Package: aptitude Version: 0.7.7-1 Followup-For: Bug #816385 Dear Maintainer,
I confirm the bug with different command arguments. This command works and gives no error: sudo aptitude update This command gives same error as reported before: sudo aptitude update -q E: The package cache is not available; unable to download and install packages. -- Florent -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm-256color $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.7.7 Compiler: g++ 5.3.1 20160224 Compiled against: apt version 5.0.0 NCurses version 6.0 libsigc++ version: 2.6.2 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20160213 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 5.0.0 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffd013d1000) libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007ff5d4b91000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007ff5d4961000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007ff5d4736000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007ff5d4530000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007ff5d4233000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007ff5d3f5c000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 (0x00007ff5d3d42000) libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 (0x00007ff5d3b29000) libboost_system.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.58.0 (0x00007ff5d3924000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007ff5d3520000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007ff5d3303000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007ff5d2f87000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007ff5d2c82000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007ff5d2a6c000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007ff5d26c7000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007ff5d24c4000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007ff5d22c0000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007ff5d20a8000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007ff5d1e8d000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007ff5d1c7d000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007ff5d1a59000) liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007ff5d1847000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007ff5d163e000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007ff5d1439000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000056441e15f000) -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (400, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (110, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.3-6.dmz.2-liquorix-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.7.7-1 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.2.3 ii libboost-filesystem1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1 ii libboost-iostreams1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1 ii libboost-system1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1 ii libc6 2.21-9 ii libcwidget3v5 0.5.17-4+b1 ii libgcc1 1:5.3.1-10 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20160213-1 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.6.2-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.11.0-2 ii libstdc++6 5.3.1-10 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20160213-1 ii libxapian22v5 1.2.22-3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc <none> ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-8 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn apt-xapian-index <none> pn debtags <none> ii tasksel 3.34 -- no debconf information