Re: apt-get problem-solved

[Dale Morris <dlm@well.com>]

I think I may have solved the problem.. at least everything is
upgrading properly now. 
Apparently I had commented out some src files in my
/etc/apt/sources.conf file and this wouldn't allow certain package
dependencies to me be met. 

Dale Morris (dlm@well.com) wrote:
> I've screwed around with apt-get and dselect so much that whenever I try
> to install a package I get the following message:
> 
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> yossarian:/home/dlm# apt-get install eterm
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Package [eterm] 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 eterm has no installation candidate
>