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

A

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 05:33:59PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre was heard to say:
> 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
>
> system: debian sarge

It would be useful to see the output of "apt-cache showpkg gcc-snapshot".

Daniel

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