jessie: can't install that which found

From	Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	jessie: can't install that which found
Date	2016-05-11 01:30 +0200
Message-ID	<rxpge-4fX-15@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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# aptitude search iceape
...
c   iceape-browser                                - Iceape Navigator (Internet browser) and Composer
c   iceape-chatzilla                              - Iceape Chatzilla IRC client
v   iceape-dom-inspector                          -
c   iceape-mailnews                               - Iceape Mail & Newsgroups and Address Book
v   iceape-noscript                               -
v   iceape-openinbrowser                          -
...
# aptitude install iceape-browser
No candidate version found for iceape-browser
No candidate version found for iceape-browser
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.

What? How can a package manager find a package yet refuse to find it
when directed to install it? Same problem with apt-get. ???
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jessie: can't install that which found Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-05-11 01:30 +0200
  Re: jessie: can't install that which found Gavrilov Aleksey <gavrilov@info74.ru> - 2016-05-11 07:10 +0200

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