[linux-help] Re: apt-get/dpkg question

[Cheez-Czar <cabrubak@xxxxxxx>]

could you post your /etc/apt/sources.list 

On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Benjamin Bunck wrote:

> 
> I'm trying to install KDE2 on a debian machine and I've run into
> something a little strange.  I've added a source for the KDE2 binaries to
> my /etc/apt/sources.list file, and have run "apt-get update" to re-retrieve
> the package files.
> 
> If I then go on to run something like "apt-get install kdebase", I meet
> the usual, "you need these dependencies..." stuff, and it looks like it's
> going to work (and I assume it will).  However, when I run "dpkg -l
> *kde*", none of the KDE2 files are found.  Any ideas?  Do apt-get/dpkg
> look in different places for the package database?  Is there a way to
> search the packages with apt-get (I couldn't find one in the man page...)
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 
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