On Thursday 05 November 2015 08:47:48 The Wanderer wrote: > On 2015-11-05 at 03:22, David Baron wrote: > > On Wednesday 04 November 2015 16:35:57 David Wright wrote: > >> On Wed 04 Nov 2015 at 22:56:42 (+0200), David Baron wrote: > >>> So, I easily edited the text in /etc/issue to something more to > >>> my liking. This is just text, no meaning. > >>> > >>> Watching a cmake session, I noticed the distribution being > >>> called, you guessed it: Kali ... > >>> > >>> Found another file: ~$ cat /etc/os-release > >>> PRETTY_NAME="Kali GNU/Linux 2.0 (sana)" > >>> NAME="Kali GNU/Linux" > >>> ID=kali > >>> VERSION="2.0 (sana)" > >>> VERSION_ID="2.0" > >>> ID_LIKE=debian > >>> ANSI_COLOR="1;31" > >>> HOME_URL="http://www.kali.org/" > >>> SUPPORT_URL="http://forums.kali.org/" > >>> BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.kali.org/" > >>> > >>> Actually a symlink to /usr/lib/os-release > >>> > >>> So where did I get this? > >> > >> dpkg -S <filename> shows that they both belong to the "base-files" > >> package. > > > > This package is no longer on the repos!! > > Of course it is: > > ======== > $ apt-cache policy base-files > base-files: > Installed: 9.5 > Candidate: 9.5 > Version table: > *** 9.5 0 > 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > 8+deb8u2 0 > 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages > ======== > > I'd be extremely surprised if it weren't, since it's flagged as > "Essential: yes". > > What repositories do you have listed in /etc/apt/sources.list? > > I really suspect you're not actually running Debian as such, but some > derivative (presumably named "Kali") with which I at least am not > directly familiar, and your problems are coming from the changes > involved in their repositories.
Here is my sources.list ~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list # basic deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free #Virtualbox from Oracle # deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/ squeeze contrib non- free deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/ wheezy contrib #Kde pre-releases? # deb http://qt-kde.debian.net/debian/ unstable main # deb http://qt-kde.debian.net/debian/ experimental main # deb http://qt-kde.debian.net/debian/ experimental-snapshots main # deb http://packages.siduction.org/kdenext/ experimental-snapshots main #flight simulator launcher # deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/xquiet/ppa/ubuntu/ precise main #awv.lvw plugins # deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/blablack/music-prod/ubuntu/ quantal main # deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/blablack/music-prod/ubuntu/ quantal main # Kali linux repositories | Added by Katoolin # deb http://http.kali.org/kali/ sana contrib non-free main # deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security/ sana/updates non-free contrib main # deb http://repo.kali.org/kali/ kali-bleeding-edge main I had those kali repos but never installed any of it, but that Katoolin script might have touched the text files. Attempt to apt-get --reinstall install base-files will produce error "cannot be downloaded." In Synaptic, the Debian symbol does not appear with the package. Maybe it is only on stable?