Bug#792713: apt-get download: "E: Handler silently failed"
Package: apt
Version: 1.1~exp8
Severity: minor
This error message is not very helpful:
$ apt-get download
E: Handler silently failed
It would be nice it APT told me what was actually wrong, for example:
E: Must specify at least one package to download
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64
Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii debian-archive-keyring 2014.3
ii gnupg 1.4.19-3
ii gnupg2 2.0.28-3
ii libapt-pkg4.15 1.1~exp8
ii libc6 2.19-19
ii libgcc1 1:5.1.1-14
ii libstdc++6 5.1.1-14
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Jakub Wilk
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