Hi, i am using the Debian testing some years. And sometime i am using the dpkg command to brief look of the packages. I observed that, the database of the available packages is not automatically updated, then i create simple weekly cron job to update the available database by the sync-available tool. But in a last days i see, that the simple "dpkg -l" command cannot find some packages, which are in debian: LANG=C dpkg --list jarwrapper No packages found matching jarwrapper. After some investigation, i see that the status database is outdated/incomplete, because after i did search in available too, then package was found: LANG=C dpkg-query --load-avail --list jarwrapper Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-========================-========================-================================================================ un jarwrapper <none> (no description available) Please, is here simple way to update the status database? regards -- Slavko http://slavino.sk
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