SOLVED: yup there was a problem with /etc/apt/sources.list I have at some point tried to install vscode and I think that have messed things upI had another SD card with an old Stretch installation, so I just copied the Sources.list from that so now gawk invokes as expected Thankyou for the Hint , I ...

Sorry, my bad it is a 3B+ with stretch, but problem still persists with installing gawk awk,nawk and mawk are installed on my system, but no gawk and I really want the new features of gawk, so std. awk does not work for methe damn stroke does quite often make me being not too accurate like stating 4...

Hi ther I'm a new user to this forumalbeit not new to linux , used to be an unix admin prior to having a stroke I'm trying to install gawk on my Raspberry pi 4B+ (OSis raspbian stretch) and I do the following steps: -sudo apt-get update - sudo apt -get upgrade and finally: -sudo apt install gawk wit...