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Re: ntp ha no installation candidate (woody)



This one time, at band camp, will trillich said:
> after revisiting the longest-thread-of-the-millennium again, i
> thought i'd be a good citizen and get ntpd going instead of
> ntpdate.
> 
> 	root: /mnt# apt-get install ntpd
> 	Reading Package Lists... Done
> 	Building Dependency Tree... Done
> 	Package ntpd 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 ntpd has no installation candidate
> 
> odd! (suggestions welcome.)

steve@hadrian:~$ apt-cache show ntp
Package: ntp
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 428
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
<snip>

HTH,
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