Issues installing optimized software on xu4

[boblablah]

This is what I get:

Error: Apt simulation failed.
- The apt cache may be corrupt
DietPi-Software will now exit

Background: I installed dietpi with kodi, transmission, plex, and a LEMP stack. I installed some other software (sab, sickbeard, couch, headphones, lazylibrarian) and lython and said prereqs for them. a little while later, I noticed an issue with plex. It seemed to be causing all kinds of weirdness. anyways, did an uninstall via dietpi-uninstall and them went to re-install andgot this little nugget.

I have run apt-get clean && apt-get update
I am at a loss as to where to go with this now.

[Fourdee]

This is what I get:

Error: Apt simulation failed.
- The apt cache may be corrupt
DietPi-Software will now exit

Background: I installed dietpi with kodi, transmission, plex, and a LEMP stack. I installed some other software (sab, sickbeard, couch, headphones, lazylibrarian) and lython and said prereqs for them. a little while later, I noticed an issue with plex. It seemed to be causing all kinds of weirdness. anyways, did an uninstall via dietpi-uninstall and them went to re-install andgot this little nugget.

I have run apt-get clean && apt-get update
I am at a loss as to where to go with this now.

Hi,

It sounds like a issue with your apt sources.
We run a "dummy" apt-get install of bash-doc. If it fails, you'll see the failure message.

I'd need to see your apt sources. Please send a bug report, this will contain the files in /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* which I need to check: http://dietpi.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=499#p2184

[boblablah]

Your reference code: 7a26d9bb-bfd2-438b-b193-417ee8983483-0

[Fourdee]

Your reference code: 7a26d9bb-bfd2-438b-b193-417ee8983483-0

Thanks.

Aside from /etc/apt/sources.list.d/wheezy.non-free.list, everything looks fine.

Please can you run the following and paste results:

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apt-get update
apt-cache search bash-doc
apt-get install bash-doc -y

If the above works without any issues, try:

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apt-get purge bash-doc -y
dietpi-software

Then select and install the software you require.

[boblablah]

here's my results: I wonder if that non-free has replaced something else that was defaulted before?

root@terrabyte:~# apt-get update
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates InRelease
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise InRelease
Ign http://ftp.debian.org jessie InRelease
Hit http://oph.mdrjr.net all InRelease
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/non-free armhf Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty InRelease
Hit http://oph.mdrjr.net jessie InRelease
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates InRelease
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/non-free Translation-en
Hit http://oph.mdrjr.net all/xu3 armhf Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main armhf Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie-backports InRelease
Hit http://oph.mdrjr.net all/main armhf Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main Translation-en
Hit http://oph.mdrjr.net all/testing armhf Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie Release.gpg
Get:1 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy InRelease
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Sources
Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main armhf Packages/DiffIndex [5,440 B]
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main armhf Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib armhf Packages
Ign ftp://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy InRelease
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Translation-en
Get:3 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free armhf Packages/DiffIndex [736 B]
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy Release.gpg
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Translation-en
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy Release
Hit http://oph.mdrjr.net jessie/main armhf Packages
Get:4 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [2,704 B]
Hit http://oph.mdrjr.net jessie/backports armhf Packages
Get:5 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free Translation-en/DiffIndex [736 B]
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/non-free armhf Packages
Get:6 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-backports/main armhf Packages/DiffIndex [27.8 kB]
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/non-free Translation-en
Get:7 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-backports/contrib armhf Packages/DiffIndex [16.7 kB]
Get:8 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-backports/non-free armhf Packages/DiffIndex [3,610 B]
Get:9 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-backports/contrib Translation-en/DiffIndex [5,008 B]
Get:10 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-backports/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [27.8 kB]
Get:11 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-backports/non-free Translation-en/DiffIndex [7,330 B]
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie Release
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie/main armhf Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie/contrib armhf Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie/non-free armhf Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie/contrib Translation-en
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie/main Translation-en
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://oph.mdrjr.net all/main Translation-en_CA
Ign http://oph.mdrjr.net all/main Translation-en
Ign http://oph.mdrjr.net all/testing Translation-en_CA
Ign http://oph.mdrjr.net all/testing Translation-en
Ign http://oph.mdrjr.net all/xu3 Translation-en_CA
Ign http://oph.mdrjr.net all/xu3 Translation-en
Ign http://oph.mdrjr.net jessie/backports Translation-en_CA
Ign http://oph.mdrjr.net jessie/backports Translation-en
Ign http://oph.mdrjr.net jessie/main Translation-en_CA
Ign http://oph.mdrjr.net jessie/main Translation-en
Fetched 97.9 kB in 14s (6,670 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
root@terrabyte:~# apt-get search bash-doc
E: Invalid operation search
root@terrabyte:~# apt-cache search bash-doc
root@terrabyte:~# apt-get install bash-doc -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package bash-doc is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
bash

