[nmglug] apt-get non-free

Karl Hegbloom karlheg at laclinux.com
Wed Apr 27 02:27:35 PDT 2005


On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 22:27 -0600, Andres Paglayan wrote:
> 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?

I wonder if you have an /etc/apt/preferences file?  I've never see this
problem happen before.  Odd.






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