On Thursday 09 January 2020 at 21:25:51, 'smee via Dng wrote: > > Does "aptitude why firmware-misc-nonfree" help? > > nothing other than itself listed after depends... > > "i firmware-linux-nonfree Depends firmware-misc-nonfree (= 20161130- > 3)"
No, that's not itself :) Thats' "firmware-LINUX-nonfree" :) > > How about "apt-cache policy firmware-misc-nonfree" > > firmware-misc-nonfree: > Installed: 20161130-3 > Candidate: 20161130-3 > Version table: > *** 20161130-3 100 > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Okay, so you certainly have the latest installed. > > or "aptitude reinstall firmware-misc-nonfree"? > > oddly aptitude says it can't find a source for the package that I have > installed. I assume aptitude uses /etc/apt/sources.list so it should > point to beowulf repo's by default. This confirms that you don't have "non-free" in your sources.list file: On Thursday 09 January 2020 at 21:24:51, Svante Signell via Dng wrote: > Did you add non-free to your sources.list? > deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main non-free Regards, Antony. -- People who use Microsoft software should be certified. Please reply to the list; please *don't* CC me. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
