Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS: can't install dnsmasq - broken package

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 08:46:16PM +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Le 01/06/2014 21:14, Colin Law a écrit :
> >Unfortunate that you did not at least answer my first question (what
> >apt-cache policy shows).  Now we will never know.  It is possible you
> >did not have the correct repositories enabled.
> >Also you have not actually answered the second question, what happens
> >when you try to install dnsmasq-base?  The questions were not to fix
> >your problem but to diagnose what was wrong with your system, if
> >anything, or to get to the point that a bug could be reported.
> 
> I have to issue a big mea culpa on that one. I was only slightly
> panicking, because there was a job that needed to be done, and I
> thought I would never make such a rookie mistake.
> 
> Well, rookie mistake it was. Just a typo in sources.list, with
> "multiverse multiverse" instead of "universe multiverse". Fixed the
> typo, and everything runs smoothly now.
> 
> All's well that ends well. I guess I've pretty much made a complete
> fool of myself :o)

Nah, you just learned a valuable lesson: don't panic an be methodical in
figuring out what's wrong.

Marius Gedminas
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