Problem w/Adept

[thejman]

Hello all. I have a problem. I'm new this and am not sure if I have looked in the right place for the answer, but I cannot open/run Adept. I was trying to install WINE (which I could not find in Adept, by the way) & I think I messed something up. every time i try to open it I get an error "Could not open cache-Adept deb http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt/ binary/".

have no idea what i did. any suggestions. please note that i am VERY new at this, so please give details w/any explanations.

thanks,,,

[Hose]

Re: Problem w/Adept

What's in your /etc/apt/sources.list file? Can you copy the contents?

[thejman]

Re: Problem w/Adept

Yeah, I'll have to do it when I get home though. Will be after 5pm.

BTW, thanks for the speedy reply, that's awesome!

[thejman]

Re: Problem w/Adept

Here it is:

deb http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt/ binary/
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

I may have messed something up in here when trying to do something else, but I don't know...

Whadya think?

[sky]

Re: Problem w/Adept

Hi,

first I can see is that cdrom source is not commented, big source of troubles (if you don't always have the cd inserted)
You can comment it by adding a # on the beginning of the second line, like this :
#deb cdrom:[Kubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Release i386 (20051012)]/ breezy main restricted

Hope it will help

[thejman]

Re: Problem w/Adept

Oooohhhh, so that's why I kept getting the cdrom error too!

Thanks, sky. I'll try that as soon as I get home (away from this evil Windows machine @ work). I'll let you know.

Thanks again.

[thejman]

Re: Problem w/Adept

Ok, tried commenting the second line as you said Sky, but when i try to save it I get an error :

The document could not be saved, as it was not possible to write to file:///etc/apt/sources.list.
Check that you have write access to this file or that enough disk space is available.

Any suggestions for this one I KNOW there ie enough disk space & I also tried running the command as root, but that didn't work either. Should i be logging in as root to make these changes?

[aysiu]

Re: Problem w/Adept

Close everything and then press Alt-F2 and type

kdesu konqueror

then edit your /etc/apt/sources.list

[Nirvana]

Re: Problem w/Adept

or even quicker: sudo kwrite /etc/apt/sources.list

scroll to the bottom & add:

deb [url]http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt/[/url] binary/

[thejman]

Re: Problem w/Adept

Sorry for not responding. Everything is good now.

Thanks for all of your help, guys!