Re: What/Where is ssh?
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 06:33:27PM +0800, Barry Kauler wrote:
> 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 which probably means the package is obsolete" (summarized).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.
I think it means that APT knows that the package used to exist,
but it doesn't any more. Hence there is no installation candidate.
Hamish
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