[SOLVED] Debian Squeeze apt-get errors when installing Git?

Issue

I'm new to Linux/Debian (squeeze). I'm trying to do an apt-get to install git and receive this error message.

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done Package git-core 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 'git-core' has no installation candidate

i tried editing my sources.list to the following

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.5 Squeeze - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20120512-13:45]/ > squeeze contrib main

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.5 Squeeze - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20120512-13:45]/ squeeze contrib main

deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/updates main contrib deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/updates main contrib

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian squeeze/updates main contrib deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian squeeze/updates main contrib

# squeeze-updates, previously known as 'volatile'

# A network mirror was not selected during install. The following entries

# are provided as examples, but you should amend them as appropriate

# for your mirror of choice.

#

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib

as i said i'm very new to this so i don't know what needs to be in the sources.list file. I can't actually install anything right now. i tried installing php as well and got the same error. please help :(

Solution

The git-core package is obsolete, try installing git.

EDIT

Furthermore you only have squeeze updates repositories in your sources.list, add at least one regular squeeze repository to get access to all packages, not just updated ones:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

Afterwards run apt-get update to update your local package index.

Answered By - scai