medibuntu repository issue

[BloodiedFangs]

hey there. i'm fairly new to linux and i've just been playing around with kubuntu 8.04, trying to get it all sorted so i can do pretty much anything i'd do in my windows partition. however, i can't play wma's, as clearly they don't have support

however, i saw in another topic that if i added the medibuntu repository, i could get a codex for them. however, when i tried adding the repository, it started causing an error with the adept manager

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

so i tried running these commands in terminal (with sudo as a prefix...i'm assuming i need this to be able to mess with system components). however, the message i get with get update is "E: Type 'http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list' is not known on line 56 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list"

the message i get for setup is "sudo: apt-setup: command not found"

can anyone suggest a solution other than a clean install?

[Fintan]

Re: medibuntu repository issue

Which version of Kubuntu are you using?

Sorry I just read it again. You are in HH okay.

How did you add / install the medibuntu repositories?

If you added this line to your sources.list:

http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list

then delete it and do this:

sudo wget [url]http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list[/url] -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

and then this:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update

in a terminal.

This will give you the medibuntu repositories.

Do refresh in adept or sudo apt-get update and you can now install your cedecs and other multimedia stuff.

[BloodiedFangs]

Re: medibuntu repository issue

i tried using adept manager

i was pretty sure i'd done it through that before...but i could quite easily have been mistaken and have done something very stupid

[Fintan]

Re: medibuntu repository issue

Well, that is why you have to follow the instructions above.
It is confusing at first but makes absolute sense.

For more reading:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

[BloodiedFangs]

Re: medibuntu repository issue

i actually tried that first, but i couldn't get it to add. although that now looks like it was simply a connectivity problem

i still, however, have this problem
"michael@daemon:~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update
E: Type 'http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list' is not known on line 56 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list"

do you have any suggestions on what i could do to resolve this?

[Fintan]

Re: medibuntu repository issue

Can you post / paste your sources.list?

[toad]

Re: medibuntu repository issue

Or open Kate as root (on the command line, type "sudo kate"), open /etc/apt/sources.list, press F11 to show line numbers and comment line 56 out (put a hash - # - in front of it)

[Fintan]

Re: medibuntu repository issue

Sorry toad, why fstab? And for opening up kate as root PLEASE use kdesudo

[toad]

Re: medibuntu repository issue

Hi Fintan,

'cos I ALWAYS get fstab and sources.list mixed up (well, in forums anyway, not in real life) Have amended the post - thanks for pointing this out (perhaps I'll learn one day, but I doubt it).

BTW, why the insistence on kdesudo, sudo kate works just as well?

[BloodiedFangs]

Re: medibuntu repository issue

# deb cdrom:[Kubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release amd64 (20080423)]/ hardy main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted
deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted

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

## 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://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe
deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe

## 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
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse
deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse

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

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.
# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse
http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

this is the one, yes?

[Snowhog]

Re: medibuntu repository issue

Yes. You need to remove the last line:

http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

[BloodiedFangs]

Re: medibuntu repository issue

ok, thanks all for your help . looks like that's ticking over nicely now

[Fintan]

Re: medibuntu repository issue

Yep, as snowhog (and myself) said get rid of that line.

[Rog131]

Re: medibuntu repository issue

Toad:

BTW, why the insistence on kdesudo, sudo kate works just as well?

There is a warning in the > RootSudo :

You should never use sudo to start graphical applications as root. You should use gksudo to run such programs (eg. ALT+F2 gksudo gedit).

*For users of Kubuntu, use kdesu instead of gksudo.

Note: from the GutsyGibbon/Tribe5/Kubuntu onwards kdesudo should replace KDE Su.


Even more of the root/sudo/kdesudo > FAQ: Root Password

[toad]

Re: medibuntu repository issue

Thanks Fintan for pointing it out, Rog for providing some text - I still don't get it though. I do not want to be contrary and whenever I edit a text file as root I use vi in any case, so I never even thought about it... Are there more processes that are open if you use sudo instead of kdesu? Oh, never mind.

Back to medibuntu, if you want to bear with me - if you follow the instructions on their website, it is not apparent from you /etc/apt/sources.list that the repository is added. It shows up in adept or synaptic, but I fail to see it sources.list - for sake of clarity I prefer to see all the repos in my sources.list file and have therefore added

# medibuntu
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free

in time honoured, old fashioned manual style.

Have any of you experienced the same shortcoming or did I do something wrong?