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clint - Wed, 2015/10/14 - 03:28

Hello,

 

I have a clean install with debian 8.2 when I run the update command I get a error can not execute binary file.

 

clint@debian8:~$ su root apt-get updates
Password:
/usr/bin/apt-get: /usr/bin/apt-get: cannot execute binary file
clint@debian8:~$

 

I'm relatively new with linux and this is my first debian install.

 

Regards,

 

Clint

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Tony Upson - Wed, 2015/10/14 - 04:35

believe it is the following syntax

 

apt-get update 

apt-get upgrade

 

 

- Tony

Network Engineer

Federal Gov't

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clint - Tue, 2015/11/03 - 07:36
Tony, Thanks for the reply that's what one would think. Turned out apt-get wasn't either installed or the rights weren't given to my user account. I had many other issues so I ended up installing a different variant. Clint
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Jeremy Davis - Sat, 2015/11/07 - 07:29
Were you using TurnKey Linux? Or a Debian system from somewhere else? If it was TurnKey then by default it only includes a root account (from which apt-get should work fine OOTB).

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