[nmglug] apt-get non-free

Andres Paglayan andres at paglayan.com
Thu Apr 21 21:27:36 PDT 2005


andres at andres:~$ sudo apt-get update
Password:
Get:1 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages [3523kB]
Get:2 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Release [82B]
Get:3 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages [72.8kB]
Get:4 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/contrib Release [85B]
Get:5 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages [66.1kB]
Get:6 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/non-free Release [86B]
Get:7 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Sources [1394kB]
Get:8 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Release [84B]
Get:9 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/contrib Sources [32.1kB]
Get:10 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/contrib Release [87B]
Get:11 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/non-free Sources [26.4kB]
Get:12 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/non-free Release [88B]
Fetched 5116kB in 37s (136kB/s)
Reading Package Lists... Done

after this aptitude only shows main.

any clue?


pi wrote:

> Andres Paglayan wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>> simple question,
>> this is my source.list
>>
>> #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main
>> #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Sarge_ - Official Snapshot i386
>> Binary-2 (20050122)]/ unstable contrib main
>> #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Sarge_ - Official Snapshot i386
>> Binary-1 (20050122)]/ unstable contrib main
>> #deb http://security.debian.org/ unstable updates main contrib
>>
>> deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
>> deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
>>
>> but,
>> when i do apt-cache search I don't get any of those packages which I
>> know are in the non-free pool
>>
>> Any clue?
>>
>
> Silly question, but did you apt-get update? also, try running aptitude
> to see if each category splits into main, contrib, and nonfree
>
>> Thank you,
>>
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