E: Package 'bash-doc' has no installation candidate

[Fourdee]

here's my results: I wonder if that non-free has replaced something else that was defaulted before?

E: Package 'bash-doc' has no installation candidate

Lets try to clean up your apt sources, get it back to "standard" and test again.

Try:

• Removing (you may want to back these up):

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  rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/wheezy.non-free.list
  rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sabnzbdplus.list

• Reset sources.list

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  cat << _EOF_ > /etc/apt/sources.list
  deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-free
  deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main contrib non-free
  deb http://security.debian.org jessie/updates main contrib non-free
  deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main contrib non-free
  deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-proposed-updates contrib non-free main
  _EOF_
  

Then run the same tests again, and clean apt beforehand

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apt-get clean
apt-get update
apt-cache search bash-doc
apt-get install bash-doc -y

[boblablah]

I moved the non-free and sab lists to /root/

I got my /etc/apt/sources.list looking exactly as yours is shown.

apt-get clean
apt-cache search bash-doc (no real response - no error or positive acknowledgement)
apt-get install bash-doc


Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package bash-doc is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
bash

E: Package 'bash-doc' has no installation candidate


root@terrabyte:/etc/apt# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org jessie/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-proposed-updates contrib non-free main

[Fourdee]

I moved the non-free and sab lists to /root/

I got my /etc/apt/sources.list looking exactly as yours is shown.

apt-get clean
apt-cache search bash-doc (no real response - no error or positive acknowledgement)
apt-get install bash-doc


Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package bash-doc is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
bash

E: Package 'bash-doc' has no installation candidate


root@terrabyte:/etc/apt# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org jessie/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-proposed-updates contrib non-free main

Try this. It will completely clear the apt cache:

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/DietPi/dietpi/dietpi-apt-get_update 2 && apt-cache search bash-doc

[boblablah]

found it.... sweet jesus I found it.

Part of some goddamn tutorial i used (probably an htpcguide.com doc) for one of the python downloaders (sab, or sickbeard, or couchpotato, or headphones) had an interesting thing to help separate jessie from wheezy. in /etc/apt/preferences.d/ i found a jessie.pref file.

it reads like so:

Package: *
Pin: release n=jessie
Pin-Priority: -1

From what I can tell, this affects the behavior of apt to limit options for install. anyways, renamed to jessie.prefs.old and ran apt-get update. got a significantly longer listing of sources flying by, apt-cache search bash-doc results in a found package... and dietpi-software allows me to install stuff again.

[Fourdee]

found it.... sweet jesus I found it.

Sweet mother of Mary Jesus, salutations with frankincense and mur! (sorry, couldn't resist. My humor is a little "weird" lol)

Part of some goddamn tutorial i used (probably an htpcguide.com doc) for one of the python downloaders (sab, or sickbeard, or couchpotato, or headphones) had an interesting thing to help separate jessie from wheezy. in /etc/apt/preferences.d/ i found a jessie.pref file.

it reads like so:

Package: *
Pin: release n=jessie
Pin-Priority: -1

From what I can tell, this affects the behavior of apt to limit options for install. anyways, renamed to jessie.prefs.old and ran apt-get update. got a significantly longer listing of sources flying by, apt-cache search bash-doc results in a found package... and dietpi-software allows me to install stuff again.

Interesting, i've not seen this option before, its a new one for me. Great find and thanks for letting us know!