On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 10:40:22PM +0200, John Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 13:01:14 +0100
> Arthur B Olsen <maillists@teletech.fo> wrote:
>
> > Just installed debian 3.1 and i have a strange problem. I've had it once before, but it dissapeared by it self.
> > Or maby i fixed it without knowing what i was doing.
> >
> > A dpkg -l shows only a list of installed packages. But i can use apt-get install package, when i know what the package is called.
> > Then it shows up in dpkg -l.
> >
> > Does anyone know why this is so?
> >
> > arthur
> >
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> Hi Arthur,
>
> run 'dselect update' after each 'apt-get update/upgrade/install'
> to update dpkg's information.
Hi users of debian,
I found a new script that syncs dpkg and apt's 'available' database
(finally). It is called 'sync-available' from the 'grep-dctrl' package.
Cheers,
Kev
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