Re: aptitude says no install candidate for xulrunner but apt-cache search shows xulrunner = WTF?! (lenny)

[Tony Baldwin <photodharma@gmail.com>]

Ai...sorry.

I DO have xulrunner installed (which is why aptitude won't do anything).
The problem must be with the program I'm trying to install, that is 
telling me that I don't have xulrunner.
I have contacted the author of said program for support.
You may disregard the previous post.

My bad....

/tony

Anthony Baldwin wrote:
> I need xulrunner.
>
> I get
>
> apt-cache search xulrunner
> conkeror - keyboard focused web browser with Emacs look and feel
> conkeror-spawn-process-helper - spawn external processes in Conkeror
> iceape-dev - Development files for the Iceape Internet Suite
> liferea - feed aggregator for GNOME
> liferea-xulrunner - transitional dummy package
> totem-mozilla - Totem Mozilla plugin
> xulrunner-1.9 - XUL + XPCOM application runner
> xulrunner-1.9-dbg - Development files for the Gecko engine library
> xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support - Support for GNOME in xulrunner applications
> xulrunner-dev - Development files for the Gecko engine library
>
>
> but sudo aptitude install xulrunner gives:
> No candidate version found for xulrunner
> No candidate version found for xulrunner
> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
>
> If I try sudo aptitude install xulrunner-1.9, I get:
> $ sudo aptitude install xulrunner-1.9
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>
> I don't get it.
> apt-cache shows the package exists, but aptitude says it doesn't...
>
> What's to be done?
>
> Thanks,
> Tony


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