[ale] HOW2 force the installation of a utililty that is "out of version" in Debian ?

[Courtney Thomas]

Preston,

More fully, I should have included the output from
    apt-get install pump

which is:
    "Package pump is not available, but is referred to by another package.
    This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is
available
    only from another source.
    Package pump has no installation candidate."

Also apt-get tries to access the sources.list but of course can't since my
NIC is inoperable without pump.

And again, I've put pump [previously functional Woody version] in
/var/cache/apt/archives before running
     apt-get install pump

Gratefully,
Courtney



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Preston Boyington" <preston.lists at gmail.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] HOW2 force the installation of a utililty that is "out of
version" in Debian ?


> Courtney Thomas wrote:
> <snipped>
> >
> > But when I: apt-get -f install jump, I just get a complaint
> > that..."package pump is not available", though it is in
> > /var/cache/apt/archives as jump-0.8.3-3_i386.deb.
> >
> > Guidance appreciated,
> >
> > Courtney
>
> Courtney, I don't immediately see "jump", by chance do you mean "pump"?
>
> the latest pump package i see is:
> Source package pump
>
>     * oldstable (base): 0.8.11-5
>       Binary packages: pump, pump-udeb
>
>     * stable (base): 0.8.21-2
>       Binary packages: pump
>
>     * testing (admin): 0.8.24-2
>       Binary packages: pump
>
>     * unstable (admin): 0.8.24-2
>       Binary packages: pump
>
> which would be installed "apt-get install pump"
> i usually do:
> apt-get update
> apt-get install <package> --dry-run (goes through all the motions of
> installing without actually doing so)
>
> then if all looks good i do the command again without the "--dry-run"
>
> apologies if i am mistaken...
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