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Am 11.03.2011 22:56, schrieb Rogério Brito:
> Package: apt-show-versions
> Version: 0.17
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi.
> 
> On my system, apt-show-versions started complaining with the message:
> 
>     Error: No information about packages! (Maybe no deb entries?)
> 
> Of course, I do have deb entries in my system. Reading the source code, I
> saw that there was this snippet of code:
> 
> ,----
> |     @files = map { $list_dir . $_} grep /Packages$/, readdir(DIR);
> `----
> 
> right there in the initialization of the cache. Since my system only has
> gzipped files as shown by "ls /var/lib/apt/lists/*Packages*",
> apt-show-versions goes on to say that it found no informations about the
> packages, but the files are there, only gzipped (that is, ending with
> Packages.gz extension, instead of only Packages).
> 
> If you need any further information, please let me know.

Can you show me the contents of your sources.list? In my lists directory
are only *Packages files and no *Packages.gz files. Where did you get
these from?

Christoph
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