Re: apt after installation
--- Bruce Park <bpark79@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
> -------------------------------------------------
> 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
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> 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
>
To search for a specific package you can do a
apt-cache search <packagename>
Or you do a dpkg --list |more that will list all of
the packages that you have one page at a time.
HTH's
Don
__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now.
http://mailplus.yahoo.com
Reply to: