How to get bison flex for debian 4.0

[omom_eee]

Dear All

I'm new to Linux and have got some work to do on Debian 4.0.

I have installed this version with the Cd image debian-40r8-i386-CD-1.

I Believe this was a minimal installation.
I'm in need os some packages like Bison flex..

Please help me in getting this

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

You can install packages easily if your machine has internet access. apt-get is default package manager of Debian.
Execute this to fetch list of available packages.

su -
apt-get update

Install packages :

apt-get install package

You can search packages using command :

apt-get search package

[omom_eee]

First of All Thanks a lot 4 ur reply...

I've done what u've mentioned above :

apt-get install flex

and i got an error : package flex has no installation candidate...

got the same rsult for some other packages also...

and i even tried :

apt-get search flex

and got an error : invalid operation search..

Please let me know..

[devils casper]

Did you update apt-get?

apt-get update

Does it throw any error?