new install.. its missing stuff I need

[unplugged]

I need tcsh.. it's not there. I tried to get it: apt-get install tcsh:

root@hyde:/home/ef9egf/Documents# apt-get install tcsh
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package tcsh

I need synaptic.. it's not there. I tried to get it: apt-get install synaptic:

root@hyde:/home/ef9egf/Documents# apt-get install synaptic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package synaptic 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 synaptic has no installation candidate

[Snowhog]

Re: new install.. its missing stuff I need

Take a look at your /etc/apt/sources.list file. It is likely that you still have the cdrom 'active' as a repository. If that is the case, you need to edit the file 'as root' and comment (#) that line.

[unplugged]

Re: new install.. its missing stuff I need

Nope... all (active/uncommented) lines begin with: http://.....ubuntu.com/...

egrep -v -e "^#" sources.list

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic main restricted

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates main restricted

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates universe

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates multiverse



deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security multiverse

[Snowhog]

Re: new install.. its missing stuff I need

Retry without being in a non-root directory (not in root's path).

[Nate]

Re: new install.. its missing stuff I need

And have you tried installing through kpackagekit?

I'm guessing you're logged in as root from the info you gave, but does using sudo make any difference?

[kubicle]

Re: new install.. its missing stuff I need

Just to check, have you run "apt-get update" to refresh the package lists?

[unplugged]

Re: new install.. its missing stuff I need

all problems are solved:

I cd'ed into a dir in roots path (/bin)

I ran apt-get update

It updated a bunch of stuff.. I was then able to successfully run:

apt-get install synaptic

Then, in synaptic, I was able to find and install tcsh.

Many Thanks to kubicle and snowhog.

[kubicle]

Re: new install.. its missing stuff I need

I'll explain a bit (for future reference):

'apt-get update' will fetch a list of packages that are available from the repos (similar to "refresh" button in synaptic).

Without running apt-get update, the packaging system doesn't know what is available (or what's new/updated/changed) in the repos. So you'll want to run it before installing/upgrading packages (GUI package managers have a button to do the same, of course)

[unplugged]

Re: new install.. its missing stuff I need

Thanks for that piece of info, Kubicle. I shudda knowed all that by now. I am mostly a RH user, RHEL, CentOS and Fedora. I have also used SUSE, mandr[iva|ake] along the way (14 years). Not much of Debian/Ubuntu tho.. thus my ignorance/sloth for the latters package management. At least, I knew about Synaptic.

[Snowhog]

Re: new install.. its missing stuff I need

all problems are solved:

>>>>>I cd'ed into a dir in roots path (/bin) <<<<<

I ran apt-get update

Many Thanks to kubicle and snowhog.

Being in a dir in roots path is not necessary. If you do package management from the CLI (console), you just preface the appropriate command with sudo such as:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install package_name

And, you are welcome.

[unplugged]

Re: new install.. its missing stuff I need

Ahh, thanks for the help Snowhog.

I'll be drifting in and out here as I ease into this 9.10 KK release. I have also tried 7.04 and 8.10 before this but didn't use the product much afterwards; mostly evaluation. This is my first Kubuntu tho. I was waiting for a release with an improved version of KDE 4.

This is on my old-as-the-hills Toshiba Satellite 1415-S105 laptop as dualboot companion to WinXP. I wuz looking at new ones but once I saw that many were still using 1.6Gig CPUs, I decided to keep the Toshiba and upgrade it. For about $85, I swapped the 20gig HDD for a 160gig and maxed out the RAM. Now, it has more space to spread out things. Suits me