Re: apt error

[Shawn Lamson <shawn.lamson@verizon.net>]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:47:17 -0500
"Bruce Park" <bpark79@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hello debian users,
> 
> I'm currenty experiencing some difficulty in trying to install 'aktion' from 
> KDE. Here's what happens:
> bash$ apt-get install aktion
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> Package aktion 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: Packagae aktion has no installation candidate
> 
> I'd install the entire multimedia package but I despise having software that 
> I never use. I picked aktion for a movie player. Any help or suggestion is 
> greatly appreciated.
> 
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When that happens to me i usually do apt-cache search aktion | grep aktion to see what package contains it; if you are stuck with the whole multimedia package and you don't want it then you will have to resort to finding just aktion (google aktion) and compiling from source.  I recommend mplayer for movies.

HTH

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Shawn Lamson
shawn.lamson@verizon.net
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0