Re: What/Where is ssh?

[Barry Kauler <bkauler@cowan.edu.au>]

On Mon, 07 Jun 1999, Kent West wrote:
> And, where is it? I've got my apt sources.list pointing to stable main
> contrib non-free, but "apt-get install ssh" returns a message that "ssh
> is mentioned in the database but there's no installation candidate,
> which probably means the package is obsolete" (summarized).

What does the message "no installation candidate" actually mean?
I've got that sometimes when I've tried to install a package, and
I've had no idea what to do about it.

Regards,