Update issues, Apt-get not working, apt-install things are greyed out etc.

[ror87]

Hello! I'm new to kubuntuforums, and hopefully I'll settle in nicely and learn a lot.

To the point though, I'm having trouble updating anything. Before Sept, my laptop (Acer Aspire 5630, Intel core 2, T5500 1.66GHz, 1GB of RAM) had Vista on one partition and Kubuntu 7.04 on the other. Everything worked fine at home, no problems. I removed Vista through frustration at not being able to play any of the games I wanted to. However by this time I had moved to university halls. The newly XP and Kubuntu seemed to work fine. Except I couldn't update anything in Kubuntu. I had to plug into the internet, and browse using this http proxy http://www.staffs.ac.uk/proxy.config. This is what happened when I tried to install firefox

ror@ror-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install firefox
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package firefox is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package firefox has no installation candidate
ror@ror-laptop:~$

I tried to look at apt-install, and the majority of programs were greyed out, not able to click on them.

I've been told I need to add this code

Acquire { http { Proxy "http://my.proxyort/";
No-Cache "false";
Max-Age "86400";
No-Store "false";
};
};

to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf, but when I did that and tried to apt-get firefox again, I get a "404 not found" message in terminal. I think it might have something to do with the proxy, but the first time I started up kubuntu, all the apt-install items were greyed out to begin with. Can anyone think what's happening, please?

[Snowhog]

Re: Update issues, Apt-get not working, apt-install things are greyed out etc.

Open a console and then type:

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

Then check for a medibuntu.list file with

cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

copy and paste the results of both to a reply. Note: If you don't have a medibuntu.list, the cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list won't work. If that is the case, let us know that also. I'm on Gutsy at the moment, and don't remember if Feisty uses this for the medibuntu repository.

[ror87]

Re: Update issues, Apt-get not working, apt-install things are greyed out etc.

Hey, this is the result of the first command

ror@ror-laptop:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-updates main restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty universe
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty multiverse
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security multiverse
ror@ror-laptop:~$

But the cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list didn't work, said there was no such file or directory.

[Snowhog]

Re: Update issues, Apt-get not working, apt-install things are greyed out etc.

Don't worry about the second command not finding anything. Feisty incorporates all repositories in the one /etc/apt/sources.list file. Your sources.list looks fine. Nothing I can see that is wrong or unexpected.

Are you using the K Menu | Add/Remove Programs or K Menu | System | Adept Manager
If you are using the former, don't. Use the latter. See if that doesn't make a difference for you.

[ror87]

Re: Update issues, Apt-get not working, apt-install things are greyed out etc.

I tried using adept manager, but the updates weren't working. And it said firefox was installed. So I tried it in konsole and got this:

ror@ror-laptop:~$ firefox
The program 'firefox' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install firefox
bash: firefox: command not found
ror@ror-laptop:~$

My problem seems fairly complex

[Snowhog]

Re: Update issues, Apt-get not working, apt-install things are greyed out etc.

If it is installed, it should be in K Menu | Internet. If you don't see the application there, then launching it from a console should be with ff not firefox (if memory serves me).

[kubicle]

Re: Update issues, Apt-get not working, apt-install things are greyed out etc.

I've been told I need to add this code

Acquire { http { Proxy "http://my.proxyort/";
No-Cache "false";
Max-Age "86400";
No-Store "false";
};
};

to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf, but when I did that and tried to apt-get firefox again, I get a "404 not found" message in terminal. I think it might have something to do with the proxy, but the first time I started up kubuntu, all the apt-install items were greyed out to begin with. Can anyone think what's happening, please?

Just to be sure, you did change "http://my.proxyort/" to the actual URLort number of your proxy?

[ror87]

Re: Update issues, Apt-get not working, apt-install things are greyed out etc.

Hm, firefox isn't in the k menu -> internet. Nor does "ff" work.

And the proxyort I've entered is "http:www.staffs.ac.uk/proxy.config:80" I don't actually know if that's the port for sure, as I didn't know how to find ports out. I asked my brother and he told me http ports are usually 80. I tried just the proxy, the proxy and port and can't find any differences.

[Snowhog]

Re: Update issues, Apt-get not working, apt-install things are greyed out etc.

Open Adept Manager (K Menu | System | Adept Manager) and search for firefox. If it is not identified, then the repository for it is not in your sources list or not activated.

If firefox is not listed in Adept Manager, then open Adept Manager, click on Adept and Manage Repositories. You want to uncomment the
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
items. Tell Adept to Fetch Updates (if it doesn't do it automatically) and search for firefox again.

This Repositories/Kubuntu link explains very well how to manage repositories.

[ror87]

Re: Update issues, Apt-get not working, apt-install things are greyed out etc.

I had a look in Adept Manager, and it says "mozilla-firefox-locale-en-gb" the status is installed. I downloaded firefox from the website, and tried following the instructions, and got

ror@ror-laptop:~/firefox$ ~/firefox/firefox
/home/ror/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I think I need to "sudo apt-get install build-essentials" (can't remember exactly) for the libstdc++ libraries. Which unfortunately I can't.
Thanks for the link, I'll have a read.

[Snowhog]

Re: Update issues, Apt-get not working, apt-install things are greyed out etc.

If you activate those repositories and fetch updates, I think that the firefox package will be available from Adept Manager for installation. Firefox is available for me within Adept Manager.