Installing with apt-get

[Matthew Nicholson]

thunderbird is just that, only referred to by another package. in this
case, its 'mozilla-thunderbird' your looking for.

sudo apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird

give that a try.

and you can search via commmand line with 

apt-cache search "search string" 


On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 20:11 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Anything I try to install with apt-get I get this error:
> dotancohen at ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install thunderbird
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Package thunderbird is not available, but is referred to by another package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source
> E: Package thunderbird has no installation candidate
> dotancohen at ubuntu:~$
> 
> This is my /etc/apt/sources.list with irrelevant comments removed:
> 
> deb cdrom:[Kubuntu 6.06 _Dapper Drake_ - Release i386 (20060531)]/
> dapper main restricted
> deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 6.06 _Dapper Drake_ - Release i386 (20060531)]/
> dapper main restricted
> 
> deb http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
> deb-src http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
> 
> deb http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted
> deb-src http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted
> 
> ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
> ## repository.
> deb http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
> deb-src http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
> 
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
> 
> # Ubuntu supported packages (packages, GPG key: 437D05B5)
> deb http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted
> deb http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
> 
> # Ubuntu supported packages (sources, GPG key: 437D05B5)
> deb-src http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted
> deb-src http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted
> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
> 
> # Ubuntu community supported packages (packages, GPG key: 437D05B5)
> deb http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe multiverse
> deb http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates universe multiverse
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe multiverse
> 
> # Ubuntu community supported packages (sources, GPG key: 437D05B5)
> deb-src http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe multiverse
> deb-src http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates universe multiverse
> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe multiverse
> 
> And I did of course run "apt-get update". What is the problem?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Dotan Cohen
> 
> 
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