On 2015-11-05 at 09:59, David Baron wrote: > On Thursday 05 November 2015 09:47:12 The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2015-11-05 at 09:41, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> >>> On Thursday 05 November 2015 14:26:07 David Baron wrote: >>> >>>> Attempt to apt-get --reinstall install base-files will produce >>>> error "cannot be downloaded." In Synaptic, the Debian symbol >>>> does not appear with the package. Maybe it is only on stable? >>> >>> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=base-files >> >> Perhaps more usefully: >> >> What does 'apt-cache policy base-files' say on your machine? Exact >> output, please; don't just give part of the response, >> copy-and-paste the entire thing, the way I did in my previous mail. > > ~$ apt-cache policy base-files > base-files: > Installed: 1:2.0 > Candidate: 1:2.0 > Version table: > *** 1:2.0 0 > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > 9.5 0 > 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages > 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages That sheds some light on things. In your earlier sources.list, the lines for the Kali repos were commented out. That means that any package versions which were pulled only from those repos will show as being available only locally, with no repo source for re-download. I suspect that when the Kali repos were enabled, something resulted in your upgrading base-files, and since the Kali repos had a version number with an epoch (the '1:' at the beginning of the version number) their version trumped the one from the official repos. _IF_ you want to revert base-files to the official Debian version, abandoning the Kali variant, you should be able to do it with the following command: apt-get install base-files=9.5 Note that if you do that, you probably won't be able to get back to the current state, unless either A: you have the appropriate .deb file cached (e.g. in /var/cache/apt/archives) or B: you un-comment the Kali repos in sources.list and apt-get update again. However, since you presumably (based on your having started this thread in the first place) don't want the Kali packages anyway, you probably won't consider this a bad thing. -- 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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