#1 2020-05-17 13:40:27

mariannemarlow

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[SOLVED] Help with installing Gdebi on Debian 10

Hello all

I think when I installed Debian 10 on my laptop I must have not ticked some of the boxes or something because I tried to install gdebi earlier and I got the message:

has no installation candidate

Same thing happened when I tried to install synaptic

Can anyone help?

I am wondering if I forgot to choose a mirror for my sources list.

I googled this but I do not know how to add a mirror to the list if that is the issue.

Sorry to be a pain with my newbie questions!

-edit- hhh here, marking this thread [SOLVED].

Last edited by hhh (2020-05-18 23:50:51)

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hhh

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Re: [SOLVED] Help with installing Gdebi on Debian 10

No worries. Post the output of 'sudo apt update', please use the forum "code" tag function. This will show us your sources.

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mariannemarlow

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Re: [SOLVED] Help with installing Gdebi on Debian 10

Thank you hhh

Here is the output

Get:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease [65.4 kB]
Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease [49.3 kB]
Fetched 115 kB in 1s (166 kB/s)                                      
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.

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Re: [SOLVED] Help with installing Gdebi on Debian 10

Get:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease [65.4 kB]
Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease [49.3 kB]

Yes, you are missing sources.

Add at least:
## DEBIAN 10 Buster
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free

You edit as root the file: /etc/apt/sources.list

Read more about Debian repos on https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository

Last edited by rbh (2020-05-17 20:18:03)

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mariannemarlow

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Re: [SOLVED] Help with installing Gdebi on Debian 10

Thanks so much, I'll sort this out tomorrow morning!

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Re: [SOLVED] Help with installing Gdebi on Debian 10

Thank you so much @rbh

All updated, upgraded. Installed Gdebi, synaptic, skype and zoom.

Yay!

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Re: [SOLVED] Help with installing Gdebi on Debian 10

Marking this [SOLVED], another BL success story.

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Re: [SOLVED] Help with installing Gdebi on Debian 10

Marking this [SOLVED], another BL success story.

Yep the Labs has yet another happy customer :-)

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Re: [SOLVED] Help with installing Gdebi on Debian 10

Marking this [SOLVED], another BL success story.

Sorry that I forgot to mark as solved!

Cheers everyone.

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