problem with packages shipped with 6.06

[John K Masters]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:26:32 +0530
ice <ice.simx at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Ubuntu,
> 
> ubuntu is really a ver great distro, and i want to do my work on it. But...
> 
> I have ubuntu 6.06, It fails to install in gui mode, but install painlessly
> in text mode.
> 
> It works fine, gui is great, but there are lots of packages that i cann't
> install on my system.
> I'h pentium-4, 1.7 GHz, 80 GB HDD - on using add/remove application, error
> appears "THIS APPLICATION IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR YOUR SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE" ---
> what is this????
> 
> Kindly help me out,
> 
from a console do:-

sudo apt-get update

then try again

Regards, John