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Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....



On 06/19/2015 at 08:44 AM, Petter Adsen wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:25:37 +0100 Michael Fothergill
> <michael.fothergill@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> Do you have this package installed? What does "apt-cache policy
>>> linux-firmware-nonfree" say?
>>> 
>> 
>> ​It says unable to locate linux-firmware-nonfree
>> 
>> ie it's not installed I guess
> 
> That message means that apt-cache can't find that package at all. If
> you have recently added non-free to sources.list you will need to
> run "apt-get update". After doing that, it should be available to
> install via "apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree".

I noticed that the sources.list contents which were posted listed
'nonfree', with no hyphen.

Every other sources.list reference to non-free I've ever seen has
included the hyphen, and a quick test with dropping the hyphen on my own
system results in errors on 'apt-get update'.

I suspect that the omitted hyphen means his system is not actually
seeing non-free at all. I would suggest adding the hyphen and trying again.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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