sudo apt-get -s install msttcorefonts

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 14:10 -0400, John Dangler wrote:
> copy your apt sources.list to sources.list.orig, then try this
> in sources.list (it's from my dapper box which has been updated to edgy, then feisty)
> <snip>

> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
> deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
> 
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper multiverse
> deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper multiverse

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com on behalf of Dennis Mouille
> Sent: Sat 8/18/2007 2:08 PM
> To: Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions
> Subject: RE: sudo apt-get -s install msttcorefonts
>  
> 
> I guess your telling me I shouldn't be having this problem
> thanks - Dennis
> 
> mouille at castanos-laptop:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> <snip again>

> ## 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://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
> deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
> 
Does anyone else see the missing multiverse? If you do a clean install
of Dapper using the alternative 6.06.1 cd download, the sources.list
does not have multiverse as noted. It is in backports only. Is this
intentional, or is it an oversight that a bug report should be submitted
on? If you run an automatically generated sources.list through
http://www.ubuntu-nl.org/source-o-matic/ , then you will have multiverse
enabled. Otherwise, your list is missing multiverse and you will not
have access to many of the programs and files that you are told you
shold. 

That seems to be the root of the problem the led to this OP being told
he did not have the right repostitories enabled, and others being told
the same thing in this list. Reality is, they did exactly what they were
told, but the chances of being able to complete the steps were
impossible.

Is this a bug? If it is, I will file the report, since I failed to find
it in the bug reports.


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