Re: apt database problems?
Hi,
It seems I must have posted this to the wrong list. Don't suppose
anyone could point me in the right direction?
Many thanks,
Simon.
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 02:48:50PM +0100, Simon Young wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I have recently installed woody, and everything is going fine except
> for one small problem; I'd like to use LVM (in conjunction with
> reiserfs), but I'm having trouble installing the required packages.
>
> Under potato, I would have just patched the kernel for lvm and done a
> apt-get install lvm to install the required tools.
>
> Under woody, it seems I have to apt-get install lvm-common, then
> install one of lvm5, lvm6 or lvm10 - depending on the kernel version.
>
> I can install lvm-common without a hitch, but the problem comes
> whenever I try and install lvm5. I get this:
>
> # apt-get install lvm5
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Package lvm5 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 lvm5 has no installation candidate
>
> The mirror I am using is www.uk.debian.org
>
> Does anyone know where I can find the lvm5 package, or why these
> packages are not where they ought to be?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Simon.
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