Re: Could not find nfs package

[Owen Townend <bowbowbow@optushome.com.au>]

On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 11:25 +1100, hce wrote:
> Thanks Owen. To run nfs server, should I install both nfs-common and
> nfs-user-server, or just nfs-common?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Jim
> 
> On 11/5/07, Owen Townend <bowbowbow@optushome.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 11:04 +1100, hce wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I got an error "E: Couldn't find package nfs" while trying to install
> > > nfs server by calling "apt-get install nfs". Is the nfs wrong nfs
> > > server package name?
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> > > Jim
> > >
> > >
> > Hey,
> >   Try `apt-cache search nfs`
> >   It should return the correct package names.
> >   One of these is probably what you're after:
> >
> > nfs-common - NFS support files common to client and server
> > nfs-kernel-server - support for NFS kernel server
> > nfs-user-server - User space NFS server
> >
> >
> > cheers,
> > Owen.
> >
> >
> 
> 

Hey,
  nfs-kernel-server depends on nfs-common but I don't believe the
userspace server does. Running `apt-get install nfs-user-server` will
tell you of the dependancies and resolve them if it can. You can also
use `apt-cache depend nfs-user-server` to find out.

cheers,
Owen.