Mark Healey wrote:
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 20:10:26 -0600, Kent West wrote:Did you "apt-get update" first? If not, you need to.Thanks. I could swear that wasn't in the man page.
enjae[westk]:/home/westk> man apt-get . . . DESCRIPTIONapt-get is the command-line tool for handling packages, and may be con-
. . .update update is used to resynchronize the package index files from
. . .updated packages is available. *An update should always be per- formed before an upgrade or dist-upgrade.* Please be aware that (Emphasis added.) But of course, this is on a sid box; it may not be in the stable version of the man page. And even so, it's quite easy to miss.
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