Re: "Joe" editor

[Mark Simos <MSimos@POBox.com>]

I noticed that when I did a bare install on my machine with floppies, it had all of the
sources commented out in my sources.list by defualt.

Being new to debian, it threw me for a day or two until some nice people on this list
directed me to fix that file and then do an apt-get update

Mark

Antonio Rodriguez wrote:

> Do apt-get update first, so that it loads all available packages. Make sure first that
> you have all needed entries in your sources.list for apt-get.
>
> Adrian Nims wrote:
>
> > The command "apt-get install joe" gave me the follwing answer:
> >
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > E: Couldn't find package joe
> >
> > What can I do next ?
> >
> >                                         Adrian Nims
> >
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