On Thu, 14 May 2015, Brian wrote:
Do we assume the problem laptop and laptop2 have the same versions of apt? 'dpkg -l apt' for that.
yes: 0.9.7.9+deb7u7 It's the 1st thing I checked when I found this difference of behaviuor. I may-be forgot to say that the problem occurs with apt-get as well as aptitude. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel