Re: apt-get install stopped working

[Oivvio Polite <oivvio@polite.se>]

Found it. I'd shot myself in the foot be adding a 
 /etc/apt/preferences
when I wanted to mix sid and woody and then I didn't remove when
I got tired of the mix.

o

On Sunday 02 September 2001 12:43, oivvio polite wrote:
> apt-get install on my woody system has stopped working.
>
> I can reinstall already installed packages but can not install
> any new packages. Whenever I run "apt-get install" I get a response
> like the following:
>
>  apt-get install saytime
>  Reading Package Lists... Done
>  Building Dependency Tree... Done
>  Package saytime 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 saytime has no installation candidate
>
> I've tried "apt-get clean" and "apt-get update". I've scrutinized the lines
> in sources.list and even tried alternate sites. Downloading the packages
> from the sites in sources.list and installing them with dpkg works fine.
>
> Does any one recognize this?
>
> op

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