ckermit won't install

[Tom Smith]

Raymond Lillard wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 21:42 -0700, Tom Smith wrote:
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>>I'm trying to install ckermit in to Ubuntu 5.10. I've uncommented the
>>sources and configured preferences to allow this but apt* is unable to
>>locate ckermit, despite being able to locate other software in the same
>>Component (multiverse). Here are my config files:
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>I'm running Dapper and didn't find it, so I went to:
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>    http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck80.html#source
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>and built it from source.  I had to install the ncurses 
>package, but after that, it built OOTB.
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>Ray
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Yeah, I know I can do this. Their site offers binaries, as well. But I
want packages, when available, to be installed from .deb files--just
makes things easier where package management is concerned.

Thanks for your feedback.