Hi Simon,

Simon Walter writes:

> On 2021-10-20 15:09, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote:
>> Hmm not sure where you take information from:
>>
>> https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/policy-query.html?c=file&q=bin%2Fntpd&x=submit
>>
>> https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/package-query.html?c=package&q=ntp=1:4.2.8p15+dfsg-1
>>
>> perhaps a missing crucial "apt-get update" ?
>
> Aha! ntpd isn't in the repos. ntp is. ;) Thanks for the hint, Ralph!

I can also recommend

apt-file search bin/ntpd

but that requires installing apt-file.

BTW, my search made me decide to go with ntpsec instead of ntp.

Hope this helps,
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