I noticed that when I did a bare install on my machine with floppies, it had all of the sources commented out in my sources.list by defualt.
Being new to debian, it threw me for a day or two until some nice people on this list directed me to fix that file and then do an apt-get update Mark Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Do apt-get update first, so that it loads all available packages. Make sure > first that > you have all needed entries in your sources.list for apt-get. > > Adrian Nims wrote: > > > The command "apt-get install joe" gave me the follwing answer: > > > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > E: Couldn't find package joe > > > > What can I do next ? > > > > Adrian Nims > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Mark Anthony Simos, MCSE Poet, Playwright, Swing Dancer
