installing applications

[Tommy Trussell]

On 10/29/06, Cheatah 0#@!^ <cheataah at gmail.com> wrote:

> here is my /etc/apt/sources
>
>
> libxine-extraodec
> libxine-extraodec
>
> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
> # deb http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
> # deb-src http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
>
> ## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
> ## distribution.
> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
> # deb http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted
> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
> # deb-src http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted
>
> ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
> ## repository.
> ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
> ## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
> ## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
> ## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
> ## team.
> # deb http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
> # deb-src http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
>
> ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
> ## repository.
> ## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
> ## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
> ## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
> ## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
> ## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
> # deb http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main
> restricted universe multiverse
> # deb-src http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main
> restricted universe multiverse
>
> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
> # deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main
> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
> # deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main
> # deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
> # deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe

I've never seen those "line commented out by installer" items. Do you
have a valid Internet connection to the machine in question?

First of all, however, you will want to get rid of those strange lines
at the beginning. I don't at all know how those might have gotten into
your sources.list. Some sort of strange gremlin, indeed!

If you have X going (the graphical interface), you can use

  sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

and if X is not going you can use

  sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

after you remove those strange lines from the top, go through and
remove the single # in front of the first two "deb" lines. The server
DOES resolve from here, so I don't know how the installer didn't like
them, unless there's something wrong with your Internet connection.

Then run

  sudo apt-get update

and if that works,

  sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

and if your machine then finishes updating, you can uncomment some of
the other deb lines and sudo apt-get update again. Or use Synaptic to
do the whole thing.