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

["Benjamin F. Bunck" <bbunck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, my home computer is off right now, and I won't be able to get to it 
until this evening, but basically, my /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this:

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#
#
# <various comments made in the default file>
#
#

#<comment>
< here are the sources that were added during the installation,  things like 
< "deb http://http.debian...."; etc.  Everything seems to be working here, as 
< far as I know.

#KDE2
deb ftp://kde.debian.net/pub/kde potato main crypto
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Again, it looks like apt-get can find the packages that I know are part of 
kde2, like kdebase, but I can't find them when I search through the database 
using "dpkg -l *kde*" or something similar.  

Ben



On Tuesday 03 July 2001 10:15 am, you wrote:
> 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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