Problem installing with apt-get

[Scott Stevenson]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 09:57:19AM +0100, Reinhard Hnat wrote:
> I have an Ubuntu Server 8.04 and tried to install tomcat6 with the
> following result:
> 
> root at Mendelsson:/etc# apt-get install tomcat6
> Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig
> Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut
> Reading state information... Fertig
> E: Konnte Paket tomcat6 nicht finden   (means "could not find packet
> tomcat6")
> 
> Installing for example Java with the same procedure works perfectly.
> What could be the cause?

Do you have the necessary repository in /etc/sources/apt.list? tomcat6
(6.0.18-0ubuntu3.2~hardy1) is in the universe component of the backports
repository for 8.04 [1].

[1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy-backports/allpackages

-- 
Scott Stevenson <scott at ecubyx.com>
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