g77-3.4, ubuntu 7.10

[Peter Garrett]

On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 10:42:07 -0700 (PDT)
Dorita Rostkier-Edelstein <drostkier at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Package gfortran 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
> E: Package gfortran has no installation candidate

Do you have the universe repository enabled?

Even here on Feisty the gfortran packages are available:

 apt-cache policy gfortran
gfortran:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 4:4.1.2-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
     4:4.1.2-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://mirror.pacific.net.au feisty/universe Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Packages

$ apt-cache search gfortran
gfortran - The GNU Fortran 95 compiler
gfortran-4.1 - The GNU Fortran 95 compiler
gfortran-4.1-doc - Documentation for the GNU Fortran compiler (gfortran)
gfortran-doc - Documentation for the GNU Fortran compiler (gfortran)
lib64gfortran1 - Runtime library for GNU Fortran applications (64bit)
libgfortran1 - Runtime library for GNU Fortran applications
libgfortran1-dev - GNU Fortran library development


Peter

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