E: Couldn’t find package 'blah blah'

[Basilikus]

hi, whilst trying to sort out other problems i have come across more, not quite sure what im suppose to do. An example is that i found things that suggest doing things, but when i try i get errors like this:

sudo apt-get install ntfs-config
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Couldn’t find package ntfs-config

What does this mean? many other things come up with the couldn't find package error aswell e.g.
sudo apt-get update
doesnt update anything (although it might have nothing to update, but still)
very confusing, do you need the internet to carry these things out? i have problems with that and ive posted about it, if you do that could be why it doesn't work, but otherwise no idea
thanks in advanced.

[arochester]

Re: E: Couldn’t find package 'blah blah'

Can you please open Konsole Terminal Program, input

kdesu kate /etc/apt/sources.list

and copy and paste the result here

[musta ruhtinas]

Re: E: Couldn’t find package 'blah blah'

very confusing, do you need the internet to carry these things out?

unless you set up an offline repository, you will need a working internet connection to use apt-get.
your ubuntu cd/dvd is a source for apt-get (if the cdrom entry in /etc/apt/sources.list is uncommented), but you need internet acces for the other repositories.

you can also install individual packages offline with the sudo dpkg -i nameofpackage command, but normally a package would depend on others to be present as well and quite soon you may end up in a dependency hell

[Rog131]

Re: E: Couldn’t find package 'blah blah'

Here

:~$ apt-cache show ntfs-config

tells:

Package: ntfs-config
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin

Filename: pool/universe/n/ntfs-config/ntfs-config_0.5.5-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

#1 check your /etc/apt/souces.list

APT HOWTO
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ap.../index.en.html

# 2 did you:

:~$ sudo apt-get update

before ?

Chapter 3 - Managing packages
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ap....html#s-update


Link:

Topic: Installing new apps and apt-get
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3086360.0

[Basilikus]

Re: E: Couldn’t find package 'blah blah'

hi, arochester i have got the results from sources.list file, i don't really know what i'm looking for on it but still here it is: (first, some errors came upw hen i typed in kdesu kate /etc/apt/sources.list
phil@Basilikus-Kubuntu:~$ kdesu kate /etc/apt/sources.list

passprompt
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-phil" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Error: "/tmp/kde-phil" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Error: "/tmp/ksocket-phil" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.

then the sources.list said:

deb cdrom:[Kubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release i386 (20071016.1)]/ gutsy main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted
## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-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.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates 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.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify
#deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates 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/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.
# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse


By the way, how do you 'enable universe' some commands seem to require this but i have no idea how to do it?
and thanksmusta, thats probably why i cant update but ill have a look at the links.

[musta ruhtinas]

Re: E: Couldn’t find package 'blah blah'

see the # at the beginning of the line? that tells the program that the rest of the line is a comment, just plain text.
to enable the universe (or any other repository) you simply delete the # before deb and deb-src (the address of the repository); for this you need to be root, so you would type in the Run Command dialog:

 kdesu kate /etc/apt/sources.list

all your repositories were commented (except the cdrom), since the package manager was unable to connect to them.
enabling them without internet access is pointless.

[Basilikus]

Re: E: Couldn’t find package 'blah blah'

so there's not much i can do without the internet then?

[mchuskie]

Re: E: Couldn’t find package 'blah blah'

so there's not much i can do without the internet then?

Not really, since without internet access your system won't be able to download any packages for you.

However, if you can get to an internet-enabled machine and have some way of moving files between them, you can go to packages.ubuntu.com and download packages from there. Be aware that you'll need to also download any dependencies for programs that you need installed, something that apt does for you.