Problem installing with apt-get

[Colin Law]

On 13 January 2011 10:00, Reinhard Hnat <hnat at logotronic.co.at> wrote:
> Am 2011-01-13 10:24, schrieb 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
>>
> I found this two lines in apt.list:
>  deb http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main restricted
> universe multiverse
>  deb-src http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main
> restricted universe multiverse
> uncommenting it did not change anything.

Did you remember to do
sudo apt-get update
after uncommenting?

Colin