Bug#243732: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#243732: apt-get claims no new package installed, even after new was installed)
> From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
> To: root <wtautz@cs.uwaterloo.ca>, 243732-done@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Bug#243732: apt-get claims no new package installed, even after new was installed
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> On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 12:56:44PM -0400, root wrote:
>
> > apt-get install systemimager-doc
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > Suggested packages:
> > systemimager-server
> > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> > systemimager-doc
> > 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 421kB of archives.
> > After unpacking 864kB of additional disk space will be used.
> > Get:1 ftp://debian30.math sarge/main systemimager-doc 3.0.1-11 [421kB]
> > Fetched 421kB in 0s (1609kB/s)
> > Selecting previously deselected package systemimager-doc.
> > (Reading database ... 47417 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Unpacking systemimager-doc (from .../systemimager-doc_3.0.1-11_all.deb) ...
> > Setting up systemimager-doc (3.0.1-11) ...
>
> This worked fine.
>
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > systemimager-doc is already the newest version.
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
>
> This is apt-get being invoked a second time, trying to install the same
> package which was already installed above. This seems like a problem with
> your script.
Yes, this was indeed the case, my script was messed up. Sorry about the noise.
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