Grokking Debian

[ted leslie]

i ran into something similar for another set of packages, and the
issue was just the naming,
that is it was referred  to as one name for the deps, but another for
the apt-get install (but in the end same package),
it may be the issue in your case. do a "apt-cache search" on key words
of package.


tl

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Dave Mason <dmason-bqArmZWzea/GcjXNFnLQ/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I've been programming for 40 years, teaching Computer Science for 30, doing Linux sysadmin since the early Slackware days (call it 15 years) and Unix admin for 10 years before that, but Debian continues to frustrate me, although I'm convinced it's "the right thing".
>
> My current challenge: I have the following sources.list:
>
> deb http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
> deb-src http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
> deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
> deb http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/debian-multimedia/ squeeze main
> deb-src http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/debian-multimedia/ squeeze main
>
> apt-get update gives no errors, 13 Get lines,
>
> and this page, http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/v4l-utils , describes the availability of v4l-utils in squeeze.
>
> But:
>
> : ~ ; sudo apt-get install v4l-utils
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Package v4l-utils is not available, but is referred to by another package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source
>
> E: Package 'v4l-utils' has no installation candidate
>
> *What* am I doing wrong?
>
> *sigh*
>
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