deb-get: Can't update/upgrade - /var/cache/deb-get/deb-get.json empty

Can’t update/upgrade - /var/cache/deb-get/deb-get.json empty

can’t install with one line install : curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wimpysworld/deb-get/main/deb-get | sudo -E bash -s install deb-get

I’s not the first time. Sometimes work, sometimes not. Today, i’m blocked. Yesterday everything good. I’ts not the first time it happens to me. Seems like a down server (?)

Expected behavior

Download new content of deb-get.json

Actual behavior

Error - can’t use deb-get.

Steps to reproduce

deb-get update deb-get upgrade

System information

Run the following a paste the output below:

/etc/os-release

PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="12"
VERSION="12 (bookworm)"
VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

deb-get version

0.3.8

deb-get update

  [+] Updating /etc/deb-get/01-main
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100  108k    0  108k    0     0   175k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  351k
  [+] Updating cache of supported apps in the background
  [+] Updating /var/cache/deb-get/deb-get.json
  [*] WARNING! Updating /var/cache/deb-get/deb-get.json failed.
  [*] WARNING! Cached file /var/cache/deb-get/deb-get.json is empty or missing.

Thank you for this must have tool. Sorry for reporting a trouble.

About this issue

Original URL
State: open
Created a year ago
Comments: 17 (9 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

I get it consistently too. initial setup is impossible without the DEBGET_TOKEN set either, it just sits there stuck. may be worth adding a warning that failing to set it will slow things down considerably or fail gracefully.

also, I have an extra error there:

❯ deb-get update
  [+] Updating /etc/deb-get/01-main
tail: cannot open '/01-main.repo' for reading: No such file or directory
No URLs found in /01-main.repo.tmp.
  [+] Updating /var/cache/deb-get/deb-get.json
  [+] Updating cache of supported apps in the background
  [*] WARNING! Updating /var/cache/deb-get/deb-get.json failed.
  [*] WARNING! Cached file /var/cache/deb-get/deb-get.json is empty or missing.

seems $ETC_DIR and $ELEVATE need to be exported before used in the subshell around lines 710-720. I’ll make a PR.

seefood on Jun 30, 2023

Thanks for the feedback.

It may be that you haven’t set up an API key for github - this is effectively required now that so many repos are supported unless you set a much longer cache retention time (e.g. export DEBGET_CACHE_RTN=240 - minutes, defaults to 60 ) and then repeat the update when you have refreshed the rate-limit allowance. (See https://github.com/wimpysworld/deb-get#github-api-rate-limits ) Another possibility is some temporary outage at github (I’ve seen a few of those either with github timing out or occasionally with a particular app being mid-workflow of a release and being temporarily “broken” until the release .deb asset is built) . In those cases a little patience and retry later is all I can suggest.

philclifford on Jun 28, 2023