86_64 from base
gtkmm24-2.24.2-8.el7.x86_64 from base
libglade2-2.6.4-11.el7.x86_64 from base
pangomm-2.34.0-3.el7.x86_64 from base
regexxer-0.9-1.el5.rf.x86_64 from /regexxer-0.9-1.el5.rf.x86_64

Hello everybody

I am running Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca with the Cinnamon Desktop.

I have experiences with the ubuntu derivatives and ffmpeg and avconv are always avavilable the repos, this time both aren't available

Here are the commands I typed:

apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade

After the packages were upgraded. I ran these commands. Below are there outputs.

Quote:
apt-get install ffmpeg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package ffmpeg 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 'ffmpeg' has no installation candidate

apt-get install avconv
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package avconv
This nevered happened to me before with linux mint in prior versions.

Any ideas?

I'm new to Linux but have a WD MyCloud 2TB NAS. I want to run Logitech Media Server (LMS) on it and have found instructions on Logitech Forums on how to do it. Unfortunately it does not work for me. I've downloaded the deb file and used dpkg -i on that file. This gives a load of lines like this
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libpam-winbind:armhf' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
and in the end LS does not appear to be running. Would anyone know what these lines are telling me and any suggestions as to how to fix the problem.
I can get no response from the Logitech forums so any help here would be greatly appreciated.
PS:The version of Linux seems to be
Linux WDMyCloud 3.2.26 #1 SMP Tue Jun 17 15:53:22 PDT 2014 wd-2.2-rel armv7l

One week user of Ubuntu v15 and I have tried to install the file Python-3.5.0a1.tar gz but without success. The following points have arisen.
1). The file was downloaded. OK
2). The file was extracted to the Desktop as Python-3.5.0a1
3). Using sudu apt-get install Python-3.5.0a1, the message 'file not found'. Why not!
4). Looking into the extracted files it seems that this is a source package and therefore cannot be installed as is?
5). Finally, using the bash command 'find' it could not find the above file either.
Can someone kindly sort this out for me.
Thanks.

I am about to attempt my first software installation - upgrading my LibreOffice package to the latest version. Since all my software came preloaded with my computer I have not been involved in this exercise previously.

I realize how irritating newbies can be, by asking questions that have already been answered in other threads, so I have read the post offering basic software installation instructions, together with anything else that seemed relevant. Then I got the installation instructions from the LibreOffice website. When I compared these with the LQ version it was difficult to find much in common, so what do I do? I am inclined to follow the LibreOffice instructions. Apart from anything else, they are simpler. However, I notice reference to a 'desktop-integration' folder in the latter. I do not appear to have such a folder in my present system. Can I assume that it will be created as part of the installation of the updated package?

I am happy to experiment but one thing that terrifies me is the instruction to purge my existing version of LibreOffice before installing the latest one. I do not question the logic of so doing, it being pointed out that otherwise I will finish up with both new and old versions. The worry is that, if I remove the old version and am then unable to successfully install the new one, I will have well and truly 'burned my boats behind me'- and I have only just got the spell checker to work in the old version!

I have so far managed to download the .tar.gz file and extract the installation folder and associated files from it. I realise that the latter could well be lost when purging the existing LibreOffice installation but that does not matter. I have slightly renamed the .tar.gz file so that the purge command will not find it. I can then quickly re-extract the installation folder, with its .deb files, if I need to, the extraction process yielding exactly the same files whatever the .tar.gz file name.

I am just about ready to jump but I would like a handle on the 'desktop-integration' file, or folder, before I do.