hufman
July 26th, 2008, 03:04 AM
I installed Kubuntu 6.06 a long time ago, and I keep dist-upgrading to the latest version when they get released.
However, because of this, I believe I have tons of unavailable packages in apt that I can't easily remove.
I've tried dpkg --clear-avail and dpkg --forget-old-unavail without any improvement. I've cleared /var/cache/apt several times, and apt-get update keeps rebuilding it.
I have one package in particular that I use to test whether my tweaks have worked, audacious-mac. It's an old package that contained the Monkey Audio Codec for Audacious, which has been moved into audacious-plugins. Whenever I try to install audacious-mac now, I get the following message:
Package audacious-mac is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source
E: Package audacious-mac has no installation candidate
Is there a way to clear out these outdated packages? Or are they stuck in a broken state in the repository side?
However, because of this, I believe I have tons of unavailable packages in apt that I can't easily remove.
I've tried dpkg --clear-avail and dpkg --forget-old-unavail without any improvement. I've cleared /var/cache/apt several times, and apt-get update keeps rebuilding it.
I have one package in particular that I use to test whether my tweaks have worked, audacious-mac. It's an old package that contained the Monkey Audio Codec for Audacious, which has been moved into audacious-plugins. Whenever I try to install audacious-mac now, I get the following message:
Package audacious-mac is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source
E: Package audacious-mac has no installation candidate
Is there a way to clear out these outdated packages? Or are they stuck in a broken state in the repository side?