Where to begin????????????

[poobaire]

Ok, so I'm running Heron, and I have a few things that are not working anymore. The first and most important is the Adept Manager. When I open it, the manager window opens, but I get a dialog saying--- "The APT Database could not be opened! This may be caused by incorrect APT configuration or some similar problem. Try running apt-setup and apt-get update in terminal and see if it helps to resolve the problem.---

I am new to Linux, so I don't know if that even has anything to do with it, what this means, or what to do about it.

Second, my VLC player for no reason whatsoever will not open anymore. Maybe I installed something that messed it up, but I'm not really interested in uninstalling everything just to see what the crap is up.

And finally, Wine, doesn't really seem to let me complete installations of anything (well, not anything, but most things). Games, larger programs, I think really anything on a disc.

If y'all could give me a hand here, that'd be great!

Thanks

James

[arochester]

Re: Where to begin

1)

Try running apt-setup and apt-get update in terminal

a) Open a terminal
b) Input:

sudo apt-get update

c) What happens?
d) I don't recognise this as a command:

apt-setup

2)

my VLC player for no reason whatsoever will not open anymore

a)Try reinstalling it.
b) What happens?

3)

Wine, doesn't really seem to let me complete installations of anything (well, not anything, but most things)

a) Be aware that Wine will run many things BUT NOT ALL.
b) Have a look at http://frankscorner.org/
c) There is a kind of hierarchy (?). Have a look at Wine-doors and PlayOnLinux as well . They are both free and based on Wine

[poobaire]

Re: Where to begin

I've actually tried the apt-get update, and I just forgot to put that in here (it's been like this for about a month, and I was just bogged down with work, and what-not).

When I do the apt-get update in the terminal, this is what happens...

james@james-laptop:~$ apt-get update
E: Type 'apt:gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse?section=multiversehttp://www.debian-multimedia.org/' is not known on line 57 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list"

So without Adept, how do I uninstall this module?

Now, with Wine, I've checked compatabilities and everything is cool, so I'll check those sites, maybe I'm doing something wrong (which is all too likely)

Thanks for the quick assistance!!!

[arochester]

Re: Where to begin

You have a "mistake" on line 57 of your sources list. So edit your sources list and Adept should work again.

(I'm using 8.10 at th moment and I can't remember when "kdesu" changed to "kdesudo")

So, in a terminal, try the command:

kdesu kate /etc/apt/sources.list

(If that doesn't work just change it to kdesudo!)

That should start Kate, the text editor, with super user rights. Find line 57 and put a # sign at the beginning of the line. This will "rem" it out - make it a reminder instead of an instruction. Save. Exit.

Still in a terminal issue the commands:

sudo apt-get update

and

sudo apt-get upgrade

. Then try Adept again...

[poobaire]

Re: Where to begin

Uhhhhh, could it have been any easier

That was excellent! Thank you so much for the help!

I guess I only have left to figure out the VLC thing. I've removed it (btw, what is the difference of removing and purging a program in Adept?) and reinstalled it and... nothing.

Whenever I tried to open it, it would show up on the "Task Manager" bar at the bottom, and then disappear after a few seconds.