Getting KDE 3.4.1 - a few questions

[Peter Barnes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: malandante <malandante at gmail.com> 
To: "Peter Barnes" <pjb at operamail.com>, 
kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com 
Subject: Re: Getting KDE 3.4.1 - a few questions 
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:31:23 +0200 
 
>  
> > Thanks for the (part) answer. 
> > I agree with your comments about learning, and know how 
to 
> > access the man pages on a Linux PC - but where do I 
find 
> > them on the Web when working from a Windows PC? Like 
many 
> > other people, I am having to learn about Linux while 
> > running a business and working in Windows. I often have 
no 
> > access to my Linux PC but still need to learn about 
Linux. 
> > 
> > Peter 
> > 
> I realized later that I hadn't answered all the 
questions. You don't 
> have to delete anything in sources.list, just adding a 
new source with 
> newer packages makes apt override the old ones. And when 
you command 
> apt-get upgrade/dist-upgrade, apt looks for what's 
upgradeable and 
> upgrades it all. Since what you have added in 
sources.list is a kde 
> only repository, you don't have to worry about other 
things getting 
> upgraded unless you had not upgraded your system 
previously. 
>  
> Man pages online can be found in several sites which you 
can easily 
> find googling linux man pages online. Consider that being 
apt-get a 
> debian specific tool, you may not find its man page in 
every man pages 
> online site you look for. 
 
I copied and pasted the line 
deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.4.1/kubuntu 
hoary-updates main 
into the etc/apt/sources.list file at the end. Then did 
apt-get update which ended with: 
Fetched 123kB in 2s (50.0kB/s) 
Failed to fetch 
http://download.kde.org/stable/3.4.1/kubuntu/dists/hoary-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz  
302 Found 
Reading package lists... Done 
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been 
ignored, or old ones used instead. 
 
The did apt-get upgrade and went through getting packafges 
and ended with: 
Fetched 109MB in 30m27s (59.6kB/s) 
but then got lots of the following: 
W: Couldn't stat source package list 
http://download.kde.org hoary-updates/main Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/download.kde.org_stable_3.4.1_kubuntu_dists_hoary-updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory) 
Extracting templates from packages: 2%W: Couldn't stat 
source package list http://download.kde.org 
hoary-updates/main Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/download.kde.org_stable_3.4.1_kubuntu_dists_hoary-updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory) 
etc etc..... 
 
Then a lot of "preparing" and "unpacking" and ending with: 
Errors were encountered while processing: 
 /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.4.0-0ubuntu3.2_all.deb 
W: Couldn't stat source package list 
http://download.kde.org hoary-updates/main Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/download.kde.org_stable_3.4.1_kubuntu_dists_hoary-updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory) 
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these 
problems 
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) 
 
Failed to fetch 
http://download.kde.org/stable/3.4.1/kubuntu/dists/hoary-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz  
302 Found 
Reading package lists... Done 
W: Couldn't stat source package list 
http://download.kde.org hoary-updates/main Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/download.kde.org_stable_3.4.1_kubuntu_dists_hoary-updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory) 
W: Couldn't stat source package list 
http://download.kde.org hoary-updates/main Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/download.kde.org_stable_3.4.1_kubuntu_dists_hoary-updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory) 
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these 
problems 
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been 
ignored, or old ones used instead. 
 
I presume this is trying to tell me I'm doing something 
wrong and it has failed to instal KDE 3.4.1?  
 
Peter 
 

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