#712481 apt: installing package with terminal gives errors...

Package:
debootstrap
Source:
debootstrap
Submitter:
Andre Verwijs
Date:
2025-12-28 17:15:02 UTC
Severity:
important
Tags:
#712481#5
Date:
2013-06-16 10:42:13 UTC
From:
To:
when i install package with terminal i get this...

root@Debian-Jessie:/home/verwijs# apt-get install python-vte
Pakketlijsten worden ingelezen... Klaar
Boom van vereisten wordt opgebouwd
De status informatie wordt gelezen... Klaar
De volgende extra pakketten zullen geïnstalleerd worden:
  libvte-common libvte9
De volgende NIEUWE pakketten zullen geïnstalleerd worden:
  libvte-common libvte9 python-vte
0 pakketten opgewaardeerd, 3 pakketten nieuw geïnstalleerd, 0 te verwijderen
en 0 niet opgewaardeerd.
Er moeten 1574 kB aan archieven opgehaald worden.
Door deze operatie zal er 3015 kB extra schijfruimte gebruikt worden.
Wilt u doorgaan [J/n]? J
Ophalen:1 ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main libvte-common all
1:0.28.2-5 [435 kB]
Ophalen:2 ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main libvte9 amd64 1:0.28.2-5
[726 kB]
Ophalen:3 ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main python-vte amd64
1:0.28.2-5 [413 kB]
1574 kB opgehaald in 9s (170 kB/s)
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 294 package
'libtext-wrapi18n-perl':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 414 package
'libustr-1.0-1:amd64':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 688 package
'debconf':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 962 package
'dash':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1647 package
'coreutils':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1898 package
'debianutils':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 2498 package
'login':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 3855 package
'libuuid1:amd64':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 5389 package
'ncurses-base':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 5593 package
'libpam0g:amd64':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 5993 package
'bsdutils':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 6172 package
'sensible-utils':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 8004 package
'ncurses-bin':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 8037 package
'perl-base':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 8066 package
'sysv-rc':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 10240 package
'libsepol1:amd64':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 10455 package
'libpam-modules:amd64':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 10560 package
'tzdata':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 10854 package
'libsemanage1:amd64':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 12285 package
'diffutils':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 13240 package
'tar':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 13848 package
'libmount1':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 14232 package
'zlib1g:amd64':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 15489 package
'libgcc1:amd64':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 16618 package
'base-files':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 16833 package
'mount':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 17105 package
'libtext-iconv-perl':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 17719 package
'libncurses5:amd64':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 19782 package
'libattr1:amd64':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 20229 package
'sed':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 21335 package
'e2fslibs:amd64':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 22328 package
'base-passwd':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 22791 package
'libcomerr2:amd64':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 22894 package
'mawk':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 24272 package
'debconf-i18n':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 24471 package
'grep':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 24782 package
'gcc-4.8-base:amd64':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 26099 package
'passwd':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 26239 package
'hostname':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 26458 package
'libacl1:amd64':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 26571 package
'libpam-runtime':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 26914 package
'sysvinit':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 27154 package
'libslang2:amd64':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 27291 package
'initscripts':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 27340 package
'libblkid1:amd64':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 27557 package
'libss2:amd64':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 27609 package
'libsemanage-common':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 27698 package
'libpam-modules-bin':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 27809 package
'findutils':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 28967 package
'e2fsprogs':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 29489 package
'liblzma5:amd64':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 30219 package
'libdb5.1:amd64':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 30368 package
'insserv':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 30444 package
'gzip':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 30494 package
'dpkg':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 30745 package
'libpcre3:amd64':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 31040 package
'liblocale-gettext-perl':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 33047 package
'libbz2-1.0:amd64':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 34355 package
'libtinfo5:amd64':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 35139 package
'gcc-4.7-base:amd64':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 35254 package
'libc-bin':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 35883 package
'sysvinit-utils':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 36121 package
'multiarch-support':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 37380 package
'libselinux1:amd64':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 37728 package
'libc6:amd64':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 39458 package
'bash':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 39551 package
'util-linux':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 42523 package
'libtext-charwidth-perl':
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dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 42629 package
'libcap2:amd64':
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Selecting previously unselected package libvte-common.
(Database inlezen ... 187888 files and directories currently installed.)
Uitpakken van libvte-common (uit .../libvte-common_1%3a0.28.2-5_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libvte9.
Uitpakken van libvte9 (uit .../libvte9_1%3a0.28.2-5_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package python-vte.
Uitpakken van python-vte (uit .../python-vte_1%3a0.28.2-5_amd64.deb) ...
Instellen van libvte-common (1:0.28.2-5) ...
Instellen van libvte9 (1:0.28.2-5) ...
Instellen van python-vte (1:0.28.2-5) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
root@Debian-Jessie:/home/verwijs#

#712481#10
Date:
2013-06-16 12:32:31 UTC
From:
To:
Hello Andre,

Yes, indeed, a justification is required … (sry, couldn't resist)
[…]
[and many more of these lines]

APT isn't touching this file (yeah okay, it kind of does if you happen to use
dselect with APT, but you don't seem to do that) so reassigning to dpkg as
it is their file and they will know best what might be wrong on your system
and how to fix it (I presume it isn't a bug in the end, but they will know)

Downgraded the severity though as a warning itself isn't destroying anything
and your transcript shows that indeed the dpkg/APT run was successful.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies

#712481#21
Date:
2013-06-17 06:39:03 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

Yeah, it's mainly cruft from the past I guess. The available file is not
particularly important for usage with apt but dpkg got stricter in
multiple ways and is thus reporting missing fields.

Clean up your file with "sudo dpkg --clear-avail" and you'll get rid of
those warnings.

Cheers,

#712481#26
Date:
2013-06-17 07:10:33 UTC
From:
To:
Control: reopen -1
Control: reassign -1 debootstrap
Control: forcemerge 694886 -1
Control: affects 694886 dpkg

This is a known issue with systems installed by debootstrap. For now
the "solution" is to clear the available file with: «dpkg --clear-avail».

Thanks,
Guillem

#712481#45
Date:
2015-07-29 09:13:51 UTC
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Vraag uw dringende financiële hulp vandaag en hebben het in uw bankrekening binnen 24 uur. Voor meer informatie, neem dan contact met ons op uw belangstelling via onderstaande formulier;

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Date:
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Vraag uw dringende financiële hulp vandaag en hebben het in uw bankrekening binnen 24 uur. Voor meer informatie, neem dan contact met ons op uw belangstelling via onderstaande formulier;

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#712481#72
Date:
2025-12-28 17:07:53 UTC
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