can't install packages with apt-get

[terox13]

I just installed Debian 4.0 from the KDE CD. I wan't to install packages and i'm using KPackage. Most of the packages I try and install, specifically wireshark, give me this error:

< export DEBIAN_FRONTEND; apt-get install --yes 'wireshark' ;echo RESULT=$?
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  wireshark: Depends: libadns1 but it is not installable
             Depends: wireshark-common (= 0.99.4-5.etch.2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
RESULT=100

I try and install libadns1 but it says it can't find the package. This is what my sources.list looks like:

#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r3 _Etch_ - Official i386 kde-CD Binary-1 20080217-12:08]/ etch contrib main

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-3 20070407-11:55]/ etch main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-2 20070407-11:55]/ etch main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20070407-11:55]/ etch contrib main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r3 _Etch_ - Official i386 kde-CD Binary-1 20080217-12:08]/ etch contrib main

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

Any help would be greatly appreciated =)

[bryansmith]

libadns1 may not be on one of the 4 cd's you have listed there. Your best bet would be to add online repositories so you can have access to all 20,000 packages or so.

Try following this guide to set up some online repos.

Bryan

[terox13]

I followed the instructions on the site you gave me but when I try and execute

#apt-setup

nothing happens and my sources.list file is the same. Thanks for your help.

[bryansmith]

Check /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/sources.list for an example sources.list. I don't have a Debian box handy so I am going to assume this lists online sources. If you want, you can post the contents here and I can help you craft it.

Bryan

[terox13]

Cook thanks. The example sources.list looks like this:

# See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
# CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool.
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free

# Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work
#deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free

I tried just using that as my sources.list and no packages showed up. Is there a list somewhere of all the different mirrors I can add?

[netstrider]

It's safe to uncomment the last two repositories.

You have to run: apt-get update and then apt-cache search wireshark | more. Should wireshark appear in the list you can install it with apt-get install wireshark.

This is what my debian lists:

uholtz@atom:~$ apt-cache search wireshark
ethereal - dummy upgrade package for ethereal -> wireshark
ethereal-common - dummy upgrade package for ethereal -> wireshark
ethereal-dev - dummy upgrade package for ethereal -> wireshark
packeth - Ethernet packet generator
tethereal - dummy upgrade package for ethereal -> wireshark
tshark - network traffic analyzer (console)
wireshark - network traffic analyzer
wireshark-common - network traffic analyser (common files)
wireshark-dev - network traffic analyser (development tools)

[terox13]

Thank you that worked!

[bryansmith]

In case you were interested, you only had security updates available to you and you were limited to what was on those cds which is a small part of the overall software available to you as a Debian user.

Bryan