Errors When Installing EVOLUTION

[LAF]

Hi,

Trying to install Evolution on my PERSISTENT HOME USB key and got the following error:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package evolution 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 evolution has no installation candidate


Can somebody help???

Marc.

[JohnnyH]

You don't tell us which release of Knoppix you are using, but *assuming* that it is 5.1.x or 5.0.x your /etc/apt/sources.list file if unmodified will be using obsolete designations of what "stable" "testing" and "unstable" mean for Debian packages.
I recommend that you read up about packaging on http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
but anyway try invoking

apt-get update
apt-get -s install evolution

and assess whether you are happy with what the apt-get simulation tells you it will install|upgrade|remove if applicable.
If you want to proceed then

apt-get install evolution

will probably work for you.

[LAF]

Thanks JohnyH,

I will try that. But I think I know what the problem is!

I have to go through PROXY to get to the INTERNET...

I setup Manual PROXY in the browser (Konqueror). But when trying to do stuff like apt-get, it doesn't work. Is there soemthing I have to do to set the PROXY for the ENTIRE KNOPPIX 5.1??? If so, what do I do and where do I go??

Thanks,

Marc.

[LAF]

Ok,

I did the apt-get update, here's the error that came back:

Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Packages
Fetched 31.0kB in 3s (8866B/s)
Failed to fetch http://ftp.uni-kl.de/debian-local/di...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 10.64.1.100 80]
W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs:
B5D0C804ADB11277
W: GPG error: http://sidux.com sid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 3916C431F80994F6
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
root@Knoppix:/KNOPPIX.IMG/home/knoppix#

Can somebody help me?

Marc.

[JohnnyH]

1. OK, having done the apt-get update (set aside those errors for the moment), did you then try the apt-get -s install evolution ?

2. Might as well get your /etc/apt/sources.list file aligned to the current Debian mirrors set-up. You are unlikely to need the Knoppix-specific sites in the file by this time, so I suggest that you replace your /etc/apt/sources.list with the following (better to back-up your original first )

deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
#deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free

# VLC Player and libdvdcss
deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sid main

# w32codecs
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main

# cinelerra
deb http://www.kiberpipa.org/~minmax/cinelerra/builds/sid/ ./

(To get a mirror closer to you, replace "uk" by your country code)
Then do

apt-get update
apt-get -s install evolution

and then if it looks OK

apt-get install evolution

Good luck

[LAF]

Hi JohnnyH,

I did modify my souces.list. Then I did apt-get update. Here's the results:

Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Packages
Get:27 http://ftp.uk.debian.org etch/non-free Packages [83.6kB]
Get:28 http://ftp.uk.debian.org etch/contrib Packages [60.0kB]
Fetched 4780kB in 43s (110kB/s)
Failed to fetch http://ftp.uni-kl.de/debian-local/di...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 10.52.1.100 80]
W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs:
B5D0C804ADB11277
W: GPG error: http://sidux.com sid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 3916C431F80994F6
W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs:
B5D0C804ADB11277
W: GPG error: http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 07DC563D1F41B907
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
root@Knoppix:/etc/apt#

What next ?

Thanks,

Marc.

[JohnnyH]

1] Because you got this :-

...
Failed to fetch http://ftp.uni-kl.de/debian-local/di...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 10.52.1.100 80]
...
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
...

it seems that you *added* the modifications to your original /etc/apt/sources.list file, but you should
*completely replace* the original /etc/apt/sources.list file with the changes that I suggested.

2] You don't say whether you tried

apt-get -s install evolution

, but it might have worked anyway now as the

Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Packages
Get:27 http://ftp.uk.debian.org etch/non-free Packages [83.6kB]
Get:28 http://ftp.uk.debian.org etch/contrib Packages [60.0kB]
Fetched 4780kB in 43s (110kB/s)

are OK.
But it is best to remove the ... ftp.uni-kl.de to avoid errors.

By The Way

W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs:
B5D0C804ADB11277
W: GPG error: http://sidux.com sid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 3916C431F80994F6
W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs:
B5D0C804ADB11277
W: GPG error: http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 07DC563D1F41B907

are not serious problems; you can still use them - you would have to tell apt-get (when prompted) to install the 'unofficial' codecs without verification

3] Do you know what is your country code ? I know that it can be difficult if English is not your 'langue maternelle' but if you look at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages you can find translations to
БългарÑ?ки (BÉ™lgarski) catalÃ* Ä?esky dansk Deutsch Ελληνικά (Ellinika) español français í•œêµ*ì–´ (Hangul) hrvatski Italiano magyar Nederlands 日本語 (Nihongo) polski Português Ð*уÑ?Ñ?кий (Russkij) slovensky suomi svenska Türkçe українÑ?ька (ukrajins'ka)

4] We are making progress - good luck

[LAF]

Thanks so much JohnnyH,

You are so patient... I will try your suggestions, and I'll keep you posted!

Cheers

Marc.

[LAF]

Ok,

I did replace everything in the sources.list by the lines that you sent me. Then I did the apt-get update, got an error. Then I tried apt-get -s install evolution.

Here's the results:

Get:5 http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release [4175B]
Get:6 http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages [63.4kB]
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org etch/main Packages
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org etch/non-free Packages
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org etch/contrib Packages
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch/main Packages
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/non-free Packages
Fetched 90.4kB in 3s (22.8kB/s)
W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs:
B5D0C804ADB11277
W: GPG error: http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 07DC563D1F41B907
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
root@Knoppix:/etc/apt# apt-get -s intall evolution
E: Invalid operation intall
root@Knoppix:/etc/apt# apt-get -s install evolution
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
root@Knoppix:/etc/apt#


What is the next step?

Thanks JohnnyH,

Marc.

[JohnnyH]

I've never been in the situation of having to do this, but try

 dpkg --configure -a

- it cannot do any harm and may reset the dpkg configuration successfully. Then try

apt-get install evolution