On Feb 19, 2004, at 3:00 PM, Derek Coller wrote:
Here's the result I got from the "sudo apt-get install wget" command on this other computer. Note - another user is using that machine as the main user.
Now, I've not used apt-get before. Are there steps I need to take before trying this (as suggested below, apt-get update)
<AKH> You definitely need to use "sudo apt-get update" first
seamktm50746:~ jkortegard$ sudo apt-get install wget
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package wget 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
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/main Packages (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/ us.dl.sourceforge.net_fink_direct%5fdownload_dists_10.3_release_main_bi nary-darwin-powerpc_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/crypto Packages (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/ us.dl.sourceforge.net_fink_direct%5fdownload_dists_10.3_release_crypto_ binary-darwin-powerpc_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/current/main Packages (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/ us.dl.sourceforge.net_fink_direct%5fdownload_dists_10.3_current_main_bi nary-darwin-powerpc_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/current/crypto Packages (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/ us.dl.sourceforge.net_fink_direct%5fdownload_dists_10.3_current_crypto_ binary-darwin-powerpc_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/main Packages (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/ us.dl.sourceforge.net_fink_direct%5fdownload_dists_10.3_release_main_bi nary-darwin-powerpc_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/crypto Packages (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/ us.dl.sourceforge.net_fink_direct%5fdownload_dists_10.3_release_crypto_ binary-darwin-powerpc_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/current/main Packages (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/ us.dl.sourceforge.net_fink_direct%5fdownload_dists_10.3_current_main_bi nary-darwin-powerpc_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/current/crypto Packages (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/ us.dl.sourceforge.net_fink_direct%5fdownload_dists_10.3_current_crypto_ binary-darwin-powerpc_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Package wget has no installation candidate
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