On Sat, 19 May 2018 21:27:42 +0300 Abdullah Ramazanoğlu said: > On Sat, 19 May 2018 10:37:08 -0400 Matthew Dyer said:
>> root@matt-the-cat:/home/matthew# apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade >> Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security testing/updates InRelease >> Hit:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing InRelease >> Reading package lists... Done > > It seems to be the "apt-get update" part of output, which is curiously terse. > If update is not working, then upgrade will neither work, naturally. Just to > be sure that "update" output is not trimmed somehow, could you run the command > below and attach the generated "update.log" file here? > > # apt-get update 2>&1 | tee update.log > > It would be better if you also attach /etc/apt/sources.list While it is early yet to speculate, I would also check; * /etc/apt/sources.list : This file should be same as the one in MATE installation. * /etc/apt/preferences : This file should not exist. * /etc/apt/preferences.d/ : This directory should be empty. * /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ : This directory should be empty. * /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ : This directory should not have been tampered with. * /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99synaptic : This file either should not exist, or should be empty. I would have compared these files and directories to the ones in the MATE installation. Regards -- Abdullah Ramazanoğlu
