David Z Maze wrote:
"Yildiz, Murat" <murat.yildiz@atosorigin.com> writes:and run apt-setup and let read all 8 cd's but it seems it doesn't write available and status files again.The canonical way to do this is to run 'apt-get update', hit 'u' in aptitude, or select "update" from dselect's main menu. What problem are you really having?
'apt-get update' won't update /var/lib/dpkg/available. As far as I know only 'dselect update' does. Since random programs such as grep-available rely on /var/lib/dpkg/available being kept up to date, it is generally a good idea to always use 'dselect update' instead of 'apt-get update'. Why the two aren't equivalent is beyond me...