Re: apt{-cache,-get,itude} show wrong version of package after update

["John Crawley (johnraff)" <john@bunsenlabs.org>]

On 2018-03-28 02:50, Jean-Baptiste Thomas wrote:
> After apt-get update, attempting to install ntp tries to
> download version 1:4.2.8p10+dfsg-3+deb9u1 and fails. It tries
> to download +deb9u1 because
>
>    $ aptitude show ntp
>    Package: ntp
>    Version: 1:4.2.8p10+dfsg-3+deb9u1
>    State: not installed
>    [...]
>
> and it fails because the version of the package in the Debian 9
> mirror listed in /etc/apt/sources.list is +deb9u2 :
>
> How is this possible ? I'm confused.

Try running:
sudo apt-get update # one more time, to be sure
# then
apt-cache policy ntp

and see what version it refers to.

--
John