Thanks for the replies, Jacob and HTH! Your answers caused me to poke around further. It looks like apt and apt-get both work the same in debian.
My problem was that I wasn't running "apt update" first. (Sigh.) Running update and then the install and it works fine. (Huzzah!) Thanks again! $ docker run -it python:3 /bin/bash root@fa0b1041fdd9:/# apt update Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease [122 kB] Get:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease [65.4 kB] Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease [49.3 kB] Get:4 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates/main amd64 Packages [177 kB] Get:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages [7907 kB] Get:6 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates/main amd64 Packages [5792 B] Fetched 8326 kB in 2s (3976 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 29 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them. root@fa0b1041fdd9:/# apt install ledger Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: libboost-filesystem1.67.0 libboost-iostreams1.67.0 libboost-python1.67.0 libboost-regex1.67.0 libboost-system1.67.0 libpython2.7 Suggested packages: elpa-ledger python-ledger The following NEW packages will be installed: ledger libboost-filesystem1.67.0 libboost-iostreams1.67.0 libboost-python1.67.0 libboost-regex1.67.0 libboost-system1.67.0 libpython2.7 0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 29 not upgraded. Need to get 4657 kB of archives. After this operation, 23.4 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y (and so on...) On Monday, February 17, 2020 at 5:06:45 PM UTC-6, Scott Carpenter wrote: > > I'm trying on a couple of docker images and getting, for example with > Debian: > > root@4be055ba3998:/# apt-get install ledger > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > E: Unable to locate package ledger > > Thank you! > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/293a5013-0470-448a-be0e-e378568b7fc3%40googlegroups.com.
