odd apt behavior

[John Dangler]

On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 19:58 -0500, Shawn McCuan wrote:
> This may sound ridiculous, but did you do an apt-get update on both systems
> prior to searching the cache?
Yes.  As a matter of fact, I tried both through searching Synaptic and
command line.  Same results...
I'm including the sources.list file here (which is the same on both
machines) for reference.

# *** main ***
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted

# *** main updates ***
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main
restricted

# *** universe ***
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe

# *** backports - not using these ***
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main
restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main
restricted universe multiverse

# *** main security ***
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main
restricted

# *** main security universe ***
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe


> 
> Shawn McCuan
> smccuan at gmail.com
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of John Dangler
> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 6:27 PM
> To: Ubuntu User List
> Subject: odd apt behavior
> 
> I have a desktop and a laptop, both running Dapper (6.06LTS)
> Both are at the same update levels, and both have identical sources.list
> files.
> 
> On the desktop,I type apt-cache search sun-java , and get the following
> list:
> 
> gymsmoke at croatus:~$ apt-cache search sun-java
> sun-java5-bin - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0
> sun-java5-demo - Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0 demos and
> examples
> sun-java5-doc - Sun JDK(TM) Documention -- integration installer
> sun-java5-fonts - Lucida TrueType fonts (from the Sun JRE)
> sun-java5-jdk - Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0
> sun-java5-jre - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0
> sun-java5-plugin - The Java(TM) Plug-in, Java SE 5.0
> sun-java5-source - Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0 source files
> 
> On the laptop, I type apt-cache search sun-java, and get - nothing!
> gymsmoke at nebo:~$ apt-cache search sun-java
> gymsmoke at nebo:~$ 
> 
> Anyone have any explanation for this?
> 
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