Problems with apt-get update

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Sun, 2005-16-10 at 23:58 +0900, Dave M G wrote:
> Ubuntu Users,
> 
> 	1. Situation
> 	I've just recently installed Ubuntu, and I'd like to install a variety
> of multimedia and other applications.
> 	I read in another thread in this list that a place to get
> straightforward instructions on installing applications was here:
> 	http://www.ubuntuguide.org

Have you looked at the Ubuntu wiki?  It contains all sort of user
documentation, done by the community for the community:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDocumentation


> 	2. Problems
> 	When trying to run the suggested commands, apt-get would return errors.
> I'm wondering if this is because the web page refers to Ubuntu version
> 5.04, and I think I have version 5.10.

yes.


> http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy-backports/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz  404 Not Found
> Failed to fetch

backports are usually there to bring to older Ubuntu installations
applications found in the latest Ubuntu version (thus the name
"back-port").  Since you are running 5.10 already, you don't need the
backports, and they actually don't exist yet for Breezy since the next
version (Dapper) doesn't exist yet in the repositories.


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