Index Question

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 00:37 -0500, Daniel Hollocher wrote:

> maybe dpkg-query -l

This doesn't show packages that aren't installed.

I don't know if this will sort by package names and show descriptions:

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/gutsy/man1/grep-aptavail.1.html

I'm booted to Arch Linux and access Kubuntu Saucy by
$ sudo systemd-nspawn -D /mnt/saucy
and for what reason ever, I can't install it

root at saucy:~# apt-get update ; apt-get install dctrl-tools
Err http://security.ubuntu.com saucy-security InRelease
  
Err http://extras.ubuntu.com saucy InRelease
  
Err http://deb.opera.com stable InRelease
  
Err http://extras.ubuntu.com saucy Release.gpg
  Could not resolve 'extras.ubuntu.com'
Err http://security.ubuntu.com saucy-security Release.gpg             
  Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
Err http://dl.google.com stable InRelease                             
  
Err http://deb.opera.com stable Release.gpg                           
  Could not resolve 'deb.opera.com'
Err http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg
  Could not resolve 'dl.google.com'
Err http://de.archive.ubuntu.com saucy InRelease
  
Err http://de.archive.ubuntu.com saucy-updates InRelease
  
Err http://de.archive.ubuntu.com saucy-backports InRelease
  
Err http://de.archive.ubuntu.com saucy Release.gpg
  Could not resolve 'de.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://de.archive.ubuntu.com saucy-updates Release.gpg
  Could not resolve 'de.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://de.archive.ubuntu.com saucy-backports Release.gpg
  Could not resolve 'de.archive.ubuntu.com'
Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch
http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/saucy/InRelease  

W: Failed to fetch
http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/saucy-updates/InRelease  

W: Failed to fetch
http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/saucy-backports/InRelease  

W: Failed to fetch
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/saucy-security/InRelease  

W: Failed to fetch
http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/saucy/InRelease  

W: Failed to fetch
http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/InRelease  

W: Failed to fetch http://deb.opera.com/opera/dists/stable/InRelease  

W: Failed to fetch
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/saucy-security/Release.gpg
Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch
http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/saucy/Release.gpg  Could not
resolve 'extras.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://deb.opera.com/opera/dists/stable/Release.gpg
Could not resolve 'deb.opera.com'

W: Failed to fetch
http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/Release.gpg  Could
not resolve 'dl.google.com'

W: Failed to fetch
http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/saucy/Release.gpg  Could not
resolve 'de.archive.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch
http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/saucy-updates/Release.gpg
Could not resolve 'de.archive.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch
http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/saucy-backports/Release.gpg
Could not resolve 'de.archive.ubuntu.com'

W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  debtags
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dctrl-tools
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 125 kB of archives.
After this operation, 348 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Err http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main dctrl-tools amd64
2.23
  Could not resolve 'de.archive.ubuntu.com'
Failed to fetch
http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/dctrl-tools/dctrl-tools_2.23_amd64.deb  Could not resolve 'de.archive.ubuntu.com'
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with
--fix-missing?
root at saucy:~#