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was nvramtool removed from the package repository?

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  was nvramtool removed from the package repository? Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2023-12-16 15:10 +0100
    Re: was nvramtool removed from the package repository? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-12-16 15:30 +0100
    Re: was nvramtool removed from the package repository? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-12-16 15:30 +0100
      Re: was nvramtool removed from the package repository? Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2023-12-16 20:30 +0100

#264810 — was nvramtool removed from the package repository?

$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
$

$ sudo apt-get install nvramtool
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package nvramtool

$ uname -a
Linux debian 5.10.0-18-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.140-1 (2022-09-02)
x86_64 GNU/Linux

lbrtchx

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#264811

On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 02:04:26PM +0000, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> E: Unable to locate package nvramtool

Note to future readers: the actual question was contained in the
Subject: header rather than the body.  The original Subject: header
said, "was nvramtool removed from the package repository?"

To answer that, we can start with packages.debian.org.
<https://packages.debian.org/nvramtool> redirects to
<https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=nvramtool> which tells us:

  Package nvramtool
    buster (oldoldstable) (admin): Read/write coreboot-related NVRAM/CMOS information
    0.0+r3669-2.2+b2: amd64 armel armhf i386

So it clearly was removed after buster.  To find out more, we can
click on the package, and then click "Developer Information".

This takes us to <https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nvramtool> which
tells us the exact date the package was removed from testing.  We
can click that item to get to
<https://tracker.debian.org/news/1151276/nvramtool-removed-from-testing/>
which tells us *why* it was removed.

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#264812

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On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 02:04:26PM +0000, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> $ sudo apt-get update
> Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease
> Reading package lists... Done
> $
> 
> $ sudo apt-get install nvramtool
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to locate package nvramtool

  https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=nvramtool&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all

Last appearance is Debian Buster (oldoldstable, LTS).

But there's a package with a like-named binary, which might be
what you are looking for:

  https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/amd64/coreboot-utils/filelist

Cheers
-- 
t

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#264833

On 12/16/23, tomas@tuxteam.de <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=nvramtool&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
> Last appearance is Debian Buster (oldoldstable, LTS).
> But there's a package with a like-named binary, which might be
> what you are looking for:
>   https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/amd64/coreboot-utils/filelist

 Well, time to upgrade to bookworm. I kept using bullseye because I
hadn't found the time to pay homage to the new new thing.

 lbrtchx

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