Re: access to non-free from aptitude (continued)?

[Heddle Weaver <weaver2world@gmail.com>]

On 13 May 2011 01:38, Charles Blair <c-blair@illinois.edu> wrote:

  [Sorry, I'm using claws-mail and it doesn't seem to let
me post follow-ups]

     Thanks to everyone for the prompt responses, but I still have
a problem.  My /etc/apt/sources.list includes

> deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

  I tried typing "aptitude update".  Part of the output:

> Ign http://debian.uchicago.edu lenny/non-free Translation-en_US
> Ign http://debian.uchicago.edu lenny/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
> Hit http://debian.uchicago.edu lenny/non-free Packages

  However, when I start aptitude, click on "not installed
packages," then on "editors," the only thing I see is main.

  Is there an aptitude tutorial someplace?  I suspect there
are a lot of basic things I don't know.

There's a package in the repositories (in main) called aptitude-doc-en, I think from memory.
You could check that be searching through the ncurses aptitude interface.
Regards,

Weaver.

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