bye bye xp help kubuntu and firefox

[teaker1s]

bye bye ibm hitachi deathstar and xp after years supporting xp users I've moved permantly-feel like a fool with os again but at least I'll not be having the vista DRM and microsoft closed system crap

firstly for no obvious reason I have lost harddisc and cdrom drives in system tab-strange thing is there still mounted and useable if I create a desktop link to device.-i note that this is a bug so I guess final release will cure this

Firefox missing libaries or dependancies-how do I cure this to install firefox on kubuntu 5.10rc

adept manager I have clicked enable in manage repositories but have no access to any universe programs-when the kubuntu final is released will the repositories appear or have I done something wrong?

[Patrick]

Re: bye bye xp help kubuntu and firefox

First enable all repos in your sources.list by doing the following: (remove the '#')

kdesu kate /etc/apt/sources.list

OR

kdesu kwrite /etc/apt/sources.list

Then in the konsole (K-Menu->System) type this in:

sudo apt-get update

then...

sudo apt-get install firefox

[teaker1s]

Re: bye bye xp help kubuntu and firefox

thanks and sorry to be a pain have done as you advised and konsole

Err http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security Release.gpg
  Could not connect to security.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out

am I being stupid or are repositories down?

[cddesjar]

Re: bye bye xp help kubuntu and firefox

That sounds like the repositories are probably down or if you are in a network you might not be registered with the administer (this happened to me).

[teaker1s]

Re: bye bye xp help kubuntu and firefox

Thanks for help so far I managed to update packages list once but it refused to update again and also to install firefox as it said it was un-avaliable if the below has any clues?

deb cdrom:[Kubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Release Candidate i386 (20051006)]/ breezy main restricted


## Uncomment the following two lines to fetch updated software from the network
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to fetch major bug fix updates produced
## after the final release of the distribution.
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted
# deb-src http://gb.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://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe
deb-src http://gb.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://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted

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

[Patrick]

Re: bye bye xp help kubuntu and firefox

try changing all http's to ftp

[kinalas]

Re: bye bye xp help kubuntu and firefox

could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (resource temp unavailable)
unable to lock the administration directory /var/lib/dpkg (is another process using it?)

[gnutux]

Re: bye bye xp help kubuntu and firefox

try running apt-get as an admin by using the sudo command.

gnutux

[teaker1s]

Re: bye bye xp help kubuntu and firefox

Repository problem caused by dns ip not seen by synaptic manually setting up static ip and dns cured it

[whoiam55]

Re: bye bye xp help kubuntu and firefox

could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (resource temp unavailable)
unable to lock the administration directory /var/lib/dpkg (is another process using it?)

check lsof /var/lib/dpkg/lock, this will list the programs accessing the /var/lib/dpkg/lock file, then trying killing those applications.