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October 3, 2025 at 1:30 am
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output of commands in a standard terminal window:
$ sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports InRelease
Hit:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://security.debian.org bookworm-security InRelease
Hit:2 https://ftp2.osuosl.org/pub/mxlinux/antix/bookworm bookworm InRelease
Hit:5 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org bookworm-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports InRelease
Hit:2 https://ftp2.osuosl.org/pub/mxlinux/antix/bookworm bookworm InRelease
Hit:5 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
meanwhile, this is what the “CLI APT-based Package Panager” outputs:
Checking source files ...
It appears that at least one list file is missing
You should probably run apt-get update now
Run apt-get update now?
= yes
> no
Press <Enter> to select the highlighted entry
Use 'h' for help, 'r' to redraw, 'q' to quit
Doing apt-get update
=> apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org bookworm-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports InRelease
Hit:4 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Hit:3 https://ftp2.osuosl.org/pub/mxlinux/antix/bookworm bookworm InRelease
Hit:5 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
update took 8.62 seconds
Checking source files ...
It appears that at least one list file is missing
You should probably run apt-get update now
Run apt-get update now?
> yes
> no
Press <Enter> to select the highlighted entry
Use 'h' for help, 'r' to redraw, 'q' to quit