apt-cache search not showing expected result I tried to do apt-cache search skype But it shows me this as a result: libopuso – opus codec runtime library So what does that mean? Asked By: chukwuma ogbonna || Source The result tells me Skype for desktop is not a deb file. Per the Skype site, the …
Cannot grep apt-cache show output I have a list of packages and I want to know which packages are not available in the ubuntu repositories. I type this command but it returns nothing : $ apt-cache show vim TotO perl 2>&1 | grep "Unable to locate package" $ It occurs in both Ubuntu 16.04 LTS …
How to install specific docker version from apt-cache policy docker-ce candidate list Command “Docker-ce” list all candidates root@ubuntu:/home/master# apt-cache policy docker-ce docker-ce: Installed: (none) Candidate: 5:19.03.6~3-0~ubuntu-xenial Version table: 5:18.09.9~3-0~ubuntu-bionic 500 500 https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu bionic/stable amd64 Packages Then when issue the command using the string value from the candidate list fails root@ubuntu:/home/master# sudo apt-get install docker-ce=18.03.1~ce~3-0~ubuntu-xenial docker-ce-cli=18.03.1~ce~3-0~ubuntu-xenial …
Is it possible to clean the APT cache from the command line? I ask because Ubuntu Tweak’s Janitor is frozen due to the sheer number of packages in the cache that accumulated during the upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04. Asked By: Josh Pinto || Source sudo apt-get clean will do what you want, though it …
var/cache/apt/archives occupying huge space I am in the process of cleaning up my system. And I see a lot of space occupied by this folder /var/cache/apt/archives (1.5GB). Is it absolutely necessary to keep all these archives? Asked By: Vivek || Source You don’t need to keep them around if you don’t want them. Executing a …
