Re: installing package from unstable

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 05:33:59PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
Hello,

I must be doing something wrong, but I cannot figure out what:

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep unstable
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get -t unstable install gcc-snapshot
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package gcc-snapshot

andrew@basement:~/backup$ apt-cache search gcc-snapshot
gcc-snapshot - A SNAPSHOT of the GNU Compiler Collection
andrew@basement:~/backup$ apt-cache policy gcc-snapshot
gcc-snapshot:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 20061022-1
Version table:
20061022-1 0
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org sid/main Packages

hth

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