Tar, tarball, gzip. A kind of tape archive, a tar file is a collection of files archived in a single ‘tarball’ file and compressing it with gzip to save disk space results in a tar.gz compressed file. Simple, no? GNUzip is also used in HTTP compression GNU Gzip, or gzip, is a file format and a software application used for[…]
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Unmet dependencies. Unable to install curl on Ubuntu server
What to do when you find the error ‘The following packages have unmet dependencies. Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.’ regarding a package install attempt on your Ubuntu server, let’s see an interesting simple solution. Unmet dependencies. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation Last night the cron daemon of one server send me[…]
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