apt-get question

[Frank Grimm <fgr@micenet.de>]

Hello,

Since the potato release i am using apt-get instead of dpkg, but 
some apt-get isn't able to work with some .deps (e.g. aalib, gimp) is
exists with the error message:

$ apt-get install aalib1

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package aalib1 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 aalib1 has no installation candidate

But when I use "apt-cache showpkg aalib1", aalib1 seams to be cached.

And dpkg -i ...aalib1... works fine.

Any hints?
Thanks,
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