Linux 101 : APT - troubleshooting installation of packages -
The package would no finish installing or would get installed with some missing elements.
To try to fix that, we could run the below command:
Also we could also try to fix specific package using the below "dpkg" command below:
In order to clean up our system and to remove program dependencies that no other program is relying in, we could simply use the following command:
We are all familiar with the "E: Unable to locate package" error message when trying to install a package.
Some of the way to fix it is to update our repository by running the below command:
We could also look for the package manually using the below command:
Also we could update our "/etc/apt/sources.list" which contains a list of repositories Linux consults to know where to download the packages from.
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