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Re: apt-get question



on Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 07:33:21AM +0530, Jijo Jose A (jijojose@sancharnet.in) wrote:
> hi all
> 
> i am trying to download packages from http://pandora.debian.org/debian-non-US/,
> using apt-setup, it update the packages lists and after it don't work with
> apt-get , the error occured like
> 
> apt-get -f install deity
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Package deity 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 deity has no installation candidate
> 
> this will repeat on all the pakages and other ftp & http sites!! 
> how can i tackle this ?

Odd.

I haven't used apt-setup, assume you've got yourself a standard
/etc/apt/sources.list file.  How about you post that here, particularly
if the following doesn't work.

Try running:

    $ apt-get update
    $ apt-get install deity

...any better?

Peace.

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