> apt-get install openoffice.org fails with:
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: Couldn't find package open
You either mis typed your email or pasted your message wrong. There is no
way I can tell that it would say "Couldn't find package open" if you typed
"apt-get install openoffice.org". I would expect it to say "Couldn't find
package openoffice.org" Are you sure you didnt accidently type apt-get
install open office.org?
> deb http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice/ woody
> main contrib
You do not want this if you are running unstable. Try replacing the word
woody with unstable. It is not a good idea to mix "versions" (imho)
> apt-get update seems to have worked.
>
> apt-get install openoffice.org failed again.
What happened when it failed?
> apt-get install emacs also fails with:
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Package emacs has no available version, but exists in the database.
> This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency
> and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the
> contents of sources.list. E: Package emacs has no installation
> candidate
There is no package called emacs, so of course it can't install it. :) I
believe they used to have a "dummy" package called emacs that pointed to a
specific version, but you really need to specify. I think that v21 is
what is in unstable so try "apt-get install emacs21" if that fails try
"apt-cache search editor|grep emacs" and find a suitable version. :)
-Derek
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