Re: aptitude problems
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On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:03:03 +0200
Sjoerd Hardeman <sjoerd@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
> Charles schreef:
> > On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:26:10 -0700
> > Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> >> 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 ???
> Testing currently runs 2.6.26, so 2.6.29 is a local package (got it
> from sid?). I think you're also running a sid-version of
> openoffice.org. Reinstalling (aptitude reinstall openoffice.org)
> will fetch the current squeeze version for you.
Yup, you're absolutely right! I have purged OO and reinstalled
the testing version...the kernel I think I will leave as it's
causing no problems.
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Charles
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