So, I have a brand new Debian install. My sources.list looks like this:
deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main contrib nonfree
deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main contrib nonfree
deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main contrib nonfree
deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main contrib nonfree
deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib nonfree
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib nonfree
However, I can't so much as install vim
- it tells me no installation candidate found
!
I started by trying to install the nvidia drivers as provided here. However, I keep getting errors in both aptitude and apt-get, that a dependency package cannot be installed
, and when I try to do it manually - no installation candidate.
. I fixed one of these errors by downloading packages manually as a proof of concept.
And yes, I ran apt-get update
. Could someone be so kind as to tell me how to fix my package manager?
sudo apt-get update
what is the general output? Have you attemptedsudo apt-get upgrade
what is the output of that? Also is the above the exact copy and paste from your sources.list file? Not from a website or anything? Also does it tell you what dependency is missing?apt-get update
several times, although I may have neglected to tryapt-get upgrade
after some of the attempts of messing with it. Exact command:apt-get install vim
. To boot, I think I'd have to look up the command output for update... but it didn't warn or anything.sudo apt-get upgrade
so instead of just finding out about the updates available we actually install them. Then after that go ahead and reboot and try in install vim again. If it fails copy paste the results, I am curious if it has the missing dependency listed in the error.sudo apt-get install vim-runtime
but keep in mind this is just a band-aide.apt-get -f install
say? What aboutapt-cache policy vim
? Do you have a file/etc/apt/preferences
or files in the directory/etc/apt/preferences.d
and if so what do they contain?