Re: got stuck in dpkg-available-cache

[Tim Connors <tconnors@astro.swin.edu.au>]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Bjoern Rueffer wrote:

> I tried the following
> dpkg --forget-old-unavail
> dpkg --clear-avail
>
> but it didn't have the result as hoped for.
>
> How do I clear this available-cache with the version numbers in it? I'm
> using sid if anyone thinks that matters.
>
> Thanks in advance

Try using 'apt-get update' along with the equivalent in dselect (I don't
use the latter, so don't remember how to do this). From the looks of it,
it is using an outdated locations file, so is trying to download old
version of programs which have since been upgraded, so no longer appear on
the server with that name.

Also, if you change the contents of sources.list without running apt-get
update (and the dselect equivalent - the databases aren't the
same) afterwards, then it will be using an inconsisent set of file
locations.

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