Bug#324764: apt: Unable to install packages from experimental
Package: apt
Version: 0.6.40.1
Severity: normal
I was trying to install the GTK packages from experimental, and was
unable to. I probably made a stupid mistake; but since I usually have no
problem installing experimental packages, I prefer filling a bug-report
in case there really is an issue.
Let's take the example of the package libgtk2.0-bin:
$ apt-cache policy libgtk2.0-bin
libgtk2.0-bin:
Installed: 2.6.9-1
Candidate: 2.6.9-1
Version table:
2.8.0-1 0
1 ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org project/experimental/main/binary-i386/ Packages
*** 2.6.9-1 0
500 ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
So a new package is available in experimental, and apt-cache knows about
it. I also verified that the packages are indeed present on the ftp
server where they are expected to be. But still I am unable to install
the packages:
$ grep Archive /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_project_experimental_main_binary-i386_Release
Archive: experimental
$ apt-get install libgtk2.0-bin/experimental
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Release 'experimental' for 'libgtk2.0-bin' was not found
$ apt-get -t experimental install libgtk2.0-bin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
libgtk2.0-bin is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Thanks, and sorry if I messed somewhere.
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
# See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
# CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool.
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r2 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20001207)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
#deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian project/experimental/main/binary-i386/
#deb-src ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.2
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8@euro (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.1-6 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.0.1-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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