Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 Severity: important 'No packages will be installed,upgraded, or removed."
There's about a dozen lines.. but not one line says that libncurses-dev has been installed or has already been installed.. apt-get install libncurses-dev successful mentions that the package is already insatlled and quits. #432017 bug may be related and is already dated to 3 years.. not sure if its related.. -- Package-specific info: aptitude 0.4.11.11 compiled at Dec 5 2008 09:06:14 Compiler: g++ 4.3.2 Compiled against: apt version 4.6.0 NCurses version 5.6 libsigc++ version: 2.0.18 Ept support enabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20081213 cwidget version: 0.5.12 Apt version: 4.6.0 linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff9eceb000) libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 (0x00007faa76c2c000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007faa769e1000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007faa767dc000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007faa76509000) libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0x00007faa76290000) libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0x00007faa75f26000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007faa75d0f000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007faa75af3000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007faa757e7000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007faa75564000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007faa7534d000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007faa74ffa000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007faa74df7000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007faa74bf3000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007faa76eed000) Terminal: xterm $DISPLAY is set. `which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude linkage: -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.6 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/3 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.20.2+lenny2 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.7-18lenny4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcwidget3 0.5.12-4 high-level terminal interface libr ii libept0 0.5.22 High-level library for managing De ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libxapian15 1.0.7-4 Search engine library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [apti 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 English manual for aptitude, a ter pn libparse-debianchange <none> (no description available) Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn debtags <none> (no description available) ii tasksel 2.78 Tool for selecting tasks for insta -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org