Re: cups: inconsistent package names in source

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

On Tue 14 Jul 2020 at 16:49:24 -0400, James Weigle wrote:

> Hi there!
> 
> I’m trying to install cups on Debian 10 with apt-get, but getting
> “Failed to fetch ... 404 Not Found” errors.
> 
> It turns out apt-get is looking for packages at the following URLs (note
> deb10u2):
> 
> http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/cups/cups-daemon_2.2.10-6+deb10u2_amd64.deb
> http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/cups/cups-ipp-utils_2.2.10-6+deb10u2_amd64.deb
> http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/cups/cups-core-drivers_2.2.10-6+deb10u2_amd64.deb
> http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/cups/cups-client_2.2.10-6+deb10u2_amd64.deb
> http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/cups/cups_2.2.10-6+deb10u2_amd64.deb
> 
> But I found in the directory on deb.debian.org that all of these exist
> with “deb10u3”, instead of “deb10u2”.
> 
> How can I fix this / what’s to be done about it?

Hello James,

My sources.list has

  deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free

Have you executed 'apt update' before doing 'apt install cups'?

Cheers,

Brian.