odd apt behavior

[Matthew Kuiken]

Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:29:25 -0500
> John Dangler <jdangler at atlantic.net> wrote:
> 
>> I'm including the sources.list file here (which is the same on both
>> machines) for reference.
>>
<snip>

> The only reference to "multiverse" that I see here is in the backports
> section, which is commented out. I suggest that you add the word
> "multiverse" to your "universe" " updates" and "security universe" lines,
> and try again with "sudo apt-get update" then try searching for your
> sun-java5" packages again... You will also probably want to add "universe"
> to the "updates" section as well.
> 
> Java is in the the multiverse repository.
> 
> Peter
> 

I will add my guess for why java shows up on one machine and not the 
other.  I would guess that you installed java from a set of deb files on 
the one machine, or that you temporarily enabled multiverse to install 
java.  If you disabled multiverse after installing java, the packages 
would be on your system, and thus show up in an apt-cache search, but 
you would be getting the information from the installed packages, rather 
than the repository listings.

-Matt