Apt-Get Problems

[SiberTigr]

Alright, i had Kubuntu a while ago, till it decided to play the "i'll corrupt myself for no apparent reason" I gave up on it for a while till my laptop started slowing down and got sick way too much stuff on it so i reformatted and installed Kubuntu (i think its 6.10)

I remember some of how to go about stuff, like installing packages with sudo apt-get install package

But every time i try this, i get a package not found or some such. If i recall correctly, last time i had a friend that changed some file that let me use apt-get to install from the internet.

I just want to be able to use apt-get to install programs since that seems to be the easiest way for me to do it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Rog131]

Re: Apt-Get Problems

Did you:

sudo apt-get update

first ?

man apt-get

update
update is used to resynchronize the package index files from their sources. The indexes of available packages are fetched from the location(s) specified in /etc/apt/sources.list. For example, when using a Debian archive, this command retrieves and scans the Packages.gz files, so that information about new and updated packages is available. An update should always be performed before an upgrade or dist-upgrade. Please be aware that the overall progress meter will be incorrect as the size of the package files cannot be known in advance.

Link:
FAQ: Package Managers

[SiberTigr]

Re: Apt-Get Problems

Yeah, i updated and i added the universe and multiverse lines of code to the one file that i thought was my original problem...

I really only need Firefox and GAIM (pidgin) and i would like to get frozen bubble (2). I can settle for those even if i can't get apt-get to work....

[Rog131]

Re: Apt-Get Problems

package not found or some such

and

I really only need Firefox and GAIM (pidgin) and i would like to get frozen bubble (2). I can settle for those even if i can't get apt-get to work....

Can you post whole error message when you:

sudo apt-get install firefox

and what tells:

sudo apt-get update

any errors ? Output to the log file:

logsave output.txt sudo apt-get update

(Additional Options -> Attach output.txt)

[leadwt]

Re: Apt-Get Problems

"i'll corrupt myself for no apparent reason"

(SiberTigr)

I used to play that game too, but it only seems to run on Windoze.

[SiberTigr]

Re: Apt-Get Problems

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package firefox 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
However the following packages replace it:
libnss3
E: Package firefox has no installation candidate

The error message that i get when trying to install firefox...
There aren't any errors when i update...

And when i install pidgin it simply says that the package pidgin cannot be found...

[Rog131]

Re: Apt-Get Problems

Package firefox 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
However the following packages replace it:
libnss3
E: Package firefox has no installation candidate

=> Hmm - strange - maybe: Kubuntu woes and there Jucato's tips.

and installed Kubuntu (i think its 6.10)

Hmm #2 that is a bit old, support will end: 2008-04 (by Kubuntu wiki)

Kubuntu version info: Topic: any quick way to know what version of kubuntu one is running.

[Smatt454]

Re: Apt-Get Problems

could you show the output of

cat /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/sources.list

[SiberTigr]

Re: Apt-Get Problems

could you show the output of

cat /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/sources.list

# See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
# CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted

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

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


As for which version i'm using, i got the one that had the longest support that i saw... 7. whatever they said that support was limited and the version i grabbed would still have support...