Help with broken Aptitude

From: Bryan Jackson (bryan_at_the-jackson-family.co.uk)
Date: 06/30/05

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    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 ?

    Many thanks in advance. 

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