Re: apt-cache problem

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net>]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:43:21AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> I noticed a few days ago that 'apt-cache show' will only display
> information on installed packages.  Has anything changed? 'dpkg
> --print-avail' still displays information on packages which are not
> installed.  I am running sarge with apt 0.5.4.

To add a bit more information, when I try to use apt-cache, it just
returns a prompt if the package exists but is not installed.  If I try
on a non-existent package, I get an error message, as expected.

Bob