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§ion=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