Simmons-Davis wrote: > > Hello, > > My question now is: how do I get Communicator on my sytem in order to run > "apt-get install communicator"? Currently when I try to run it it sends back > the response: > > "Package communicator has no available version, but exits in the database. > This typically means 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 communicator has no istallation candidate" > > I have the Debian official 6 cd set and have all of them included in dselect > (or apt or whatever the base is) from the istallation of Debian when it > asked for cds to scan. I'm pretty sure that communicator is not included on > any of those cds and so am thinking that I have to download it first via ftp > from the Debian ftp archives. Which package would I actually download from > there (for "communicator") and then how do I get it included in the > "sources.list".
Add these after the CD entries as it will look at the CD first. # standard - install generated deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ potato main non-free contrib deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ potato main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free # security deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates main contrib non-free Eric :-)