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Re: [trinity-users] HOW To configure in order to use apt-get ?

From: Lisi <lisi.reisz@...>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:36:40 +0100
On Wednesday 24 August 2011 12:31:14 daniele.manghi@... wrote:
> Good morning.Now that I can setup a mobile connection, i want to use it
> todownload packages. However, no matter which I try to installusing
> apt-get, I always get the same error message. For instance,trying to
> install alien produce the following :---------------------------
> manghi@silverblack:~$ sudo apt-get install alien
> Lettura elenco dei pacchetti... Fatto
> Generazione albero delle dipendenze
> Lettura informazioni sullo stato... Fatto
> Il pacchetto alien non ha versioni disponibili, ma � nominato da un altro
> pacchetto. Questo pu� significare che il pacchetto � mancante, � obsoleto
> oppure � disponibile solo all'interno di un'altra sorgente
>
> E: Il pacchetto "alien" non ha candidati da installare
> manghi@silverblack:~$   --------------------------------------That is :no
> available versions for alien package. It is named by a different package.
> Thiscould mean that it doesn't exist, or that it is obsolete, or that it is
> provided onlyby a different source. But : what does it mean ? What I should
> do ?ThanksDaniele Manghi

What have you got in your sources.list?

Lisi