Re: aptitude problems
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On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:26:10 -0700
Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 09:26:32AM -0400, Charles
> was heard to say:
> > I'm running Debian testing --- in Synaptic I have a bunch of
> > packages which are in the "local or obsolete category". Some have
> > been locally installed...but most are those I had to re-install
>
> The local or obsolete category in both aptitude and synaptic
> consists of packages that are installed on your system but aren't
> available from any of the archives you have listed in
> /etc/apt/sources.list. Usually this is because they were removed
> from the archive after you installed them, but it could also come
> about if you removed a repository line from sources.list after
> installing a package.
Well that would make sense for some of the packages...but among
the list is linux-image-2.6.29-2-686 which I believe is the current
kernel on testing and the whole openoffice.org series ???
This is my sources list ( which seems awfully short). Is there
something missing for Debian testing ?
# Security Debian binary archive
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.debian-multimedia.org testing main contrib non-free
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
deb http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
Charles
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