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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 16:23:13 -0400


Although it looks like I'm replying to myself, I just haven't gotten
Matthias' reply yet, although I can see it on the website (and I did
subscribe, but probably to the digest).

Anyway, Matthias wrote:
> Once upon a time, Steve wrote :
> 
> > I did apt-get update, and it seemed to have gotten the new packages
> 
> Hmmm, "it seems"? Check closer as this may be where the problem is
> coming
> from.
> > but doing things like "apt-get install synaptic" didn't work (neither
> > did other known packages, like apt-get install lame
> > 
> > I just get:
> > root@canarsie:/var/cache/apt # apt-get install lame
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > E: Couldn't find package lame
> 
> Could you double check what "apt-get update" does? And eventually post
> the
> output if there are any errors or messages you don't understand.

OK, I did it again, and here's what I got:
root@canarsie:/tmp # apt-get update
Ign http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386 release
Hit http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/os pkglist
Hit http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/os release
Hit http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/updates pkglist
Hit http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/updates release
Get:1 http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/freshrpms pkglist [51.8kB]
Hit http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/freshrpms release
Hit http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/os srclist
Hit http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/updates srclist
Get:2 http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/freshrpms srclist [12.6kB]
Fetched 64.4kB in 2s (30.1kB/s)
Reading Package Lists... Done
root@canarsie:/tmp # apt-get install lame
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package lame

root@canarsie:/var/cache/apt # ls -ltr
total 148
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Sep 29 10:49 gensrclist
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Sep 29 10:49 genpkglist
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Sep 29 10:49 archives
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        49863 Oct  4 16:00 srcpkgcache.bin
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       158131 Oct  4 16:00 pkgcache.bin
root@canarsie:/var/cache/apt # date
Fri Oct  4 16:03:15 EDT 2002

So, it looks like it worked, and the files are updated..  very strange.  

Maybe something went wrong updating apt from my old version (as used
with rh7.2), and this one.  Lemme try totally uninstalling and
reinstalling it..

root@canarsie:/ # rpm -e apt synaptic
warning: /etc/apt/sources.list saved as /etc/apt/sources.list.rpmsave
root@canarsie:/ # ls -l /etc/apt
total 4
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1610 Oct  4 10:07
sources.list.rpmsave
root@canarsie:/ # rpm -ivh /tmp/apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr1.i386.rpm
warning: /tmp/apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key
ID e42d547b
Preparing...                ###########################################
[100%]
   1:apt                    ###########################################
[100%]
root@canarsie:/ # apt-get update
Ign http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386 release
Hit http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/os pkglist
Hit http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/os release
Hit http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/updates pkglist
Hit http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/updates release
Hit http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/freshrpms pkglist
Hit http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/freshrpms release
Hit http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/os srclist
Hit http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/updates srclist
Hit http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/freshrpms srclist
Reading Package Lists... Done
root@canarsie:/ # apt-get install synaptic
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package synaptic
root@canarsie:/ #

Still no go...

I'm stumped.

-SteveK



> 
> Matthias
> 


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