add/remove software

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Sun Jan 21 17:31:46 UTC 2007


Oliver Grawert wrote:

> hi,
> On Sa, 2007-01-20 at 22:50 -0500, Erik Schmidt wrote:
>> here's the error I get
>> 
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> Package libc6-dev 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
>> However the following packages replace it:
>>   libdb2-dev
>> E: Package libc6-dev has no installation candidate
> 
> did you disable "main" in your repositories ? that could probably have
> such an effect ...

Right!  I was thinking that "no installation candidate" was odd.  He has
universe enabled because he got libdb2-dev, but I suspect he _changed_ main
to universe rather than added it.
-- 
derek





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