no nmap package in Ubuntu repository for 9.04

[P Panon]

Binary package hint: nmap

The Ubuntu repository hold no package for nmap, but holds packages for GUI front-ends to nmap that have nmap dependencies: knmap, nmapsi4, zenmap, etc. Trying to install one of the GUI frontends provides the following error:

zenmap:
 Depends: nmap but it is not installable

[Omegamormegil (omegamormegil)]

I have nmap and zenmap installed, and nmap is showing in the Main repository for Jaunty. Can you post the contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list file?

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Please run (in a terminal):
$ sudo apt-get install --simulate -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=true
and attach the output here.

[P Panon (papanon)]

ppanon@nbvan810-ubu:~$ sudo apt-get install --simulate -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=true
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Starting
Starting 2
Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

I decided to see if I could get the nmap package from the repository manually. I went to http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty. I needed to track down prerequisite packages and when I got to http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/python/python-gnome2-extras, it requires libgda3-3 and libgda3-common. However libgda4-4/common is what got installed with the O/S

[P Panon (papanon)]

woops sorry. I did get nmap installed after downloading manually from the repository. It must have been one of the GUI front-ends that wound up sending me on the libgda3, libgdl1 chase

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

@P Panon,

Is this still a problem?

Regards
chuck

[Dave Walker (davewalker)]

Marking Invalid, as it seems it wasn't a bug with the packaging. If this is not the case, please update the bug report and we'll re-open accordingly. Thanks again for raising a bug! :)