apt-get install ncftp (failed)

When running
apt-get install ncftp

Package ncftp 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 ncftp has no installation candidate


My Sources.list is

deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian lenny contrib main
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib


I need ncftp to create mysql backups so i hope someone can help me out on this matter.

 

This makes me wonder a bit, as according to packages.debian.org a package exists: http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=ncftp&searchon=names&suite=stable&section=all

what does

tell you? Does it find something? If so you should be able to install it. Otherwise you might try to download it from the source mentioned above.

 

Hi Ben.

Thanks for helping out.

Code:

aptitude search ncftp

gives me

Regarding installation of the source i would like to keep it simple by using Apt-get for installation and removal since i am not that well orientated with Building and compiling.

 

afaik if you manually install the downloaded deb according to your debian version, this should be added to the dpkg package list and thus be updated by apt(itude) in the future in case the known repos contain it.

Anyhow, as aptitude search did find it, just try

 

Code:

www:~# aptitude install ncftp

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
[COLOR="Red"][B]No candidate version found for ncftp
No candidate version found for ncftp[/B][/COLOR]
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done

 

What's the output of

Code:

apt-cache policy ncftp

?

 

Code:

www:~# apt-cache policy ncftp

 

That's really strange. Can you run

Code:

aptitude update

and try again?