On Oct 26, 2004, at 5:46 AM, Holger Schulz wrote:
Am 22.10.2004 um 18:04 schrieb Alexander K. Hansen:
On Oct 22, 2004, at 4:33 AM, Holger Schulz wrote:
I tried to install mplayer via
sudo apt-get install mplayer
and received
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package mplayer 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
However the following packages replace it:
mplayer-skin-midnight-love mplayer-skin-default mplayer-skin-blue-small mplayer-skin-blue mplayer-skin-avifile mplayer-font-arial-iso-8859-1
E: Package mplayer has no installation candidate
AFAIU that means, actually there's no mplayer. Why not remove it from the list?
hs
I don't think it's a problem on the remote end--I believe this means that you once had mplayer installed.
With respect, the message says something different AFAIU. It says, mplayer had no available version, was possibly not uploaded. If that's wrong, the message could be more explizit and less open source like.
Can that be changed?
Thanks
hs
I'm pretty sure I've seen that message under the circumstances I've mentioned. It's from dpkg, so I've seen it in Debian as well as on Fink.
-- Alexander Hansen Fink Documentarian [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
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