apt wont install a single package
I am very frustrted. I have not been able to install a single program using apt. I tried to install gaim, one of many packages. Here is the output.
-su-2.05b# apt-get install gaim Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Note, selecting gaim-gnome instead of gaim Package gaim-gnome is a virtual package provided by: You should explicitly select one to install. E: Package gaim-gnome has no installation candidate Here is a copy of my sources.list file -su-2.05b# cat sources.list #deb http://penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/i386 ./ #deb http://people.debian.org/~fpeters/gnome2.4/ ./ deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib #deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib # deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free what the heck am i doing wrong??? I know there was an attack on Debians site and that packages.debian.org is down. Does that have anything to do with this insanity. As you can assume, i am new to debian, however i have used apt many times before with RH and Suse. |
try
apt-cache search gaim it should give you a list of packages concerning gaim. Maybe just type the correct name Have you done apt-get update before? |
i have done apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade several times, and with different sources as well. Every time i do that, it tells me there are no packages to upgrade, or that i need dependencies, but it doesnt download them. It was my understanding that apt would download and install your dependencies if you need them.
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yes, it is apt's usual behavior. Sometimes it isn' t though.
have you tried apt-get install gaim-gnome? or apt-cache search gaim? |
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