[Bug 1202001] [NEW] aptitude show doesn't work for some existing packages
Reuben Thomas
rrt at sc3d.org
Wed Jul 17 09:13:43 UTC 2013
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fdflush - Flush out-of-date disk buffers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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