It's because icewm is available, but not as a precompiled binary.  Check
out

http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#bindist

On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 08:12, Michael Olberg wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am new to 'fink' and have so far installed only the bare essentials, 
> like fink itself and the X11 base package with the twm window manager. I 
> wanted to install the 'icewm' window manager and tried the following:
> 
>  > sudo apt-get install icewm
> Password:
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Package icewm 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 icewm has no installation candidate
> 
> What does this mean? Obviously there is a package called 'icewm', do I 
> need to give a version number?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Michael
> 
> 
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