Weird apt issue ?
 

Hi,
I am trying to get jdk1.1 on a woody, seems simple, but ...

The packages are located in:
ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/j/jdk1.1/

Package search gives:
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/s...le&release=all
Package jdk1.1
Package jdk1.1-native
Let's try to install them !

Well, here is a copy of my sources.list, just hold a sec. and you'll see my weird problem :-)
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ woody main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian-non-US/ woody/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main contrib non-free

Issue1:
# apt-get install jdk
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package jdk

Issue2:
# apt-get install jdk1.1
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package jdk1.1 has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list
E: Package jdk1.1 has no installation candidate

Issue3:
# apt-cache search jdk
mmake - Makefile generator for Java programs
vide - IDE for C++ and Java based on the V GUI
jde - Java Development Environment for Emacs or XEmacs.

Of course, I did an 'apt-get update' before trying to get jdk.

In my understanding of apt system, lists of packages are located in dists (Packages and Release)
And then it tells apt where in pool to get the deb and tarballs.

My guess is the files in dists directory are not giving access to the packages I would like to install.

Any clue ?

Fred

Hmm this is very weird, maybe you have a corrupt file?

try

apt-get clean
apt-get update
apt-get install jdk1.1

If that doesn't work try deleting the file for the repository /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_woody_non-free_binary-i386_Packages
and doing another apt-get update, apt-get install jdk1.1, there are other things, like dpkg files, but where getting in deep then...