add/remove software

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:35:15 -0500
Erik Schmidt <eschmidt90 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, I typed updateb first
> 
> I am using 6.10
> 
> the results for $ dpkg --list build-essential are:
> 
> "no packages found matching build-essentials"

[snipped]

It's "build-essential" ( singular) - but that is kind of irrelevant, since
it appears your sources are misconfigured.

In GNOME, do the following:

1. Click on System - Administration - Software Properties  ( menu entry )
2. Give your password when prompted, then
3. Check the "Channels"  for main, universe, and optionally multiverse .
(You can also check backports, but unless you know that you need backports,
this is not necessary or particularly desirable.)
4. (a) Either  open a terminal and type

sudo apt-get update

or

(b) Open the Synaptic package manager and hit "Reload"  (either of these
will ensure that your listing of available packages is up to date)

5. Install the "build-essential" package. You can do this by typing

sudo apt-get install build-essential                         or

use Synaptic to install that package.

If this still results in errors, please post a copy of
your /etc/apt/sources.list  file

Peter