Re: apt trouble

[Seneca <seneca-cunningham@rogers.com>]

On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:13:48PM +0530, Sukrit wrote:
> i am trying to get some packages of the unstable tree. So added
> following line to my source.list
> 
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
> 
> Then did a "apt-get update".
> 
> apt gets it's files from the server, everything is well. Database is updated.
> 
> Now if i try and install something, like
> apt-get -t unstable install gkrellm2
> [gkrellm2 is there in the unstable tree, i checked with other files too
> like libc6 etc]
> 
> i get an error couldn't find pacakge?
> What am i doing wrong?

You forgot to add a main line, such as:

  deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

Also, you might want to install gkrellm instead of gkrellm2; gkrellm2 is
at 2.1.3-1 and gkrellm is at 2.1.7-1.

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