problem with acroread and repositories

[Bob Nielsen]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 05:24:42PM -0800, LoA cd wrote:
> hi i am new to ubuntu and i am trying to install
> acroread  but i cant. i get an error meesage every
> time. it is like this:
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Package acroread is not available, but is referred to
> by another package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been
> obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source
> However the following packages replace it:
>   acroread-debian-files
> W: Couldn't stat source package list
> http://ubuntu-bp.sourceforge.net warty-backports/main
> Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/ubuntu-bp.sourceforge.net_ubuntu_dists_warty-backports_main_binary-amd64_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list
> http://ubuntu-bp.sourceforge.net
> warty-backports/universe Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/ubuntu-bp.sourceforge.net_ubuntu_dists_warty-backports_universe_binary-amd64_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these
> problems
> E: Package acroread has no installation candidate
> 
> i have updated apt-get and hav universe enabled. i
> still get this error. not only does this affect
> acroread it also affects alot of other software i try
> to install. can someone help me fix this problem?
> thanks in advance.

I believe you need to enable multiverse (at least that is where it is in 
hoary).