Alexander Hansen-2 wrote:
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> On 1/12/10 10:15 PM, toutenhoofd wrote:
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>> I'm a self-admitted beginner here.
>>
>> every time I run:
>> sudo apt-get install [anything]
>> I get:
>> E: Couldn't find package [anything]
>>
>> So for example:
>> sudo apt-get install wget
>> Reading Package Lists... Done
>> Building Dependency Tree... Done
>> E: Couldn't find package wget
>>
>> And I've updated like this:
>> sudo apt-get update
>> Reading Package Lists... Done
>> Building Dependency Tree... Done
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. I feel like I've got a mirror
>> configured incorrectly, or something...
>> Thanks.
>
> What OS version are you on? (we're not mind-readers here, and you
> haven't sent us a login and password to your box to check your system)
>
> If you're on 10.6 there's *no* official binary distribution, and so
> apt-get isn't going to know about anything other than packages you have
> build on your machine via "fink install".
>
> There is an unofficial binary distribution for 10.6 (meaning that the
> project doesn't control the server):
>
> http://finkers.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/fink-and-binary-distributions/
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> but it's not comprehensive. You're really going to need to use "fink
> install" for the most part. Remember that Fink Is Not Kubuntu.
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> Alexander Hansen
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Thanks for the reply. I'm indeed on 10.6 and I installed Fink from source,
according to the instructions here:
http://www.finkproject.org/download/srcdist.php
It all seemed to install fine, and I ran selfupdate without a problem.
Is there a way to run apt-get install with more verbose output? I can't
figure out why it can't find any packages.
Thanks!
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