Bug#25069: marked as done (apt: lack of error messages)
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From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Subject: apt: lack of error messages
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Package: apt
Version: 0.1.3
I wanted to install libwww-perl.
root@box:~joey>apt-get -f install libwww-perl
Updating package status cache...done
Checking system integrity...ok
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
This was quite confusing. It seemed to just ignore my request. libwww-perl
isn't installed at all.
I figured out the probkem when I went into dselect and selected libwww-perl:
libwww-perl depends on libmime-base64-perl
libmime-base64-perl does not appear to be available
libwww-perl recommends libmd5-perl
libmd5-perl does not appear to be available
I think apt should generate some sort of an error message here.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0
Kernel Version: Linux kite 2.0.35 #1 Tue Jul 21 21:25:05 PDT 1998 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.0.7t-1 The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files)
ii libc6 2.0.7t-1 The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files)
ii libstdc++2.8 2.90.29-0.6 The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)
--- Begin /etc/apt/sources.list (modified conffile)
deb file:/var/mirror/debian unstable main non-free non-us contrib
deb file:/home/joey/debian local/
deb file:/home/joey/debian public/
--- End /etc/apt/sources.list
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