Re: Synaptic on Debian 11.3 fails to install "kate"

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

Bret Busby wrote:
> On 07/12/2022 22:07, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > I'm running Debian 11.3 with MATE desktop.
> > When I attempt to use Synaptic to install "kate" it responds:
> >
> > > W: Failed to fetch 
> > > http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pcre2/libpcre2-16-0_10.36-2_amd64.deb 
> > >
> > >   404  Not Found [IP: 199.232.98.132 80]
> > >
> > > W: Failed to fetch 
> > > http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/v/vlc/vlc-data_3.0.16-1_all.deb
> > >   404  Not Found [IP: 199.232.98.132 80]
> > >
> > > W: Failed to fetch 
> > > http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/v/vlc/libvlccore9_3.0.16-1_amd64.deb 
> > >
> > >   404  Not Found [IP: 199.232.98.132 80]
> > >
> > > W: Failed to fetch 
> > > http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/v/vlc/vlc-plugin-base_3.0.16-1_amd64.deb 
> > >
> > >   404  Not Found [IP: 199.232.98.132 80]
> > >
> > > W: Failed to fetch 
> > > http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/v/vlc/vlc-plugin-video-output_3.0.16-1_amd64.deb 
> > >
> > >   404  Not Found [IP: 199.232.98.132 80]
> > >
> > > W: Failed to fetch 
> > > http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/v/vlc/libvlc5_3.0.16-1_amd64.deb
> > >   404  Not Found [IP: 199.232.98.132 80]
> > >
> > > W: Failed to fetch 
> > > http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/http-parser/libhttp-parser2.9_2.9.4-4_amd64.deb 
> > >
> > >   404  Not Found [IP: 199.232.98.132 80]
> > >
> > > W: Failed to fetch 
> > > http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/v/vlc/libvlc-bin_3.0.16-1_amd64.deb 
> > >
> > >   404  Not Found [IP: 199.232.98.132 80]
> >
> > Is this bug or operator error?
> > TIA
> Have you tried apt install ?
>
> I recently installed a package using apt install,m that synaptic did not 
> find by searching.
>
> ..
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> (UTC+0800)
> ..............

Markus' suggestion of "apt update" got here first.
It worked.
Thanks