Has gnumeric been abandoned by Ubuntu Linux

[Keith]

On 3/28/23 1:23 PM, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 29/3/23 00:09, Colin Law wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Mar 2023 at 16:56, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
>>> ...
>>> What I now wonder, given the repositories that I showed in the initial
>>> post in this thread, why, if gnumeric is present in the Ubuntu 22.04
>>> repositories, synaptic did not find it.
>>
>> It should be in universe.  What do these commands show?
>> apt policy gnumeric
>> apt policy gnumeric-common
>> In ubuntu I see
>>
>> $ apt policy gnumeric
>> gnumeric:
>>     Installed: (none)
>>     Candidate: 1.12.51-1
>>     Version table:
>>        1.12.51-1 500
>>           500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages
>>
>> $ apt policy gnumeric-common
>> gnumeric-common:
>>     Installed: (none)
>>     Candidate: 1.12.51-1
>>     Version table:
>>        1.12.51-1 500
>>           500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages
>>           500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe i386 Packages
>>
> Both command return nothing - they simply return to the prompt, with no
> response displayed.
> 
> That is by invoking both commands from within a sudo -i session.
> 

Sounds like either the package cache is corrupt, or the package lists 
files are.

$ sudo apt-get gencaches
will generate new pkgcache.bin and srcpkgcache.bin files

$ apt list gnumeric

If still not listed, then re-downloading the package list files are 
probably necessary.

1. Disable any 3rd party repos. They can be re-enabled after the 
official package lists are downloaded and indexed.

2. Move /var/lib/apt/lists to /var/lib/apt/lists-old as a backup

$ sudo mv /var/lib/apt/lists /var/lib/apt/lists-old

3. Run apt update

$ sudo apt update

After apt finishes downloading the list and rebuilding the package 
cache, see if gnumeric is listed now.

$ apt list gnumeric

-- 
Keith