--- Bruce Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have now succesfully installed debian a second > time with DHCP. =) > The first thing I wanted to install was emacs and I > tried this command as > root: > apt-get install emacs > > And I got the follwing error: > ------------------------------------------------- > E: Package emacs has no installation candidate > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > Package emacs has no available version, but exists > in the database. > This typically means that the package was mentioned > in a dependency and > never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not > available with the contents > of sources.list > -------------------------------------------------- > > The first thing I thought was that maybe the package > name was wrong. Is > there a simple way to view all the packages say via > a file? If there were > such a file, then I could pipe the result to grep > and get the package name > rather easily. > Second, I was thinking of running like an apt-get > upgrade or something along > those lines. Because I just installed debian, I'm > really new to this so I > don't know what needs to be done in order for > everything to work. > As always, all help is greatly appreciated. > > bp > To search for a specific package you can do a apt-cache search <packagename> Or you do a dpkg --list |more that will list all of the packages that you have one page at a time. HTH's Don
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