This post may help newbies if they are trying to install ‘pptp‘ or any other package on their Debian Box, as i was trying and got stuck due to this error.
root@vpn:/# apt-get install pptpd
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package pptpd
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package pptpd
After some google i got the solution.
`Here it is :
Step-1 Open ‘sources.list’ file
nano /etc/apt/sources.list
Step-2 Add these new sources
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
Step-3 Update your list
apt-get update
Now try to install your pptp package, hope it will work if you have any question please post in comments.Thanks.!