[Bio-Linux] Mothur on Ubuntu 10.10

[Andor J Kiss]

okay, so maverick has been dropped by the repos, so maybe that's the
problem....



$sudo apt-get install mothur
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package mothur 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 'mothur' has no installation candidate





On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 08:44 -0400, Tim Booth wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> OK, so what if you just try:
> 
> apt-get install mothur
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> TIM
> 
> On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 12:42 +0100, Andor J Kiss wrote:
> > $sudo apt-get install bio-linux-mothur
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree       
> > Reading state information... Done
> > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> > or been moved out of Incoming.
> > The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> > 
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > bio-linux-mothur : Depends: mothur (>= 1.22.0) but it is not installable
> >                     Recommends: bio-linux-catchall but it is not
> > installable
> > E: Broken packages
> > 
> 
>