Could Not find very basic packages using APT...

[Fawad Nazir]

Hi All,

I am new to Ubuntu. I just installed Ubuntu-5.10-install-i386. I found
out that this is very basic distribution and does not have gcc, make,
glibc, ftpd type of packages in it.

I tried to use apt to get some of these packges. I added apt sources
from Australia and Unites States using apt-setup in apt source list
file.
Then i used apt-get install command to install the above mentioned
packages. I was only able to install gcc and make. For ftp i tried a
lot of ftp servers from http://packages.ubuntu.com, atlast was able to
install vsftpd and many of the ftp servers listed in pacakges were not
available. Similarly, i am still not able to install glibc.

Please tell me some good apt sites to list in my apt sourcelist, from
which i will be able to install most of the basic softwares.

I will be thankful.
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Fawad Nazir