Re: Can't find ntpdate (noob alert)
"Francois Lachance" <flachance@accesscomm.ca> writes:
> I want to keep my PC clock set to the right time based on a time server. I
> think that this should work, but I get the following:
>
> phoney:~# apt-get install ntpdate
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: Couldn't find package ntpdate
As you've probably noticed, 'apt-get install' is only useful if you
happen to know the exact name of the package you're looking for.
Maybe you want to get a listing of all of the NTP-related packages in
the Debian archive; I'd do this in aptitude, by typing 'l' to limit
the list of packages to '~dntp' ("whose description contains 'ntp'").
Unstable does happen to have an ntpdate package, but it's probably the
wrong thing. ntpdate will synchronize your time once, at boot time;
if your system is up for a while and your clock is off, your time will
gradually drift out of sync and it'll never get corrected. Consider
using the ntp-simple or chrony packages for more continuous
synchronization instead.
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