[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kumar Appaiah wrote:
On my system, apt-cache show emacs-dl-wn gives me black, install says
that package is unavailable.
Thanks for your response! I'm still puzzled. What's this "ghost"
package, then? The "mplayer" package seems to be another example.
If they are unavailable, then why do they show up when you type
$ aptitude search mplayer
for example. What does this mean?
It means that there is no such package but that something depends or
conflicts with the package. These packages are just referenced by others
even though they arent in the archive. This happens for a variety of
reasons.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache showpkg mplayer
Package: mplayer
Versions:
Reverse Depends:
xmms-xmmplayer,mplayer
mozilla-mplayer,mplayer 1.0-pre5
Dependencies:
Provides:
Reverse Provides:
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