[Aptitude-devel] Bug#816385: aptitude: Regression with 0.7.7: "aptitude -u" no more works

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> >with 0.7.7, "aptitude -u" no more works:
> >
> >It shows the error message "E: The package cache is not available;
> >unable to download and install packages." and then displays an empty
> >package list.
> 
> Fixed now, marking as +pending.

Yay, thanks!

> >Workaround is to call just "aptitude" and then press "U" (Shift-U).
> 
> Hmm, 'U' is to mark upgradable packages to be upgraded, while 'u' is to
> perform the update-source-lists, the equivalent of "-u" in the command
> line.

Gna, you're right, I mixed those two up. Sorry for the confusion.

(I occassionally manage to mix the two keybindings up, too and run the
package update list immediately once again after I've done it already.
:-)

		Regards, Axel
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