<[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? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]