Monty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > For the past while I have been experiencing problems with my apt-get command > and I was wondering if anyone might be able to help me with my > difficulties. > > The problem is that my apt-get will not seam to update/upgrade any of my > packages even though I know there are new packages available by looking in > /var/lib/dpkg/available. > > As an example, I currently have lynx V2.8.5REL1 installed but my > /var/lib/dpkg/available file indicates that the latest package is Lynx > V2.8.5-2. When I execute: apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade I get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% apt-cache policy lynx lynx: Installed: 2.8.5-2 Candidate: 2.8.5-2 Version table: *** 2.8.5-2 0 500 copy: sarge/main Packages 500 http://amd64.debian.net sarge/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Sarge indeed does have 2.8.5-2 as latest version but that isn't even the problem: $ dpkg --compare-versions "2.8.5-2" "<<" "2.8.5REL1" && echo yes yes Your local version of lynx is newer than the latest version in sarge. Installing the sarge version would be downgrading. > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > > This seams to be the standard response from the apt-get command as it does > this for other packages as well. In fact it has been a couple of months > since any packages have updated/upgraded. > > My sources.list is as follows: (I have tried the Bytekeeper mirror in > Belgium as well with identical results) > > deb ftp://ftp.debian.de/debian-amd64/debian-amd64 sarge contrib main non-free > deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.de/debian-amd64/debian-amd64 sarge contrib main > non-free That seems to work fine. $ bzcat Packages.bz2 | grep-dctrl -X -P lynx Package: lynx Priority: optional Section: web Installed-Size: 4676 Maintainer: James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.8.5-2 ... > > When I run: apt-get update it does return information about hitting kmy > sources so I believe that is working. > > Any ideas much appreciated. > > Thanks, > Monty Try creating the following [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release o=Debian-amd64,a=stable,v=3.1r0 Pin-Priority: 1001 and then 'apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade' to downgrade back to sarge. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]