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I've got deb http://debian-multimedia.org squeeze main in "/etc/apt/sources.list", but wajig update && wajig install acroread results in:

E: Package ‘acroread’ has no installation candidate

What’s happening? Are there alternatives repos?

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Just to add a note that unless you really need Adobe Reader's advanced features, you might want to try an alternative reader like Evince, ePDFview or (my favorite) Zathura, which besides being Free Software, are less likely to be target of PDF exploits (in part, because they don't support risky features like embedded scripting). – André Paramés Dec 13 '10 at 0:36
That's why I've made a comment, not an answer... – André Paramés Dec 13 '10 at 23:35

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The problem is that you have just added main to your sources.list. I believe that acroread is in the non-free part of the respository, so you will want to add:

deb http://debian-multimedia.org squeeze non-free

to /etc/apt/sources.list, and then update and install.

Traditionally, even in third-party repos, main only includes files that conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. While non-free contains

Packages [that] have some onerous license condition restricting use or redistribution of the software.

(from http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages)

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