Re: Apt still not working
Curiouser and curiouser - the files
http.us.debian.org_debian_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages
http.us.debian.org_debian_stable_non-free_binary-i386_Packages
in /var/state/apt/lists are identical (and contain what non-free should
contain). I can delete the files and run apt-get update, and the same
wrong information comes back.
I'm beginning to think the unthinkable... could http.us.debian.org be
*wrong*?
Stuart.
On Sat, 8 May 1999 sballard@netreach.net wrote:
> After some poking around in /var/lib/dpkg/available, etc, I have been able
> to narrow down the problem to the following: apt is only registering the
> availability of contrib and non-free, but not main. All the entries in
> "available" have either Section: contrib/xxx or Section: non-free/xxx.
>
> The procedure I went through during install is as follows (maybe I missed
> some step that should have been obvious...)
>
> Boot from first CD, go through install procedure, etc.
> Select tasks.
> Go into dselect in the install procedure.
> Choose multi-cd as the method.
> Select the paths.
> Update list of packages.
> Skip the select page, and go straight to install.
> Answer all the packages questions.
> Do the configure and remove steps, just in case.
> Quit dselect.
> Use the system (it works fine at this point - all the packages are there)
> do apt-get update - appears to work fine
> do apt-get install (anything in main) "no installation candidate"
> do apt-get install (anything in contrib/non-free) [usually] "unmet
> dependencies"
>
> Going into dselect and changing the method to "apt acquisition" makes no
> difference. Changing the sources.list lines to say unstable instead of
> stable also makes no difference.
>
> Here are the exact lines from sources.list on one of the computers:
>
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US
>
> Thank you in advance for any help,
> Stuart.
>
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