When I run apt-get install ssh (after first having run apt-get install update), I get an error message saying that there is no available version, but the package exists in the database. What's up with that?
# apt-get install ssh Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package ssh 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 E: Package ssh has no installation candidate my /etc/sources.list refers to: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian frozen non-free Thanks. --Miguel Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 02:31 PM 5/20/00 +0200, Sven Burgener wrote [in part]: > >>How do you set-up ssh to work? > > > >Assuming you have debian, run: > > > >for the client > ># apt-get update; apt-get install ssh > > > >and the daemon > ># apt-get update; apt-get install sshd > > Did you check this? According to "apt-cache search ssh" (running on potato), > there is no "sshd" package. My memory says that "ssh" installs both the > server (daemon) and the client of OpenSSH.
