In my earlier (solved) problem, I performed a core-only minimal Debian 11 install, as network services (and the Debian mirror) were unavailable at that time. After fixing the nic issue and configuring the network, I'm now trying to install some packages and convert this to a full-blown installation. I first did:
And was told tasksel was already up-to-date. Running tasksel with no parameters gave no output whatsever. Running:
Gave me an options screen, but the only package available to install was "standard system utilities", and already marked installed. I then tried to use apt, naming several packages by name. No matter what I tried, apt could not find any.
I then edited apt's "sources.list" file, to add back in two lines that the installer had commented out:
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# deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main
# deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main
I removed the comment marker from the above lines, then did an "apt-get update" to update apt's cache. This completed OK, but apt still can't find any packages. I then examined the cache file(s) for apt at /var/lib/apt/lists. The two relevant files seem to be:
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deb.debian.org_debian_dists_bullseye_updates_main_binary-amd64_Packages
security.debian.org_debian-security_dists_bullseye_security_main_binary-amd64_Packages
These are the only files ending in "Packages" and both were updated by the apt-get update cmd. The security file has a fair amount of stuff in it, but the main Package cache only shows packages relating to "Clamav".
Did I do something wrong in manually configuring apt? Are there more lines I need to add to sources.list?