I'm working on a virgin debian 5 image on a VPS. To be honest, this may not be the brightest VPS provider in the world and I suspect their image isn't perfect.
apt-get
fails for everything:
# apt-get -y install gcc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package gcc
There is an /etc/apt/sources.list
:
# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian-security lenny/updates main contrib non-free
...which I think is correct.
Now if I use apt-cache
, I find it:
# apt-cache search gcc
libgcc1 - GCC support library
gcc-4.3-base - The GNU Compiler Collection (base package)
To be honest, I'm not the world's strongest Debian guy. Anyone care to speculate where I should start to fix this problem?