Well, I don't know, but it wasn't available for me. In previous posts to this list you can see what my sources.list contained, it wasn't missing anything. But in aptitude I couldn't find it. I didn't try the apt-cache command because I try to stick to aptitude, but from what I understand the search feature in aptitude does the same thing.
I'm assuming the packages website at debian.org is somehow dynamically connected to the sources, which would mean that it was dropped for one reason or another (accidentally perhaps). I'm not an expert on how apt works, but I'm under the impression that as you install things the deb files are saved to your computer, as well as the lists of packages. Perhaps if you had installed firestarter on testing prior to it being dropped, even though it's not on the sources it still appears in your cache because the deb files are on your local machine. All speculation of course, I'd be interested to hear what the packages maintainers say. Either way, I'm just happy I got it working. And hopefully this thread can help others in a similar situation, or to simply install packages from unstable that arn't available to anyone in testing. Ben On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:48:05 -0500, John Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After a lot of reading, the problem is solved. I'm running > > firestarter on Sarge and it works great :) > > > > I read through Chapter 6 of the Debian Reference manual, > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference.en.html. I > > created the file /etc/apt/prefences and placed the following in it: > > What am I missing? Firestarter -IS- in Sarge: > Luke:~# apt-cache search firestarter > firestarter - gtk program for managing and observing your firewall > Luke:~# > > I do notice that it's not listed in the testing package list on the Debian > website, but in fact, it IS available. No need for all the special > arrangements to get it from unstable. Works great too! - John > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
