Devuan oddity: package no longer known to apt after you remove it
by Ulysses_ from LinuxQuestions.org on (#535GS)
Have set up a wifi hotspot with debian and would like to repeat with devuan and hopefully less ram. Wifi dongle needs nonfree drivers. Everything works fine without any driver additions in devuan. Except a little workaround is needed: you must remove one of the two associated driver packages below (the other is firmware-misc-nonfree), and reconnect the wifi connection in the gnome network manager:
sudo apt remove firmware-zd1211
If you then try to install the same package,
sudo apt install firmware-zd1211
it says "Unable to locate package firmware-zd1211."
The package has just vanished! An apt update does not help. What is going on?
sudo apt remove firmware-zd1211
If you then try to install the same package,
sudo apt install firmware-zd1211
it says "Unable to locate package firmware-zd1211."
The package has just vanished! An apt update does not help. What is going on?