Could Not find very basic packages using APT...

[Fawad Nazir]

Thanks a lot All of you. I finally solved the problem, by changing my
source list. It works now.

i finally compiled my hello world c program :).

Thanks very much for help.

On 5/1/06, David Symons <ubuntu at liberatedcomputing.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 08:13 +0500, Fawad Nazir wrote:
> > I had simlar problems when i used to GUI following
> > http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AddingRepositoriesHowto.
> >
> > I think i am missing some essential packages.
>
> Hi Fawad,
>
> I think your issues are stemming from changes to your sources.list file
> which lists the repositories that apt tools (such as Synaptic and
> apt-get) will use. I'd suggest opening it with
>
>     sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> and changing its contents to be the same as
>     http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/6047
> Then do a "sudo apt-get update" and retry your installs.
>
> > Which distribution do you recommend for kernel compilation and kernel
> > programming/development?
>
> Ubuntu would be fine for that (afaik).  It's just that what's on the
> install CD is more targeted to the general desktop user than the
> developer.  Once the internet repositories are enabled you have access
> to over 18,000 packages.  Plenty for the developer in there :) .
>
> Cheers, Dave.
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Fawad Nazir
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