Re: apt-get problems

Jon,
When Apt reports that a package does not exist sometimes it's just a
matter of searching for how the package was named.
apt-cache search packagename (or part of packagename)

        # apt-cache search atm* | grep "fink"
battfink - GNOME Power Management Configuration

Sometimes it depends on which repo your pointed at. Is it a Debian
testing box? Unstable?...
I sometime change my sources.list to point at whichever (testing,
unstable) has the package I need.

I find that Debian sometimes names thier packages a little different
than most. It's a developers thing...

TJ

On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 13:24, Jon Reynolds wrote:

> I am trying to use apt-get and am having some problems and was wondering if
> someone could tell me what I need to do or modify. I am typing this string in
> the console:
>
> apt-get install realpath atm-dev libpcap-dev libgmp3-dev libgd-dev libnewt-dev
>
> and
>
> apt-get install gcc-2.95 cpp-2.95 libstdc++2.10-dev libg++2.8.1.3-dev
>
>
>
> I keep getting this error:
>
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: Couldn't find package atm-dev
>
> I get this with multiple packages I am trying to download, what do I need to do
> to fix this?
>
> Jon
>
>
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Received on Wed Jul 14 14:48:35 2004