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mikewilliamson
Asked: 2012-05-01 20:24:16 +0800 CST

Why is live-build failing to find this package?

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I am trying to use live-build to create a remix of ubuntu 12.04. My goal is a bootable liveusb that can install the base ubuntu system plus my custom packages. I am using live-build with the following config options:

 lb config --mode ubuntu --distribution precise --hostname livecd --username livecduser --archive-areas "main contrib" --binary-images iso-hybrid --architecture amd64 --debian-installer live

For some reason it fails with the following error:

Building dependency tree... Done
E: Unable to locate package console-common
P: Begin unmounting filesystems...

Strangely:

apt-cache search console-common
console-common - basic infrastructure for text console configuration

Anyone have thoughts or guidance on why this is failing?

live-usb live-cd 12.04

2 Answers

  1. You've only enabled the main and contrib areas, but the console-common package is provided by the Universe repository. Try --archive-areas "main universe contrib" instead.

    $ apt-cache policy console-common
console-common:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.7.85
  Version table:
     0.7.85 0
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe amd64 Packages
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  2. Hi I had the same issue as you and the most that I find is to put directly the .deb downloading in ubuntu in the packages.chroot directory (if you have the 3.0 version) and if you need an other package for dependances do the same.

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