apt after installation
Hello all,
I have now succesfully installed debian a second time with DHCP. =)
The first thing I wanted to install was emacs and I tried this command as
root:
apt-get install emacs
And I got the follwing error:
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E: Package emacs has no installation candidate
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Package emacs 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
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The first thing I thought was that maybe the package name was wrong. Is
there a simple way to view all the packages say via a file? If there were
such a file, then I could pipe the result to grep and get the package name
rather easily.
Second, I was thinking of running like an apt-get upgrade or something along
those lines. Because I just installed debian, I'm really new to this so I
don't know what needs to be done in order for everything to work.
As always, all help is greatly appreciated.
bp
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