Re: apt doesn't upgrade packages
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 09:34:30PM -0400, Anthony Costa wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 06:10:27PM -0700, Aaron Tomb wrote:
> > I'm having a very strange problem. As of about a week ago, apt-get stopped
> > noticing new packages and upgrading them. It still downloads package lists, and
> > if I tell it a specific package version, as in:
> >
> > apt-get install mozilla-firefox=0.9.1-5
> >
> > it'll install the newer version. However, if I just say 'apt-get upgrade' (or
> > dist-upgrade, or dselect-upgrade), it says that there are no new packages. I'm
> > using apt 0.5.26, dpkg 1.10.23, and dselect 1.10.23. No one else I've talked to
> > is having this problem, so I think it's an issue of configuration, rather than
> > a bug in apt. But I've had no luck trying to fix it. I've changed my
> > sources.list several times, to try different mirrors, to no avail. Does anyone
> > have any idea what might be wrong?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Aaron
> >
> i'm having the exact same problem. i'm currently tracking unstable and
> testing, w/ unstable src. i've consolidated my sources.list to the
> bare minimum (testing main contrib + updates), all to no avail. ideas?
> >
Hi,
mozilla-firefox-0.9.1-5 hasn't entered testing yet. Run apt-cache policy to
view versions available in sources.list and installed and candidate version.
# apt-cache policy mozilla-firefox
mozilla-firefox:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 0.9.1-4.backports.org.1
Version Table:
0.9.1-5 0
500 http://ftp.se.debian.org unstable/main Packages
0.9.1-4.backports.org.1 0
600 http://www.backports.org stable/all Packages
0.8-12 0
500 http://ftp.se.debian.org testing/main Packages
For more information:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html
Regards,
Mikael Magnusson
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