Bug#235725: apt has trouble when reinstalling a purged pkg that was held

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:12:44PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:

> sanchezr@miami:~$ sudo apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird 
> mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Package mozilla-thunderbird 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 mozilla-thunderbird has no installation candidate

What does "apt-cache policy mozilla-thunderbird
mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail" show when the system is in this state?  Send
copies of /etc/apt/sources.list, and /etc/apt/preferences if it exists.  If
you do have a preferences file, does it install correctly if you
remove/rename it temporarily?



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 - mdz