On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 11:10 +0100, Bryan Jackson wrote: > Hello everyone. > > 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. > > 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. > > > The same happens using apt-get. > > 3. When using the gui in aptitude, when I search for a package I can > see the package but in the version colums I see <none> <none>. But if I > double click the package with the mouse I can see a version number in > the section "Versions/" and if I double click that version number it > will then appear in the version colums. This causes problems when a > package needs to install dependencies because the dependencies do not > have a version number until until I do the doulble click, select version > process. > > > My sources.list > > deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free > deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib > > > Does anybody have any advice on how to fix this ?
have you (tried to) update aptitude itself? -- Michael Bane Atmospheric Physics Group University of Manchester -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
