[ale] Debian apt help

[Kenneth Ratliff]

If you run apt-cache search ksh

does it list ksh as an available package?


On Mar 20, 2009, at 5:59 PM, <dmcnash at charter.net> wrote:

>
> ---- Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
>> dmcnash at charter.net wrote:
>>> Somehow I have fouled up my apt setup on Debian etch.
>>>
>>> I believe the last thing I did (weeks ago) was add the Debian  
>>> Sarge repository to sources.list then loaded a specific version of  
>>> git.  Later I was notified of a git update and I updated that.   
>>> Since then I can load packages I know exist.
>>
>> It might help if you posted the contents of your sources.list (and
>> anything in sources.list.d/) and the output of 'apt-get update'.
>>
>> -- 
>
> This might help
>
> suzy:/etc/apache2# ls -al /etc/apt/sources.list.d
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 26  2007 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 20 14:19 ..
>
> suzy:/etc/apache2#
>
> suzy:/etc/apache2#cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> #
> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r2 _Etch_ - Official i386 CD  
> Binary-1 20080102-13:35]/ etch contrib main
>
> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r2 _Etch_ - Official i386 CD  
> Binary-1 20080102-13:35]/ etch contrib main
>
> # deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> # deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main  
> contrib non-free
> # deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
>
> # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work
> # deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non- 
> free
> # deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main  
> contrib non-free
>
> deb http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
>
> # deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib
>
> # deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ sarge main
>
> # deb http://www.openembedded.org/dl/ packages/
>
> # deb http://scratchbox.org/debian stable main
>
>
> suzy:/etc/apache2#apt-get update
> Get:1 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [197B]
> Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release
> Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
> Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
> Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/non-free Packages/ 
> DiffIndex
> Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources/DiffIndex
> Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
> Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/non-free Sources/DiffIndex
> Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages
> Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages
> Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/non-free Packages
> Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources
> Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Sources
> Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/non-free Sources
> Get:2 http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu etch Release.gpg [386B]
> Hit http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu etch Release
> Ign http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
> Ign http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu etch/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
> Ign http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu etch/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
> Ign http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu etch/main Sources/DiffIndex
> Ign http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu etch/non-free Sources/DiffIndex
> Ign http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu etch/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
> Hit http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu etch/main Packages
> Hit http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu etch/non-free Packages
> Hit http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu etch/contrib Packages
> Hit http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu etch/main Sources
> Hit http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu etch/non-free Sources
> Hit http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu etch/contrib Sources
> Fetched 2B in 5s (0B/s)
> Reading package lists...
> suzy:/etc/apache2#
>
> --
> doug mcnash
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