Wow! Root should have permission to edit anything it wants.
Are you sure you were root?
What editor are you using?
What steps are you taking to get to opening /etc/apt/sources.list in
your editor and how are you saving and closing it?
On 26 Nov 00, at 12:05, David Kehoe wrote:
> How did you edit the sources list file? I tried and didn't have
> permissions as root.
>
> DK
>
> Alan Todd wrote:
> >
> > i was getting that error as well -- i had to look at the sources list and
> > saw all the ftp sources were commented out --
> > i uncommented them - apt-get update -
> > then installed
> > worked just fine for me
> >
> > Alan Todd
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David
> > Kehoe
> > Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 11:48 PM
> > To: Stormix User List
> > Subject: [SLU] Trouble installing SSH
> >
> > Okay, I tried using 'apt-get install ssh' and got the following error:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > I have not made any modifications to a 2.05 install at this point. Is
> > there something I am doing wrong, or leaving out?
> >
> > --
> > David Kehoe
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