Bug#513864: apt: false "Package is not available" message
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.20
Severity: normal
The following is my attempt to install liblzo2-2 on my laptop. I have
installed it on other i386 machines running Lenny without any problem.
When inspecting the files under /var/lib/apt/lists the package seems to have
the correct data.
# apt-get install liblzo2-2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package liblzo2-2 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package liblzo2-2 has no installation candidate
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Install-Recommends "False";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::Acquire "";
APT::Acquire::Translation "environment";
APT::CDROM "";
APT::CDROM::NoMount "true";
APT::Authentication "";
APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";
APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
APT::Cache-Limit "50000000";
APT::Default-Release "stable";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
Dir::Log "var/log/apt";
Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log";
Acquire "";
Acquire::gpgv "";
Acquire::gpgv::Options "";
Acquire::gpgv::Options:: "--ignore-time-conflict";
Acquire::cdrom "";
Acquire::cdrom::mount "/cdrom";
Acquire::cdrom::/cdrom/ "";
Acquire::cdrom::/cdrom/::Mount "true";
Acquire::cdrom::/cdrom/::UMount "true";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Tools "";
DPkg::Tools::Options "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2";
DPkg::Post-Invoke "";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/bin/debsums ]; then /usr/bin/debsums --generate=nocheck -sp /var/cache/apt/archives; fi";
-- /etc/apt/preferences --
Package: liblzo2-2
Pin: release a=etch-backports
Pin-Priority: 999
Package: debhelper
Pin: release a=etch-backports
Pin-Priority: 999
Package: *
Pin: release a=etch
Pin-Priority: 700
Package: *
Pin: release a=lenny
Pin-Priority: 600
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
deb http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/debian/ lenny main
deb-src http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/debian/ lenny main
#deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
deb http://www.coker.com.au lenny selinux
#deb http://www.coker.com.au lenny misc
#deb http://mirror.hro.nl/debian-multimedia/ lenny main
#deb-src http://mirror.hro.nl/debian-multimedia/ lenny main
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2008.04.16+nmu1 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
ii aptitude 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 terminal-based package manager
ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.24 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
ii python-apt 0.7.7.1+nmu1 Python interface to libapt-pkg
-- no debconf information
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