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Discourse on a raspberry pi

I'm trying to install on my raspberry pi using the installation instruction for ubuntu: Install Discourse on Ubuntu. It went quite well until bundle install --deployment and now I'm having a hard ...
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Apt-get fails because of libqtcore and libqtdbus4

On a fresh-today Raspbian build I did an apt-get update followed by an apt-get ugrade. I got the following error message: sal@raspberrypi:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done ...
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How to install pre-compiled Ruby 2.0 on Raspbian?

I am usually recommend to people who want to install Ruby to use something like RVM or rbenv (my preference). However, I'm in the process of installing Ruby from source (using rbenv) and it has taken ...
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Raspberry Pi apt-get update/upgrade on Raspbian hangs?

Whenever I try to update my pi using sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade it will often hang at some point during the installation. It's been different ones each time, but the last was ...
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What is the difference between rpi-update and sudo-apt upgrade?

I'm wondering what the difference is between running the git-hub obtained program rpi-update and using sudo apt-get update followed by sudo apt-get upgrade. I've checked around and cannot find the ...
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Raspberry Pi using up my bandwidth?

Whenever I use something like apt-get git clone on my Pi (using Wifi connection via dongle), the internet for all other devices connected to the router drops considerably, to the point where some ...
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How does apt-get work?

Normally, when I want to download something on my pi (for instance this vnc app, I use apt-get <insert app>? But, sometimes an app is not in the apt-get area (not sure what proper name is) and ...
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dconf-gsettings-backend:armhf' contains empty filename

Question How to fix error code #2 when updating and upgrading on the raspbian OS? Background I get this error when I'm trying to update and upgrade: dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: ...
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Segmentation fault

I'm getting an error every time I try to run commands on my RPi: pi@rpi ~ $ apt-get install wkhtmltopdf Segmentation fault Even when I try running other commands: pi@rpi ~ $ uptime -bash: ...
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Recovering from failed aptitude update

About 10 days ago I was updating my Raspberry Pi server via aptitude - it seemed to be downloading some new boot extensions to Grub and so on. In any case the update failed and the Raspberry Pi ...
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csync2 won't install

I've tried to install csync2 using apt-get, but I am getting the error below. I was wondering if anyone knew how to solve this or failing that, could you tell me if this problem could be because the ...
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Unable to use apt-get: dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error … is missing final newline

I am unable to use the apt-get command to install any packages on my pi. I started trying to install python-pip using sudo apt-get install python-pip which results in the error dpkg: ...
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apt-get not installing software. Repositories are not updating

I am trying to use apt-get to install lynx. However I am having issued with the repositories. this is what my sources.list looks like: #deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy main ...
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Does Raspbian mirror has a problem updating or is something wrong with bzip2 apt-get method

I get this error while running sudo apt-get update Hit http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org wheezy InRelease Hit http://archive.raspberrypi.org wheezy InRelease Hit http://archive.raspberrypi.org ...
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TiLP 1.16 on Debian Weezy

I've been trying for close to about 8 hours now getting TiLP (Texas Intruments Linking Program I believe). Anyways, I was only able to install TiLP 1.12 using aptitude (sudo apt-get install tilp2). ...
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What to do when apt-get -f install fails?

sudo apt-get update hangs and suggests running sudo apt-get -f install, but that fails on a duplicate declaration. How can I fix this? The following NEW packages will be installed: libfont-afm-perl ...
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Having trouble updating - how to fix problem with MergeList?

pi@raspberrypi:/$ sudo apt-get update Hit http://archive.raspberrypi.org wheezy InRelease Hit http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org wheezy InRelease Hit http://archive.raspberrypi.org wheezy/main armhf ...
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“packages have been kept back”

I ran an update and an upgrade and I get the following message: The following packages have been kept back: alsa-base scratch What do I do to get these upgrade?
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Automatic updating recommended?

Is it recommended to configure something to automatically keep an RPi updated? And if so, which method (cron-apt or something else)?
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How do I install lighttpd (lighty) on Debian “squeeze”?

How do I install lighttpd on my Raspberry Pi? I tried running sudo apt-get install lighttpd, which works fine on a regular Debian 'squeeze' installation, but on a Raspberry Pi I get the following ...
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Why do I always have to run apt-get update twice? Or do I?

Every time I run apt-get update, I get the following message (the exact duplicate package is different depending on the last entry in sources.list): W: Duplicate sources.list entry ...