when I try to install bind9 using the perfect setup for debian etch using the above I get the following error: ~# apt-get install bind9 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Package bind9 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 However the following packages replace it: dnsutils E: Package bind9 has no installation candidate I have tried to use the /etc/apt/source.list as in the perfect setup and the original one that came on the vds. I have installed everything else from the perfect setup. Can anybody please help?
Did you do an aptget update first? What do you see if you execute: apt-cache search bind9 ? What's in your /etc/apt/source.list ?
I have already run apt-get update my /etc/apt/source.list is #deb http://mirrors.lycos-vds.com/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib #deb-src http://mirrors.lycos-vds.com/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib #deb http://mirrors.lycos-vds.com/local/debian sarge vds #deb-src http://mirrors.lycos-vds.com/local/debian sarge vds #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main deb http://ftp.debian.nl/debian/ stable main deb-src http://ftp.debian.nl/debian/ stable main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian etch main and the results of apt-cache search bind9 are # apt-cache search bind9 bind9 - Internet Domain Name Server bind9-doc - Documentation for BIND bind9-host - Version of 'host' bundled with BIND 9.X bindgraph - DNS statistics RRDtool frontend for BIND9 gbindadmin - GTK+ configuration tool for bind9 gforge-dns-bind9 - collaborative development tool - DNS management (using Bind9) host - utility for querying DNS servers libbind9-0 - BIND9 Shared Library used by BIND libconfig-auto-perl - Magical config file parser libnss-lwres - NSS module for using bind9's lwres as a naming service thanks!
Why do you have deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian etch main within your /etc/apt/sources.list and not deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian etch main ? By the way i think you can comment it out with a #. These three lines should be enough for the Debian current stable branch: deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
I have just added that one the run apt-get update but still get the same problem. I have just downloaded bind9_9.3.4-2etch1_i386.deb then I ran Code: dpkg -i bind9_9.3.4-2etch1_i386.deb then i got Selecting previously deselected package bind9. (Reading database ... 22986 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking bind9 (from bind9_9.3.4-2etch1_i386.deb) ... Setting up bind9 (9.3.4-2etch1) ... Starting domain name service...: bindnamed: capset failed: Operation not permitted named: capset failed: Operation not permitted .
The Bind documentation says this about your error: The capability module, part of "Linux Security Modules/LSM", has not been loaded into the kernel. Why did you not change the sources.list as i suggested first, followed by an apt-get update ? I think things are messed up now
i have removed all other sources so sources.list is now just deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian etch main I then ran apt-get update but still got the same problem
you should have three lines like this within your sources.list: deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
I would suggest to do an: updatedb apt-get update apt-get install bind9 But you've installed bind9_9.3.4-2etch1_i386.deb already.. It's rather late now, so go to sleep now Good luck
