apt-get failing to find upgrades

[David Coventry]

>While I'm not the programmer you are, I'm 51 and I can sympathize with
>you on this.

Now you're making me feel like a fraud! I'm actually 50 myself!

>It seems really strange that you can't get apt to work for you. Though
?I have several years operating many various Linux distributions, I'm
>completely 64 bit unknowledgable.

Yes, I think this is the key.

Still, you buy yourself a 64 bit machine, how can you possibly run a 32 bit OS?

>Best of luck to you.

Thanks very much for you assistance thus far. I suspect it's going to be a long haul.....



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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