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Xandros and apt-get

Heya - n00b reporting for duty!

Ok, so i want to install 'amsn' but im having trouble... i type "apt-get install amsn" and it says

Code:

:/home/dylan# apt-get install amsn

Reading Package Lists... Done

Building Dependency Tree... Done

Package amsn has no available version, but exists in the database.

This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and

never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents

of sources.list

E: Package amsn has no installation candidate

is there a way to fix this? have i just got the name wrong or something?

Thanks in advance!

In Sid:
macondo@debian:~$ apt-cache search amsn

amsn - An MSN messenger written in tcl
macondo@debian:~$

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so, it is in the debian sid repositories, now Xandros is NOT Debian, it's a commercial clone based on it. Check with the Xandros boys in their forums, they should know what they got in the repositories.

thanks guys, all working now :)