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

[Markus Schönhaber <debian-user@list-post.mks-mail.de>]

07.12.22, 16:00 +0100, Richard Owlett:

> Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> > Am 07.12.22 um 15:07 schrieb Richard Owlett:
> >
> > > 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]
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > Is this bug or operator error?
> >
> > If
> > apt update
> > helps, then it's the latter.
>
> Been using Debian since days of Squeeze and never had the problem ;/
> Your suggestion worked.

If your package cache is stale, the package manager might try to fetch 
package files which don't exist on the server (probably being replaced 
by newer versions) anymore. It does that since it doesn't know they're 
gone, because of the mismatch between the (stale) local cache and the 
(changed) situation on the server.
Then, refreshing the cache (apt update / apt-get update) fixes that.

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Regards
  mks