As pointed out by several Whisperback bug reports, it is not possible to install some packages in Tails neither using a canonical "apt-get install $package command" neither using Synaptics.
This affects only a small set of packages having dependencies on the ones that are marked with pin priority of -1 in /etc/apt/preferences. This was done to speed up the build I think. To install them you have to type `apt-get install $package/squeeze`. I noticed that a while ago but I failed to find use cases that would be important enough for Tails to care. Now I have one: intltool, that we use in our gettext workflow, depends on automake, which depends on autoconf, which depends on m4. And it is a legitimate use case of Tails to use it to translate Tails. So we might want to either: - Say this is a problem in general, and instead remove all those packages at the end of the build than setting them a -1 pin priority. - Review this list of packages on an ad-hoc basis. I'm ready to propose a branch to implement any of those options. Thoughts?
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