On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 10:33:34AM +0100, Bryan Jackson wrote: > Hello everyone. I have lurked on this group for a while but this is my > 1st post.
Hi > I have a Debian Sarge box that was working fine until Sarge went stable. > Aptitude has started acting very strange, in fact apt in general > seems broken. The symptoms are as follows. > > 1. I have had no upgrades when when I run "aptitude update, aptitude > upgrade" since sarge went stable. Always a good idea to 'aptitude update' before installing, upgrading - keeps everything in sync. > 2. When trying to install a package from the command line using > aptitude install <package> I get a "No installation cantidate" error. > example: > > violator:~# aptitude search apt-file > p apt-file - APT package searching > utility -- command-line interf > > violator:~# aptitude install apt-file > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree > Reading extended state information > Initializing package states... Done > Reading task descriptions... Done > No candidate version found for apt-file > No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. What's the output of 'apt-cache policy apt-file'? > My sources.list > > deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free No security updates for 'contrib' or 'non-free' 'deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main' is all that is required. > deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib looks ok -- Chris. ====== -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
