You need to add the "universe" repository. As to how you do this -- I'd suggest asking on an Ubuntu forum -- this is an issue with your apt setup, not SpamAssassin itself.
--j. James Smith writes: > 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
