On Thursday 05 November 2015 09:47:12 The Wanderer wrote: > On 2015-11-05 at 09:41, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 05 November 2015 14:26:07 David Baron wrote: > >> 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? > > > > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=base-files > > Perhaps more usefully: > > What does 'apt-cache policy base-files' say on your machine? Exact > output, please; don't just give part of the response, copy-and-paste the > entire thing, the way I did in my previous mail. > ~$ apt-cache policy base-files base-files: Installed: 1:2.0 Candidate: 1:2.0 Version table: *** 1:2.0 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 9.5 0 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
> Similarly, what is the exact output you get from 'apt-get install > --reinstall base-files'? ~$ sudo apt-get --reinstall install base-files Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reinstallation of base-files is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 21 not upgraded. > Also, just to double-check: you have run 'apt-get update' recently, > correct? Done at least daily, cron job.