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Author: KatolaZ
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] New here and needing help about backports
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 12:06:38PM +0200, Irrwahn wrote:
> Stephane Ascoet wrote on 13.07.2018 11:53:
> [cut]
> > On
> > <https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/d1pkgweb-query?search=virtualbox&release=ascii>
> > I can see "[ascii-backports] virtualbox-5.2.10-dfsg-6~bpo9+1".
> >
> > So I "aptitude update" but after that, "aptitude search virtualbox" only
> > gives me "i virtualbox-5.1". What's going on???
> >
> > For information:
> > cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> [cut]
> > deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged ascii main
> > deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged ascii-updates main
> > deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged ascii-security main
> > deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged ascii-backports main
> [cut]
>
> Hi Stephane,
>
> as you can tell from page you linked to the link you posted VirtualBox
> is placed in the 'contrib' section, which you did not enable for the
> ascii-* stanzas in your sources.list.
>


Nice catch, Irrwahn ;)

HND

KatolaZ

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