[RESOLVED] odd apt behavior

[John Dangler]

Thanks to Matt, Peter, and the other responses.  I opened a file in vi
and started typing, listing all of the sources that I'd want to use.
Then, I diff'ed my sources.list file with it...
I now have main, updates, universe/multiverse, and no backports (which I
think is where I was trying to go in the first place).
And apt-cache searches on both machines produce the desired results.
[Whew! that was easy].

On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 11:40 -0800, Matthew Kuiken wrote:
> Peter Garrett wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:29:25 -0500
> > John Dangler <jdangler at atlantic.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> I'm including the sources.list file here (which is the same on both
> >> machines) for reference.
> >>
> <snip>
> 
> > The only reference to "multiverse" that I see here is in the backports
> > section, which is commented out. I suggest that you add the word
> > "multiverse" to your "universe" " updates" and "security universe" lines,
> > and try again with "sudo apt-get update" then try searching for your
> > sun-java5" packages again... You will also probably want to add "universe"
> > to the "updates" section as well.
> > 
> > Java is in the the multiverse repository.
> > 
> > Peter
> > 
> 
> I will add my guess for why java shows up on one machine and not the 
> other.  I would guess that you installed java from a set of deb files on 
> the one machine, or that you temporarily enabled multiverse to install 
> java.  If you disabled multiverse after installing java, the packages 
> would be on your system, and thus show up in an apt-cache search, but 
> you would be getting the information from the installed packages, rather 
> than the repository listings.
> 
> -Matt
> 
>