downloading from virtual terminal is not working

[ckon mapy]

On 12/05/2012 07:18 AM, adeel ahmad wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm first time using LINUX .
> I'm trying to download "git" using terminal, but the error comes like 
>  " *E: Unable to locate package git*   "
> My objective is to run QEMU. But i'm stuck in this situation.
> Also when i tried to run "software updater", its gives a fault like " 
> *failed to download repository information*".
> But my browser works fine (that's how i'm mailing you).
> I do not how to face it.
>
> Regards
> Adeel
>
>
Hi. Your probleme looks like  you have not downloaded updates yet.
So type sudo apt-get update (1)
and after that: sudo apt-get dist-upgrade (2)
it weel enable all your source packages in /etc/apt/source.list file.
 From this moment you will be able to download all you want and even 
"git" :)
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