have to update on a regular basis...why?

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Sun Mar 8 09:19:05 UTC 2015


On 8 March 2015 at 01:57, Thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> Quite frequently when I go to install a package it can't be found, but
> just running sudo apt-get update fixes that.  Why the constant need to
> update?  It's not like the package was suddenly added.

If it was already in the archive you should not get a can't be found
message.  Next time it happens run
apt-cache policy <package>
and
sudo apt install <package>
and copy the results before doing the update.  then run
sudo apt update
and apt-cache policy again and copy the result before running the install.

Colin




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