[Bug 1202001] [NEW] aptitude show doesn't work for some existing packages

[Reuben Thomas]

On 17 July 2013 04:53, Daniel Hartwig <mandyke at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 17 July 2013 07:40, Reuben Thomas <rrt at sc3d.org> wrote:
> > Public bug reported:
> >
> > Running "aptitude show fdflush" doesn't work, even though there's a
> > package "fdflush". I checked my spelling very carefully. "apt-cache
> > search fdflush" works fine. "aptitude show" works fine for other package
> > names I tried it with.
>
> Provide the full output of these commands:
>
> $ apt-cache policy fdflush
> $ apt-cache search fdflush
> $ aptitude show fdflush
>

$ apt-cache policy fdflush
fdflush:i386:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.0.1.3
  Version table:
     1.0.1.3 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/universe i386
Packages
$ apt-cache search fdflush
fdflush - Flush out-of-date disk buffers
$ aptitude show fdflush
E: Unable to locate package fdflush

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Title:
  aptitude show doesn't work for some existing packages

Status in “aptitude” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Running "aptitude show fdflush" doesn't work, even though there's a
  package "fdflush". I checked my spelling very carefully. "apt-cache
  search fdflush" works fine. "aptitude show" works fine for other
  package names I tried it with.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: aptitude 0.6.8.1-2ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-26.38-generic 3.8.13.2
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-26-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Jul 17 00:37:03 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-05-24 (784 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: aptitude
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-24 (83 days ago)

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