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earl
apt-get error - cannot install anything
February 03, 2014 12:17PM
any packages i try to install give me this error message: 

root@GoFlexSqueeze:~# apt-get install wicd-curses
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package wicd-curses 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 'wicd-curses' has no installation candidate
root@GoFlexSqueeze:~#
I ran apt-get update (output here) and still same thing

here is the output of cat /etc/apt/sources.list 
root@GoFlexSqueeze:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
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bodhi
Re: apt-get error - cannot install anything
February 03, 2014 03:33PM
Earl,

apt-get update is successful, then the sources are OK. Did it happen after you upgraded the kernel? if yes then I would backup the rootfs first, and then do apt-get upgrade. Try install again after that.

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earl
Re: apt-get error - cannot install anything
February 03, 2014 03:36PM
kernel is the same and i did apt-get upgrade also: 
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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earl
Re: apt-get error - cannot install anything
February 07, 2014 08:36AM
I had a /etc/apt/preferences file and renamed it to .bak now it works. 
root@GoFlexSqueeze:~# mv /etc/apt/preferences /etc/apt/preferences.bak
root@GoFlexSqueeze:~# apt-get update
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg
...
Reading package lists... Done
root@GoFlexSqueeze:~# apt-get install wicd-curses
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libffi5 libpcsclite1 python-dbus python-gobject python-iniparse
  python-support python-urwid python-wicd wicd-daemon wpasupplicant
Suggested packages:
  pcscd python-dbus-doc python-dbus-dbg python-gobject-dbg pm-utils wpagui
  libengine-pkcs11-openssl
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libffi5 libpcsclite1 python-dbus python-gobject python-iniparse
  python-support python-urwid python-wicd wicd-curses wicd-daemon
  wpasupplicant
0 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,725 kB of archives.
After this operation, 6,698 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
...

Is there anything I need in that file?
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bodhi
Re: apt-get error - cannot install anything
February 07, 2014 12:34PM
Earl,

No need to have this file. Only when you need to have special rules for apt-get, e.g. to install different package version from different sources.

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earl
Re: apt-get error - cannot install anything
February 08, 2014 07:31PM
[Solved]
Thank you!
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