apt-get failing to find upgrades

[David M. Carney]

On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 16:54:41 -0500, David Coventry <dc at davec.uklinux.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a reasonably experienced linux user having started with SUSe some
> years back, and ended up with Ubuntu by way of Mandrake 6, Corel Linux,
> Gentoo and Knoppix, so I know my way around apt-get.
> 
> However, on my install of Ubuntu, apt-get fails.
> 
> I have used apt-spy to get mirrors, but am no closer to installing
> anything on my system.
> 
> I have tried (for example) to install wine.
> 
> The error message I get is 'E: Package wine has no installation candidate'
> 
> Also 'W: You might want to run apt-get update to correct these problems'
> 
> Replacing the original sources.list file (AFTER uncommenting out all the
> entries: what's the matter; are you deliberately laying down gotchas?),
> well that still produced the same errors.
> 
> Dave
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Have you uncommented the "Universe" repository in your apt sources list?

David

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