I'm trying to install Cherokee webserver on Debian Wheezy. All the docs and websites that I've visited suggest that apt-get install cherokee
will do it, but when I do that, I see:
$ apt-get install cherokee
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package cherokee
When running sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cherokee-webserver
(as described in the docs), I see:
-bash: add-apt-repository: command not found
The docs says:
Debian
Install Cherokee from the apt repository
apt-get install cherokee cherokee-admin
Please, check the documentation for further
So I tried apt-get install cherokee cherokee-admin
, which was also unable to locate the package. It doesn't make any sense: why would they tell you to use apt
, if it's not available there? Some suggest that cherokee
is dead, but I can see on the homepage it's very active, so something isn't right.
Should I build it from source?
On some forums they said that Cherokee never released a package for Wheezy. Is that true?
Best Answer
Cherokee removed from Debian
I found this thread on the Cherokee mailing list which would seem to indicate that the package has been dropped from Debian all together.
missing
add-apt-repository
You're missing the application
add-apt-repository
. You can install it by installing this package:Missing apps
On Debian and Ubuntu you can determine what package to install when you encounter a missing command line tool.
You can also list the contents of a package by using
dpkg-query
:apt-file
You can also install this tool,
apt-file
to search for files and find out what package they're included in:The first time you run it:
So update it:
Now with the cache inplace:
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