Xen users - Oct 2007 - Ubuntu DomU: Cannot apt-get many packages

I am not sure if this is a Xen issue or not, but it does appear to be.

I have a Ubuntu 7.10 DomU running on an Ubuntu 7.10 host.  On the host I am 
able to find (and install, if I wish) such packages as "htop",
"openvpn",
etc.

I copied my "sources.list" from the host to the DomU and performed an
"apt-get
upgrade"

When I try to search for/install such packages as "htop" and
"openvpn", they
(and many others) are not found!  It appears that only the "core"
packages
are found.

I created the DomU using "debbootstrap", so not sure if that may have 
something to do with it.  Could this be the reason?

Your insight/advice greatly appreciated.

TIA!

-Alan Murrell

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On 24/10/2007, Alan Murrell <lists@murrell.ca>
wrote:
>
> I am not sure if this is a Xen issue or not, but it does appear to be.
>
> I have a Ubuntu 7.10 DomU running on an Ubuntu 7.10 host.  On the host I
> am
> able to find (and install, if I wish) such packages as "htop",
"openvpn",
> etc.
>
> I copied my "sources.list" from the host to the DomU and
performed an
> "apt-get
> upgrade"
>
> When I try to search for/install such packages as "htop" and
"openvpn",
> they
> (and many others) are not found!  It appears that only the "core"
packages
> are found.

Have you copied also the files under the /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory?

When you run "apt-get update", do you get the same number of lines
(more or
less) on both systems?

Anyway - if you can access the network then this must be a Ubunutu/apt
config issue, nothing to do with it running under Xen.

--Amos


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On Tuesday 23 October 2007 21:26:58 Amos Shapira wrote:
>
> Have you copied also the files under the /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory?
There wasn''t anything under that directory, but I performed an rsync of
the
entire "/etc/apt/" directpry from the host to the VM.
> When you run "apt-get update", do you get the same number of
lines (more or
> less) on both systems?
I do, and no errors pop up.
> Anyway - if you can access the network then this must be a Ubunutu/apt
> config issue, nothing to do with it running under Xen.
It may be.  I will post to the Ubuntu forums as well and see if they have any 
ideas.  I was hoping someone here might have come across this as well.

-Alan Murrell

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> > Have you copied also the files under the /etc/apt/sources.list.d
> > directory?
>
> There wasn''t anything under that directory, but I performed an
rsync of the
> entire "/etc/apt/" directpry from the host to the VM.
This might seem obvious, in which case I apologise, but did you do a recursive 
rsync (-r) as opposed to just using *?
> > When you run "apt-get update", do you get the same number of
lines (more
> > or less) on both systems?
>
> I do, and no errors pop up.
OK, well that sounds promising, at least.

What happens if you apt-cache search for these packages on the domU and on the 
dom0?
> > Anyway - if you can access the network then this must be a Ubunutu/apt
> > config issue, nothing to do with it running under Xen.
>
> It may be.  I will post to the Ubuntu forums as well and see if they have
> any ideas.  I was hoping someone here might have come across this as well.
Out of interest, presumably you''re running the same distro release on
dom0 and
domU?

Cheers,
Mark

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Alan Murrell wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 October 2007 21:26:58 Amos Shapira wrote:
>> Have you copied also the files under the /etc/apt/sources.list.d
directory?
> 
> There wasn''t anything under that directory, but I performed an
rsync of the
> entire "/etc/apt/" directpry from the host to the VM.
> 
This is fairly off topic for this list now, but the file you care about
is /etc/apt/sources.list, not particularly the things in the
sources.list.d directory as much (in my experience)
>> When you run "apt-get update", do you get the same number of
lines (more or
>> less) on both systems?
> 
> I do, and no errors pop up.
> 
Once aptitude (or apt-get) update has run, you should see the same
things via aptitude search that you normally would.

This is almost always a problem for me when I install with debootstrap,
as the /etc/apt/sources.list that you get isn''t nearly as complete/long
as you get with a normal install.

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Hi Luke,

On Thursday 25 October 2007 11:30:34 Luke wrote:
> This is fairly off topic for this list now, but the file you care about
> is /etc/apt/sources.list, not particularly the things in the
> sources.list.d directory as much (in my experience)
Agreed about the off-topicness, but thank your for replying regardless :-)

Yes, i copied over the ''/etc/apt/sources.list'' file as well,
and when I
ran ''apt-get update'', I saw it grab all the headers from the
different
sources, but running something like "apt-cache search htop" or
"apt-cache
search openvpn" yields no results :-(
> This is almost always a problem for me when I install with debootstrap,
> as the /etc/apt/sources.list that you get isn''t nearly as
complete/long
> as you get with a normal install.
No, it only has one entry: for the main repository.

-Alan Murrell

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