Intrepid botches

[Mario Vukelic]

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 07:11 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
>     I have no idea what your doing here 

"man apt-cache":

DESCRIPTION
apt-cache performs a variety of operations on APT´s package cache.
apt-cache does not manipulate the state of the system but does provide
operations to search and generate interesting output from the package
metadata.
[...]
policy [ pkg(s) ]
policy is meant to help debug issues relating to the preferences file.
With no arguments it will print out the priorities of each source.
Otherwise it prints out detailed information about the priority
selection of the named package.

It shows for the named package where it would be installed from and
which versions are available in the repository

> but I did exactly what you did 
> and got:
> 
> Installed: none
> Candadate: none
>   Version Table:
> 
> This means MAYBE that I do not have the right thing somewhere.

It means that you do not have the medibuntu repository in your
sources.list or did not update (e.g., apt-get update) after adding it.

> This is why I dislike Intrepid. It took me 5 minutes to set up VLC on Hardy to 
> watch a DVD movie. It has taken 2 days and counting to do the same thing 
> on Intrepid.

First of all, nothing has changed in this area between Hardy and
Intrepid. At all.

And what did I just say?
> > You, however, are much too quick to blame every problem on Intrepid instead
> > of looking for the beam in your own eye. Against all previous evidence,
> > I might add.