[PLUG] Debian GNU/Linux "woody" apache/perl problems.

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:46:56PM -0700, quoth Jeme A Brelin:
> 
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, David Bridges wrote:
> > That sounds weird, maybe you need to check your sources.list and verify
> > the entries.  I have several woody boxes running the combination you are
> > wanting.  dpkg shows me this
> > ii  perl           5.6.1-7
> > ii  apache         1.3.24-3
> 
> Duh... dpkg is confusing me.  What was teh command line that yielded this
> output?

$ dpkg -l perl apache

> 
> > Here is the sources.list on that box.
> > 
> > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ woody main
> > deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ woody main
> > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main
> > deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main
> > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
> 
> 
> This is identical to my sources.list except s/woody/testing/ and
> s/stable/testing/ on the last line.
> 
> I did have an issue at install where the wrong sources.list was installed,
> but I put in the right data and ran apt-get dist-upgrade.  I don't believe
> anything was even installed while those sources were active.  but the
> data's in my database.  How can I purge the apt cache and download a fresh
> list without harming the db of installed software?

apt-get clean