apt-get in suse: Couldn't find package

[tarazis]

hi...
i'm kinda new to this, having recently removed windows from my system and giving the disks away and going with linux fulltime...anyways i used apt-get in ubuntu, which i really liked but it's a little too advanced for me at this stage, and when i found this page I was really happy.

i'm running SuSE 9.3 and when i go to install something, for example skype, using apt-get i get the following message:

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package skype

i've been looking for something that would explain what i'm doing wrong or what i'm not doing but it a blizzard out there and i'm lost.

is it that it can't find skype on the server? i've done apt-cache search skype and it's listed.

could someone please help me?

i'm sorry if this isn't the place to post comments like this....as i've said i'm new to this....

[falko]

What's the exact package name returned when you run apt-cache search skype?

For example, if you get a string like skype-common (this is really just an example, I don't know how the Skype packages are named), you have to run apt-get install skype-common.

[tarazis]

thanks for getting back to me.....

as far as i know it's skype....i know that there are numbers and such as part of the name but when i do apt-cache search skype it brings up the name along with alot of other stuff.......

i think that i'll use rpm and work on this.....i beginning to think that the problem is experence and not an actual "software" problem. i could just not being spific enough.....

[falko]

Can you post the output of apt-cache search skype here? I'll tell you then what you need to install.

[tarazis]

########@linux:~> apt-cache search skype
skype - Skype is free Internet telephony that just works
########@linux:~>


this is the output of the search.

when i try apt-get install skype i get:

########@linux:~> sudo apt-get install skype
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package skype
########@linux:~>

i've used rpm to install skype but it is now just the sheer hell of it....
thanks for you help...

[falko]

########@linux:~> apt-cache search skype
skype - Skype is free Internet telephony that just works
########@linux:~>


this is the output of the search.

when i try apt-get install skype i get:

########@linux:~> sudo apt-get install skype
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package skype
########@linux:~>

i've used rpm to install skype but it is now just the sheer hell of it....
thanks for you help...

I'd simply log in as root and run apt-get install skype instead of doing this sudo stuff...

[vimlaroopa]

Your problem might be that the apt-get install is searching for the package (skype) from CD. You should remove the option CD so that it could download directly from the net.

To disable the CD option in suse, see http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_opensuse_10.2_p5

In Ubuntu, you edit /etc/apt/sources.list and comment the first few lines, the look in CD ones.

I'm not sure this gonna work, but you can try it out.