Paul Cartwright wrote: > 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
Well, what does it say if you run apt-get update, then apt-get install gnupg? Note also errors or anything else in the first command. What about apt-cache policy gnupg? -- My doctorate's in Literature, but it seems like a pretty good pulse to me. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://move.to/hpkb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
