Re: acroread packages obsoleted
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:52:10 -0500
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On 2010-03-27 15:12, T o n g wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The last time I did aptitude update, I found my acroread packages
> > (from debian-multimedia) are now obsolete, which contain,
> >
> > acroread, acroread-data, acroread-escript and acroread-plugins
> >
> > $ apt-cache policy acroread
> > acroread:
> > Installed: 9.1.0-0.4
> > Candidate: 9.1.0-0.4
> > Version table:
> > *** 9.1.0-0.4 0
> > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> >
> > How can I have acroread now?
> >
>
> 9.1.0-0.4 is pretty frickin old. Are you running Lenny?
>
> Have you gone to http://www.debian-multimedia.org to see if there's
> any news?
>
> BTW, the d-m.o unstable branch still lists acroread.
>
> $ apt-cache policy acroread
> acroread:
> Installed: 9.3.1-0.0
> Candidate: 9.3.1-0.0
> Version table:
> *** 9.3.1-0.0 0
> 500 http://www.debian-multimedia.org unstable/non-free
> Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
multimedia does indeed have 9.3
however it also seems to be having problems:
W: Failed to fetch http://www.debian-multimedia.org/dists/sid/Release
Unable to find expected entry or/binary-amd64/Packages in Meta-index
file (malformed Release file?)
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.
Although that didn't stop me from apt-getting acroread.
If only evince handled forms correctly...
Brian
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