<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Brad Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: I am trying to install slrn with apt-get install slrn but I keep getting the
>: following message:
>
>: Reading Package Lists... Done
>: Building Dependency Tree... Done
>: Package slrn has no available version, but exists in the database.
>: This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
>: never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
>: of sources.list
>: E: Package slrn has no installation candidate
>:  Could someone give me an idea what is wrong. I am running Woody and up to
>: this point I have not had any problem with apt-get
>
>Because it is not there "slrn-ja" is, but no "slrn." 
>"slrn" seems to exist only in stable.

It does *seem* to be in testing and unstable ...

  slrn | 0.9.6.2-10 |      unstable | hurd-i386
  slrn |  0.9.6.2-7 |        stable | alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc
  slrn | 0.9.6.2-9potato1 | proposed-updates | arm, i386, sparc
  slrn | 0.9.6.3-11 |      unstable | m68k, powerpc
  slrn | 0.9.6.3-13 |      unstable | alpha, arm, mips, sparc
  slrn | 0.9.6.3-14 |      unstable | i386
  slrn |  0.9.6.3-4 |       testing | alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc

What does your /etc/apt/sources.list look like?

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Colin Watson                                     [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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