On 20 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 10:24:54AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 19 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > > I also tried a specific upgrade to the new version of mozilla (1.0.0) > > > > which is listed in unstable but was told that my version (from testing) > > > > was the latest, which it isn't. > > > > > > Sounds like a buggy apt preferences file, assuming that that's what > > > you're using. > > > > I don't have such a file. I didn't have /etc/apt.conf either, but I > > copied it from /usr/share/doc/apt/examples. > > It should be /etc/apt/apt.conf rather than /etc/apt.conf. What's in > /etc/apt/sources.list? >
Sorry, typo; I had it as /etc/apt/apt.conf > > But something seems to be wrong with apt-get. I have no > > /var/cache/apt/available > > That shouldn't exist anyway: just archives, pkgcache.bin, and possibly > srcpkgcache.bin. > > > and /var/lib/dpkg/available has nothing in it. > > Run 'dselect update'. > Many thanks; that seems to have fixed it! Isn't it supposed to be run automatically by apt-get? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux GNU/Debian (Windows-free zone) For electronic books on the Assassins and on homeopathy, skeptical essays, and over 170 book reviews, go to: http://www.acampbell.org.uk/ Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. [Carl Sagan] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
