Re: gnome-apt worry

[Mitch Blevins <mblevin@debian.org>]

Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> Thanks for that funny reply.
> 
> Strangely, using the same sources.list as you, I still get :
> 
> # dpkg --print-avail libart2 
> Package `libart2' is not available.

That's odd.  I guess 'apt-get update' doesn't let dpkg know that these
are available until actually installed or update is run in dselect.
(just guessing...)
Can anybody confirm this behavior?

> However, `apt-get install gnome-apt' now appears to work!
> 
> # apt-get install gnome-apt
> Updating package status cache...done
> Checking system integrity...ok
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   gdk-imlib1 libglib1.1.13 libungif3g libzvt2 libgnorba27 zlib1g libjpeg62
>   libgtk1.1.13 imlib-base gnome-bin libgnome31 apt libesd0 liborbit0 libart2 
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   gdk-imlib1 libglib1.1.13 libungif3g libzvt2 libgnorba27 libjpeg62
>   libgtk1.1.13 imlib-base gnome-bin gnome-apt libgnome31 libesd0 liborbit0
>   libart2 
> 2 packages upgraded, 14 newly installed, 0 to remove and 314 not upgraded.
> Need to get 2343k of archives. After unpacking 4859k will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Glad it works.

-Mitch