Today's Jaunty updates and Acroread

Nigel Ridley nigel at prayingforisrael.net
Sat Apr 18 15:07:18 UTC 2009


Paul S wrote:
> Nigel Ridley said the following on 04/12/2009 05:26 AM:
>> apt-get install acroread' (all without the quotes).
> 
> I can't find acroread in the jaunty repos.  I just get an error that it 
> doesn't exist.  I do have the partner repos enabled in my 
> /etc/apt/sources.list.  Could you share your sources list or do 
> "apt-cache policy acroread" and paste the output so I can add it to my 
> sources list?
> 
> TIA
> 
> paul :~$ apt-cache policy acroread
> W: Unable to locate package acroread
> 
> paul :~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> #deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kde3-maintainers/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
> 
> # See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
> # newer versions of the distribution.
> 
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted
> deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted
> 
> ## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
> ## distribution.
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main restricted
> deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main restricted
> 
> ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
> ## team. 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/ jaunty universe
> deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty universe
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates universe
> deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-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://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty multiverse
> deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty multiverse
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates multiverse
> deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-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://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-backports main restricted 
> universe multiverse
> deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-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 jaunty partner
> deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jaunty partner
> 
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security main restricted
> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security main restricted
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security universe
> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security universe
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security multiverse
> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security multiverse
> 
> 

No sooner said than done:

nigel at nigel:~$ apt-cache policy acroread
acroread:
   Installed: 9.1.0-7jaunty1
   Candidate: 9.1.0-7jaunty1
   Version table:
  *** 9.1.0-7jaunty1 0
         500 http://archive.canonical.com jaunty/partner Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
nigel at nigel:~$


Blessings,

Nigel




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