On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 18:01, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2018-05-31 15:55 +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote: > >> I am trying to install cmake on a buster system. When I try "apt >> install cmake" (or equivalently with apt-get), I am told the package >> doesn't exist. I have updated, checked and cleaned using apt-get >> several times. The database is somehow corrupt as I know that cmake >> exists: searching on Debian's website clearly shows it there for >> buster and looking at the actual deb site shows cmake there. > > Probably apt's cache is corrupt, I had seen something like this myself > some time ago. [...] >> Any suggestions on how to fix this? > > Delete /var/cache/apt/*.bin . Next time you run one of the apt tools as > root, they will recreate those files. This did the job! Thank you. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50 & org 9.1.13 on Debian buster/sid
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