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Background

This is probably very basic for someone, but I can not figure this out for the life of me. I wish to simply install fetchmail onto my raspberry pi. Using the command sudo apt-get install fetchmail results in the following:

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What I have tried

I have tried sudo apt-get update which goes through the process of updating, then follow with the install command for fetchmail shown above, but the same result. Per fetchmail's own page it states that the sources are also available at two repositories: https://gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail and https://sourceforge.net/p/fetchmail/git/

I am not very experienced at adding repositories as my attempts have failed. I did take a look at /etc/apt/sources.list and tried to mimic the one found in here but it just results in errors for me.

I know this is probably very basic for most, but I really can't figure this out so much appreaciated!

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It appears that manually installing seems to work. I used:

sudo wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.4.0~beta4-3+deb10u1_armhf.deb to download the package followed by:

sudo apt install ./fetchmail_6.4.0~beta4-3+deb10u1_armhf.deb

This appears to have worked. For anyone else experiencing this issue, take a look at this page: https://packages.debian.org/buster/fetchmail and pick the specific architecture you use. For the raspberry pi, it uses a armhf version.

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    This is equivalent of clicking an arbitrary Download button on some ad-infested website and running the downloaded binary. Do not circumvent the security mechanisms in the apt ecosystem - instead, fix whatever prevented you from retrieving the package through standard methods (usually by calling apt update again). Commented Nov 8, 2021 at 15:22
  • @anx I did try calling apt-update as you suggest but did not work. What else do you suggest other than telling me my answer is wrong? Commented Nov 8, 2021 at 15:24
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    Go through the standard diagnostics like apt policy packagename to figure out what is going on. (you will find many similar questions like yours, at least on suitable sites of the SE network, this one is for professional management) Commented Nov 8, 2021 at 15:32

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