Re: Help with broken Aptitude

From: Mark Sawle (mark_at_intellegit.com)
Date: 07/01/05

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    Bryan Jackson <bryan@the-jackson-family.co.uk> wrote:

    > 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.

    Do you have pinning configured in /etc/apt/preferences? I was experiencing
    the exact same problem but just tried deleting this file and everything now
    works again. 

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Mark Sawle                                         www.intellegit.com
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