monoab314
October 26th, 2011, 08:49 AM
Hi all
I have two fresh installs of Lubuntu Oneiric i386. Apt-cache show is behaving differently on the two boxes even though the config under /etc/apt are identical, even the archive servers in use. In the one case the detailed package descriptions is missing. E.g. here is the diff between the two of "apt-cache show hello":
16,23c16
< Description-en: The classic greeting, and a good example
< The GNU hello program produces a familiar, friendly greeting. It
< allows non-programmers to use a classic computer science tool which
< would otherwise be unavailable to them.
< .
< Seriously, though: this is an example of how to do a Debian package.
< It is the Debian version of the GNU Project's `hello world' program
< (which is itself an example for the GNU Project).
---
> Description: The classic greeting, and a good example
This is very frustrating when searching for new packages to install. The descriptions is also missing in synaptic.
Any ideas?
Thanks
I have two fresh installs of Lubuntu Oneiric i386. Apt-cache show is behaving differently on the two boxes even though the config under /etc/apt are identical, even the archive servers in use. In the one case the detailed package descriptions is missing. E.g. here is the diff between the two of "apt-cache show hello":
16,23c16
< Description-en: The classic greeting, and a good example
< The GNU hello program produces a familiar, friendly greeting. It
< allows non-programmers to use a classic computer science tool which
< would otherwise be unavailable to them.
< .
< Seriously, though: this is an example of how to do a Debian package.
< It is the Debian version of the GNU Project's `hello world' program
< (which is itself an example for the GNU Project).
---
> Description: The classic greeting, and a good example
This is very frustrating when searching for new packages to install. The descriptions is also missing in synaptic.
Any ideas?
Thanks