I need to get spamassasin installed and working on Ubuntu with VHCS. I have googled this and found a tutorial or two all of which start with the same line...
apt-get install clamav clamav-daemon amavisd-new spamassassin Unfortunately this bombes out immediately with the error... ------------------------------------------------------ Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Package clamav is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source W: Couldn't stat source package list cdrom://Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Release i386 (20051012) breezy/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/Ubuntu%205.10%20%5fBreezy%20Badger%5f%20-%20Release%20i3 86%20(20051012)_dists_breezy_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list cdrom://Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Release i386 (20051012) breezy/restricted Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/Ubuntu%205.10%20%5fBreezy%20Badger%5f%20-%20Release%20i3 86%20(20051012)_dists_breezy_restricted_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems E: Package clamav has no installation candidate ------------------------------------------------------ Skipping clamav and using "apt-get install spamassassin" instead gives ------------------------------------------------------ Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Package spamassassin is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source W: Couldn't stat source package list cdrom://Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Release i386 (20051012) breezy/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/Ubuntu%205.10%20%5fBreezy%20Badger%5f%20-%20Release%20i3 86%20(20051012)_dists_breezy_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list cdrom://Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Release i386 (20051012) breezy/restricted Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/Ubuntu%205.10%20%5fBreezy%20Badger%5f%20-%20Release%20i3 86%20(20051012)_dists_breezy_restricted_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems E: Package spamassassin has no installation candidate ------------------------------------------------------ Trying "apt-get update" downloads a few files (the biggest of which is only 40k) and then fails with a similar error ------------------------------------------------------ W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. ------------------------------------------------------ Does anyone have any ideas how to solve this? -- James Smith
