Kubuntu installation problems - addendum

[Bill]

For Torbjörn Lindgren

Hello,

I have discovered that the crucial file, etc/apt/sources.list is completely 
"commented out by the installer because it does not verify".

Thanks for the suggeston re DNS, but I do not think the problem is there 
because Konqueror connects to the intenet without difficulty.

Regards

Bill.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tobbe Lindgren" <tlinux at telia.com>
To: <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: Kubuntu installation problems - addendum


fredag 25 augusti 2006 05:48 skrev Alastair Preston:
> On Thursday 24 August 2006 11:23, Alastair Preston wrote:
> > On Thursday 24 August 2006 05:58, Bill wrote:
> > > Many thanks to Alistair Preston and Jonathan Jesse.
> > >
> > >  I started again and installed the live version only.  The modem was
> > > active and connected, Konqueror connected and did a google search
> > > without any problem.
> > >
> > > I tried your suggested command in the terminal, it did not work, but
> > > produced lots of text.  Essentially, connections could not be made or
> > > files found.  I tried to save the messages as a text file and as a 
> > > .doc
> > > file, but the live CD version does not appear to have access to either
> > > the floppy drive or my Windows FAT32 partitions.  I have found that
> > > even my incomplete installations do that.
> > > However, I found my way to the sources.list file and verified that the
> > > links to dapper main restricted are uncommented.  The only other
> > > references to repositories are to dapper universe, these are 
> > > commented.
> > >
> > > As you may guess, I am now back in Windows XP.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Bill
> >
> > Hmmm.. My sources.list had several other commented out entries; here's 
> > my
> > sources.list after uncommenting them and adding one other (I'm in 
> > Canada,
> > and noticing the ca, prefix, am now wondering if the mirror may have 
> > been
> > configured during install, possibly dependant on locale selection)
>
> As a follow-up I booted from a live CD and checked the pre-installation
> version of /etc/apt/sources.list in the ramdisk, and it has the
> non-localized repository listings, as follows:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted
> deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper 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://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe
> # deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe
>
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Perhaps you could try adding in the dapper-updates lines to the
> pre-installation sources.list (without the ca. localization in my previous
> post)  Mind you, it's also possible your local mirror is being 
> incorrectly
> configured during installation, in which case it may help to try another
> mirror...
>
> Al Preston

Hello!

I suffered from a similar problem when i installed dapper on my laptop.

The solution to this problem (for me, anyway) was to change the DNS in my
network settings to the actual DNS adress from my internet provider, they 
are
set as the machines IP by default. After that i could use apt-get, aptitude
and everything else to download and install updates.

I didn't try, but maybe it is possible to change the DNS settings before
install in order to get the system updated during installation.

My thread in kubuntuforum.org
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=8086.0

Extra repositories added in sources.list:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/sources.php
I did not have to change anything here.

Hope this helps!
Torbjörn Lindgren

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