apt-get failing to find upgrades

[mark]

David Coventry Wrote: 
> Okay, David, I apologise if I sound a little tetchy.
> 
> The fact is that I wrote my first progam in FORTRAN back in 1972 on 
> punch cards at Wits University.
> 
> Quite often I get young guys assuming that if I'm over 40, I know 
> nothing about computers. Generally, these guys assume that if they can
> 
> negotiate Windows, then they are experts.
> 
> Honestly, though, Ubuntu seems to be throwing up a whole lot of 
> unnecessary dificulties in the face of their users.
> 
> Why would you need to comment out the sources.list file, for example?
> 
> In any case, I can't install anything onto my machine: well, that's not
> 
> strictly true, I can download the tarball, untar and ./configure, make
> 
> and make install.
> 
> But I'm used to apt-get doing it all for me. And I don't see why it 
> needs to be such a chore.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
> David M. Carney wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 23:37:48 -0500, David Coventry
> <dc at davec.uklinux.net> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>David M. Carney wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 16:54:41 -0500, David Coventry
> <dc at davec.uklinux.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>>I'm a reasonably experienced linux user having started with SUSe
> some
> >>>>years back, and ended up with Ubuntu by way of Mandrake 6, Corel
> Linux,
> >>>>Gentoo and Knoppix, so I know my way around apt-get.
> >>>>
> >>>>However, on my install of Ubuntu, apt-get fails.
> >>>>
> >>>>I have used apt-spy to get mirrors, but am no closer to installing
> >>>>anything on my system.
> >>>>
> >>>>I have tried (for example) to install wine.
> >>>>
> >>>>The error message I get is 'E: Package wine has no installation
> candidate'
> >>>>
> >>>>Also 'W: You might want to run apt-get update to correct these
> problems'
> >>>>
> >>>>Replacing the original sources.list file (AFTER uncommenting out
> all the
> >>>>entries: what's the matter; are you deliberately laying down
> gotchas?),
> >>>>well that still produced the same errors.
> >>>>
> >>>>Dave
> >>>>
> >>>>--
> >>>>ubuntu-users mailing list
> >>>>ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> >>>>http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>Have you uncommented the "Universe" repository in your apt sources
> list?
> >>>
> >>>David
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>David:
> >>
> >>You see, I'm looking at your reply and I see somebody poking fun at
> how
> >>pathetic I am.
> >>
> >>As I tried to explain, I am not a newbie.
> >>
> >>As I tried to explain, I know enough to go into the sources.list file
> in
> >>/etc/apt/ and uncomment out the comments (why do you have to make it
> so
> >>difficult, are you trying to trip all the newbies up?).
> >>
> >>If that's how you guys get your kicks, that's fine.
> >>
> >>I'll just go and find another 64 bit distro.....
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >You did make it sound as if you had maybe done that, but I wanted to
> >be sure. It's a simple thing to miss; I did at first.
> >
> >People on this list, including me, don't try to make people feel
> >pathetic. I was only trying to help.
> >
> >David
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
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Fortran in '72?  Another antedeluvian!  Welcome!

Your comments indicate that you're working with the 64-bit distro, so
I'm not sure if my comments will help - however, herewith is my
-sources.list- file:
Code:
--------------------
    ## deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 4.10 _Warty Warthog_ - Preview i386 Binary-1 (20041020)]/ unstable main restricted  
  
  ## Not sure if this works, but lets find out...
  ## comment out the "standard" repos, leave the multiverse
  ## listings wide open...
  
  # deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ warty main restricted 
  # deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ warty 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/ warty universe 
  deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ warty universe 
  
  deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ warty-security main restricted 
  deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ warty-security main restricted 
  
  deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ warty main restricted universe multiverse 
  deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ warty-security main restricted universe multiverse 
  
  deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat testing main 
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 I hope you find something of help here...

Regards,

Mark


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