On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 10:58:32AM +0100, steve wrote: > Le 03-11-2016, à 18:40:57 +0900, Mark Fletcher a écrit : > > >>>>aptitude search ~Ajessie~i > >>>> > >>>>meet your needs? > >>>> > >>> > >>>No, it does not. When I ran that command it did not produce any > >>>output. What is it supposed to do? > >> > >I'm with Kamaraju on this, zero output. I also tried quoting the search > >string in case bash was interfering, made no difference. > > That's really strange. This works on all my Debian Jessie boxes but not > on my raspbian's one. >
Ah -- false alarm at least on my machine, sorry for the confusion. I was getting zero output when I tried this the other day, but I had forgotten that at that time I had previously had a failed run of aptitude update due to network dodginess (if you'll pardon the technical term) on Wednesday night Asia time -- BTW was there another DNS DDoS attack then? Everything went horribly Pete Tong on Wednesday evening and I couldn't find anything wrong locally, and everything was fine again by yesterday morning. However, I had forgotten that I had run aptitude update and failed while the network was bejiggered. So Aptitude's notion of what it had going on was in a mess. Once I realised this I re-ran aptitude update and now, aptitude search ~Ajessie~i produces results. Mark