Problem installing wicd [Solved]

[luggw1]

I'm trying to install wicd on a new installation of 9.04, but apt-get complains that it couldn't find the package. A web search indicates that it should work. Is there configuration change that I need to make to get it to work? It's always worked out of the box for me in the past.

Thanks.
Bill Lugg

[Snowhog]

Re: Problem installing wicd

Check to see that you have enabled the Universe repository.

[luggw1]

Re: Problem installing wicd

How do I do that?

Thanks.
Bill Lugg

[vinnywright]

Re: Problem installing wicd

kdesudo kate /etc/apt/sources.list

look for and uncoment (the # at the begining of line)

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates universe

then save and close kate......and

sudo apt-get update

and try the wicd thing agin

VINNY

[luggw1]

Re: Problem installing wicd

Those lines are already uncommented and it still can't find the app. What else might be wrong? It might be worth mentioning that I just installed 9.04 on this machine and haven't installed anything else.

Thanks.
Bill Lugg

[sithlord48]

Re: Problem installing wicd

have you done a 'sudo apt-get update' to update your package cache..? that will give you un updated list of installable packages.

[Snowhog]

Re: Problem installing wicd

It might be worth mentioning that I just installed 9.04 on this machine and haven't installed anything else.

Might be that the CD-Rom repository is still active. Let's see your sources.list file. Open a console and type:

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

Copy and paste the output into your reply.

[dualpretop]

Re: Problem installing wicd

http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/wicd

[luggw1]

Re: Problem installing wicd

have you done a 'sudo apt-get update' to update your package cache..? that will give you un updated list of installable packages.

This one was the solution. Once I did that it had no problem finding wicd.

Thanks for the help.

Bill Lugg

[eddieg780]

Re: Problem installing wicd [Solved]

Important note:

wicd in the repositories is not the current version 1.5.9-2 I believe. Some computers running karmic or will update to karmic will have problems with the version in the repositories. Please go here... http://wicd.sourceforge.net/ and click on download and follow the instructions so you can get the latest version 1.6.2-2 and keep your wicd up to date.

[Snowhog]

Re: Problem installing wicd [Solved]

Installing Wicd in Ubuntu

If you are using Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty), Wicd 1.5.9 is in the universe repository, so a simple sudo apt-get install wicd will do it. If you want the latest version of Wicd when it comes out, though, you'll need to add the Wicd repository. Jaunty users who need to download the Wicd deb package can grab it from Ubuntu's Universe repository.

Non-Jaunty versions of Ubuntu (Intrepid, Hardy, etc) or Jaunty users who want the latest updates will have to add the Wicd repository to the Ubuntu package manager. To open the package manager in Gnome, go to Administration > Synaptic Package Manager. When it appears, go to Settings > Repositories > Third Party Software > Add..., and enter the following line:

deb http://apt.wicd.net jaunty extras

where "jaunty" is your version of Ubuntu in lowercase (dapper, edgy, feisty, gutsy, hardy, intrepid, jaunty). You'll also need to add the key used for signing Wicd by running the following command in a terminal:

wget -q http://apt.wicd.net/wicd.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Now, click Reload, and wait while the package lists are downloaded. Now, search for "Wicd", and right click on it. Select Install, then press Apply, and Wicd will automatically be downloaded and installed for you. This will also keep you automatically up to date with the latest and greatest version of Wicd. Please note that this will remove network-manager, which is the default GNOME network manager and may cause loss of network connection temporarily.

[sithlord48]

Re: Problem installing wicd [Solved]

have you done a 'sudo apt-get update' to update your package cache..? that will give you un updated list of installable packages.

This one was the solution. Once I did that it had no problem finding wicd.

Thanks for the help.

Bill Lugg

sweet i fixed something , very good to hear you got it installed.