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

[Colin Law]

On 8 March 2015 at 10:23, Thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 09:55:57 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
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>> but having thought about it some more, if the version has been updated,
>> then running install without running update would try to install the old
>> version of the package, which might well no longer be in the repo, so
>> this may well explain Thufir's problem.  I guess that it is saying not
>> that it cannot find the package (as in my example above) but that it
>> cannot find a particular version of the package - namely the old one.
>>
>> @Thufir - is that what you see?  Cannot find a particular version of the
>> package?
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>
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> I don't recall at the moment.  I went to install wget and, pardon, I
> don't recall the error.  I just noticed the pattern.  That could very
> well be the problem, makes sense.

Whenever asking about an error it is a good idea, if possible, to know
exactly what the error said.

Colin