Grokking Debian

[Dave Mason]

(I sent this days ago, but from the wrong address.  *sigh*)

OK, things are worse than I thought.  I get the same result (exactly, modulo package name) with, e.g. cruft, gcj, firefox, gnome, just to choose some random packages.... it suggests that debian on my system is fairly borked.

Any ideas?

TIA, ../Dave

>> : ~ ; 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
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