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I have installed the squeeze version of Debian on a computer in offline mode (no internet connection during installation).

After the installation (that was successful) I edited /etc/apt/sources.list to comment the cd-rom source and uncomment the official Debian repositories. With the computer connected to Internet, the package database seems to update as planned (with apt-get update) but I can't find the wireless-tools package in the repository: apt-cache search wireless does not return anything.

here is the content of /etc/apt/sources.list

#

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.6 _Squeeze_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20120929-15:56]/ squeeze main

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.6 _Squeeze_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20120929-15:56]/ squeeze main

deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main

# squeeze-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
# A network mirror was not selected during install.  The following entries
# are provided as examples, but you should amend them as appropriate
# for your mirror of choice.
#

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib non-free

Any idea? Thanks

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Without further information, i.e. apt-cache policy we can't help – Ulrich Dangel Nov 26 '12 at 15:58
Please include your /etc/apt/sources.list ... is it possible you only enabled the security updates sources, but not the main ones? – derobert Nov 26 '12 at 16:18
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So these two uncommented lines are not the official general-use repositories, these are the lines I needed to add: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main and deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main Thank you for your time! – PierreE Nov 26 '12 at 16:50

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