Re: Kali, Redux
On Thursday 05 November 2015 10:13:34 The Wanderer wrote:
> 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.
Did the job! Called it a "downgrade."
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