Grokking Debian

[Thomas Milne]

Of course after this you run 'aptitude update'... or 'apt-get update'
whichever you prefer :-)

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Thomas Milne
<tbrucemilne-TcoXwbchSccMMYnvST3LeUB+6BGkLq7r at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I have also had problems in the past, it was always just bad repos.
> Try these in your sources.list (replace 'testing with 'squeeze' if you
> wish):
>
> deb http://debian.mirror.iweb.ca/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://debian.mirror.iweb.ca/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib
>
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main
> deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main
>
> This works flawlessly for me.
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Dave Mason <dmason-bqArmZWzea/GcjXNFnLQ/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> (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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