Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >I do not see such a line in Squeeze or Sid. What version of apt do > >you have installed? > > it's difficult for me to understand this mess; > I am on Squeeze. apt version is > 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 That looks normal. > deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free > deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free > deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib non-free > deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib non-free Those are normal. > deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main contrib non-free Should be fine. > deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free Better to use a mirror. Take a look at the amount of bandwidth used by the main site. Wow! http://www.debian-multimedia.org/statistics.php Therefore to be kind there I strongly recommend using a mirror. The list of mirror sites is available here: http://www.debian-multimedia.org/debian-m.php > deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian squeeze contrib > deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free > deb http://deb.playonlinux.com/ squeeze main I know nothing of the quality of those repositories. Some will undoubtedly be high quality than others. > I removed /etc/cron.daily/apt, and did "aptitude reinstall apt" > After that: > 1/ the cron file is not installed, although it is listed in "dpkg -L apt" Right. You removed it. It is a conffile. Therefore the system respects your changes to that file. Including removing it. The system views removing a conffile as an intended change from the admin and preserves that change. I know you didn't think about it that way but that is the way it works. To avoid that you can set the confmiss option so that it will install files that have been removed. aptitude -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confmiss reinstall apt I always set that option in my apt.conf file so that it is the default. Bob
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