On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 04:29:56PM -0000, Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-13, <to...@tuxteam.de> <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > > > I thought that too, but according to the man page, apt-get update does > > that job, too (I was always wondering to find my apt-file database > > up to date and suspected some well-meaning cron job, but that seems > > to be the secret :-) > > apt-get update only updates the package lists from the repositories > configured in /etc/apt/sources.list. > > apt-file update fetches the latest file index for all packages. > > IOW, you should run apt-get update (packages) before apt-file update > (the files inside those packages).
Sigh. Kids, read the doco. From man apt-file (1)
update
This action that just calls apt update or apt-get update (depending
on whether a tty is available).
The only advantage using this over a regular apt update or apt-get
update directly is for the case where you have configured an apt-
file specific configuration (via the Dir::Etc::apt-file-main
configuration option). In that case, said configuration will be
included automatically.
You don't need apt-file update anymore. Apt update or apt-get update do
the trick. (Apt-file update won't hurt, though).
Cheers
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