Tag Archives: apt-get

Ubuntu Aptitude Giving Me Attitude

March 4, 2008 – 3:36 pm

The Ubuntu command line tool to install software aptitude wants to install a bunch of additional packages that aren’t required according to apt-get.
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WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!

October 5, 2007 – 3:51 pm

Today, when I tried to <code>aptitude install</code> a package on Ubuntu the response was “WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!”
I received a similar warning when I tried to use Synaptic Package Manager.
I checked and made sure that the software was trying to install from the official repository.
I’m not really sure of the cause, or [...]

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