Adept Problem

[waldick]

Hi, totally new guy here...

I tried to manage the repositories in Adept and must have screwed something up...now i get the folowing error message:

"The APT Database could not be opened! This may be caused by incorrect APT configuration or something similar. Try running apt-setup and apt-get update in terminal and see if it helps to resolve the problem."

i know how to get to the file mentioned via the text editor, but it will not let me save the modified file...no permission...

here's what the referenced file looks like:

ttp://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
deb cdrom:[Kubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Release i386 (20051012)]/ breezy main restricted


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

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

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## 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://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe

## 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://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted

# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe



help...

thanks,

j

[aysiu]

Re: Adept Problem

Try

sudo apt-setup

or

sudo apt-get update

For an up-to-date sources.list, go here: http://www.psychocats.net/linux/sources.php

[waldick]

Re: Adept Problem

when i do that i get this:

E: Type 'http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu' is not known on line 2 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list

i think i screwed something up trying to add a universal repository...

[aysiu]

Re: Adept Problem

when i do that i get this:

E: Type 'http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu' is not known on line 2 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list

i think i screwed something up trying to add a universal repository...

Follow these instructions I linked to earlier:
http://www.psychocats.net/linux/sources.php

[waldick]

Re: Adept Problem

Yeah, it worked...

I appreciate the help ....

now, what did i do and why did i do it ?

i would like to learn as much as i can, that way i won't have to ask stupid questions in the future...

thanks again,

j

[aysiu]

Re: Adept Problem

Glad it all worked out for you, and I'm glad you want to learn stuff. These translations might help.

sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list_backup

Translation: with root privileges, make a copy of this file, and call the copy sources.list_backup.

sudo kwrite /etc/apt/sources.list

Translation: with root privileges, open the sources.list file with the editor KWrite

Then the sources.list you paste in there has a list of online repositories from which Adept/Synaptic/apt-get/KPackage or whatever gets both lists of what software's available and the software itself.

sudo apt-get update

Translation: get the list of what's available from my current sources.list

sudo apt-get install blahblahblah

Translation: install blahblahblah from the repositories in my sources.list

[Nirvana]

Re: Adept Problem

also, for more information about sudo and root privelledges try reading: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RootSudo