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List:       debian-user
Subject:    Re: Help with broken Aptitude
From:       michael <linux () networkingnewsletter ! org ! uk>
Date:       2005-06-30 18:54:44
Message-ID: 1120157684.15852.4.camel () localhost ! localdomain
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On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 11:10 +0100, Bryan Jackson wrote:
> Hello everyone.
> 
> I have a Debian Sarge box that was working fine until Sarge went stable.
>  Aptitude has started acting very strange,  in fact apt in general
> seems broken.  The symptoms are as follows.
> 
> 1.  I have had no upgrades when when I run "aptitude update, aptitude
> upgrade" since sarge went stable.
> 
> 2.  When trying to install a package from the command line using
> aptitude install <package> I get a "No installation cantidate" error.
> example:
> 
> violator:~# aptitude search apt-file
> p   apt-file                                   - APT package searching
> utility -- command-line interf
> 
> violator:~# aptitude install apt-file
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> No candidate version found for apt-file
> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
> 
> 
> The same happens using apt-get.
> 
> 3.  When using the gui in aptitude, when I search for a package I can
> see the package but in the version colums I see <none> <none>.  But if I
> double click the package with the mouse I can see a version number in
> the section "Versions/" and if I double click that version number it
> will then appear in the version colums.  This causes problems when a
> package needs to install dependencies because the dependencies do not
> have a version number until until I do the doulble click, select version
> process.
> 
> 
> My sources.list
> 
> deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free
> deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib
> 
> 
> Does anybody have any advice on how to fix this ?

have you (tried to) update aptitude itself?

-- 
Michael Bane
Atmospheric Physics Group
University of Manchester


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