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When I try a "aptitude install fglrx-driver", aptitude claims that there
is no candidate version!

aptitude install fglrx-driver
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
No candidate version found for fglrx-driver
No candidate version found for fglrx-driver
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done

aptitude why fglrx-driver
No justification for fglrx-driver could be constructed.

aptitude show fglrx-driver|grep Version
Version: 8.43.2-1

I really do not understand. Any solutions to install fglrx-driver?

Thanks in advance.

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aptitude failed to install fglrx-driver on unstable

Submitted by Romain JACQUET on Mon, 2007-12-03 09:04.

Jörg-Volker Peetz a écrit :
> Romain JACQUET wrote:
>
>> When I try a "aptitude install fglrx-driver", aptitude claims that there
>> is no candidate version!
>>
>>
> [...]
>
>> aptitude why fglrx-driver
>> No justification for fglrx-driver could be constructed.
>>
> This only tells you if fglrx-driver is a dependency of which package
> (aptitude(8)).
>
>> aptitude show fglrx-driver|grep Version
>> Version: 8.43.2-1
>>
>>
> Maybe you have to change something in your apt configuration.
> What is the output of
>
> apt-cache policy fglrx-driver
>
> ?
>
You are right! My /etc/apt/preferences has been tweaked. After deleting
my /etc/apt/preferences, aptitude successfully install fglrx-driver.

Thanks you for answering.

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aptitude failed to install fglrx-driver on unstable

Submitted by Jörg-Volker Peetz on Mon, 2007-12-03 09:05.

Romain JACQUET wrote:
> When I try a "aptitude install fglrx-driver", aptitude claims that there
> is no candidate version!
>
[...]
> aptitude why fglrx-driver
> No justification for fglrx-driver could be constructed.
This only tells you if fglrx-driver is a dependency of which package
(aptitude(8)).
>
> aptitude show fglrx-driver|grep Version
> Version: 8.43.2-1
>
Maybe you have to change something in your apt configuration.
What is the output of

apt-cache policy fglrx-driver

?
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Regards,
Jörg-Volker.

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