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what happened to my apt command?
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2020 4:09 pm
by hamilc
I am trying to do an update so I enter at the $ prompt, "sudo -get update" and I get the following
"unable to resolve host Rpi3" Rpi3 is my pi name.
So what gives?
Re: what happened to my apt command?
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2020 4:18 pm
by DougieLawson
You have a syntax error.
The commands are
sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade -y
Copy'n'paste my blue text.
Re: what happened to my apt command?
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2020 4:26 pm
by fruitoftheloom
hamilc wrote: ↑Wed Jul 22, 2020 4:09 pm
I am trying to do an update so I enter at the $ prompt, "sudo -get update" and I get the following
"unable to resolve host Rpi3" Rpi3 is my pi name.
So what gives?
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... are/apt.md
Re: what happened to my apt command?
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2020 4:43 pm
by hippy
hamilc wrote: ↑Wed Jul 22, 2020 4:09 pm
I am trying to do an update so I enter at the $ prompt, "sudo -get update" and I get the following
"unable to resolve host Rpi3" Rpi3 is my pi name.
Assuming "apt -get update" is merely a typo; I've seen the same "unable to resolve host" error when I haven't set the hostname in all the right places.
Use 'raspi-config' to set the hostname, reboot, and it will hopefully fix itself, "sudo apt-get update" should then work.
Re: what happened to my apt command?
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2020 4:53 pm
by B.Goode
hamilc wrote: ↑Wed Jul 22, 2020 4:09 pm
I am trying to do an update so I enter at the $ prompt, "sudo -get update" and I get the following
"unable to resolve host Rpi3" Rpi3 is my pi name.
So what gives?
Don't know. With my recent version of RasPiOS Buster I get this -
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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo -get update
sudo: unknown group: et
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin
Re: what happened to my apt command?
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2020 5:03 pm
by HvdW
It's either
sudo apt update
or
sudo apt-get update
As mentioned before
sudo -get update
is a non existing command