After having waited for the command to complete for hours, I saw that it hangs on all tox repositories.
I checked their main page and found out, that the whole infrastructure including repositories, wiki and main site moved to a different domain. That's why the old URL is not alive any more and why apt-get update
is timing out.
On their new wiki, they gave the following (slightly modified) script to install the actualized repository:
#!/bin/bash
sudo apt-key del 0C2E03A0
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb https://pkg.tox.chat/debian nightly main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tox.list'
wget -qO - https://pkg.tox.chat/debian/pub.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
sudo apt-get update
echo "Tox Repository Installed. You can now install qtox"
I executed those lines and now all problems with apt-get update
are gone!
Unfortunately, the new repository does only contain 64bit builds of qTox yet, so I will have to live with that package being hold back for a while, until they also compile it for 32bit machines!
WARNING: If you have 32bit qTox installed, do not install the new repository! It contains a 32bit qtox
package with higher version number than the last one available, so apt-get upgrade
will install it and replace your current qTox installation with that one, as soon as you run updates. But it is not a 32bit package, it just looks like one! Inside it contains 64bit executables!
For more information and a script to verify the package's true architecture without having to install it, see my Q&A here!
The last repository update fixed this and qTox is now available for both architectures again! :)
Best Answer
apt-listchanges is a package that does exactly what you describe:
This package has probably been installed on your system. If you don't want this behaviour, remove the package or change the configuration.