Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: minor # apt-get install stunnel Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package stunnel 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 E: Package stunnel has no installation candidate
I feel this message is unuseful: people who understand what's gone wrong can solve the problem without it, and people who don't understand aren't helped by it. Particularly, the phrases "has no available version, but exists" and "not available with the contents of sources.list" are both quite opaque in their meaning. Perhaps some form of words saying that the package cannot be found in any of the places listed in /etc/apt/sources.list , and pointing at the documentation concerning how to choose new things to put there, would be more helpful? -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux daryl 2.4.20 #2 Thu May 15 21:35:30 BST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-7 The GNU stdc++ library
