Re: Debian 3.1 (Sarge) mysql-doc-4.1 "E: Package mysql-doc-4.1 has no installation candidate"

["smsiebe@gmail.com" <smsiebe@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 21 August 2005 01:31 pm, David Christensen wrote:
> debian-user:
>
> I am having trouble installing mysql-doc-4.1 on Debian 3.1 (Sarge):
>
>     root@p166v:~# apt-get install mysql-doc-4.1
>     Reading Package Lists... Done
>     Building Dependency Tree... Done
>     Package mysql-doc-4.1 is not available, but is referred to by anothe
> r package.
>     This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is
>  only available from another source
>     E: Package mysql-doc-4.1 has no installation candidate
>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
> TIA,
>
> David

Hi David,

Are you sure the mirror/server(s) that you are downloading using apt-get has 
that file on it?  (/etc/apt/source.list)

I did a little recon on the Debian package lists (stable, testing, unstable, 
and experimental) but could not find that file, or a replacement to it on any 
of the lists.  The oldstable listing has a 3.x one, but I don't think your 
interested in that.

From here I searched my mirrors, other mirrors, and googled the file in search 
of an HTTP or FTP server to download the file from (at this point I didn't 
care if it was a .deb or not).  It seems that almost everyone has removed 
this package from their listings!  If you use the cached page you can see 
that it use to be there, but no longer.  Mysql.org searching and surfing 
gives similar results.

I apologize but the doc file has slipped through my fingers.  MySQL maintains 
(quite a nice) manual available from their website, perhaps you should 
download that.  You can download/view it as HTML or PDF, which is what I have 
used in the past.  I hope your using a box with a GUI =).

I would love to find out how somebody else managed to find this package, if 
they did, for my education.

steve