On Sat May 24 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > Should I have come here first > > and asked why I couldn't find a package > > In this particular case, yes, because this package should be available. > As a matter of fact, it should already be installed, because it is > required by debian-archive-keyring, which in turn is required by apt, > which is an essential package. Also, even if for some reason you cannot > find the package in your system, or in the repositories you are using, > gnupg is included in Debian, as can be seen by consulting > http://packages.debian.org/gnupg . > > So, in that case, if gnupg could not be found, then one should > investigate why it wasn't were it should be.
ok, why couldn't I find it?# cat sources.list deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian lenny main deb-src http://security.us.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb http://security.us.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free + deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ etch-backports main contrib non-free -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]