Bug#307594: marked as done (apt-get tomcat4 package is not available)

Sat May 7 18:54:03 2005

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Package: tomcat4
Version: 4.1.31

using command:
 apt-get install tomcat4

causes:
 Package tomcat4 is not available, but is referred to
by another package.  This may mean that the package is
missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from
another source  E: Package tomcat4 has no installation
candidate

using list.sources of:
 debian.oergonstate.edu
 ftp.debian.org
 ftp.us.debian.org

Also found this in the archives on the same issue:
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-apache@lists.debian.org/msg05543.html

[Note: very first bug report ... please notify me if I
need to modify or do something different in future.
Also a newb.  thanks]

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Adding "contrib' to the sources.list file solved the
problem. [Hence not really a bug.]  IE:
   deb http://mirror.averse.net/debian/ testing main
contrib

For future newbs that might stumble across this error
... There is very little documentation on the
sources.list file ... many show an entry like this:
  deb http://mirror.com/debian distribution section1
section2 section3

But there is never an explanation on what "section1"
is, even in the man pages.  If you were to do a
package search on tomcat4 in testing ... it is marked
with [contrib] ... hence needing the 'section' contrib
added to the sources entry.  

Thanks to Aldous Penaranda for patiently pointing this
out and guiding me through the bug process.