tool used to download packages?

[Joe Hart]

Earl Violet wrote:

<snip>

> I am using Dapper but found changing the above to:
> 
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy main restricted universe
>  multiverse
> deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy main restricted
> deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy universe multiverse
> deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-backports main
> restricted universe multiverse
> 
> helped me a lot in getting things moving.

You sure you're running Dapper?  If you are, then using the edgy repos 
is just asking for trouble.  Just out of curiosity's sake, which kernel 
are you running?  Did you ever issue the command:  sudo apt-get 
dist-upgrade?