On 17 July 2013 04:53, Daniel Hartwig <mand...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 17 July 2013 07:40, Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org> wrote:
> > Public bug reported:
> >
> > Running "aptitude show fdflush" doesn't work, even though there's a
> > package "fdflush". I checked my spelling very carefully. "apt-cache
> > search fdflush" works fine. "aptitude show" works fine for other package
> > names I tried it with.
>
> Provide the full output of these commands:
>
> $ apt-cache policy fdflush
> $ apt-cache search fdflush
> $ aptitude show fdflush
>

$ apt-cache policy fdflush
fdflush:i386:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.0.1.3
  Version table:
     1.0.1.3 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/universe i386
Packages
$ apt-cache search fdflush
fdflush - Flush out-of-date disk buffers
$ aptitude show fdflush
E: Unable to locate package fdflush

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  aptitude show doesn't work for some existing packages

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