PS Re: VVDQ : Alpine on Ubuntu??

[Beartooth Testbedder]

On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:03:36 -0500, Beartooth Testbedder wrote:
[...]
> Fetched 3B in 1s (2B/s)
> Reading package lists... Done
> btth at SblzUb:/$
> 
> If I'm reading that right, it finished -- but didn't do anything. Nor did
> it give me any message saying nothing needed doing ...
> 
> So am I ready to try to upgrade??

The last couple times I tried and failed with the GUI, I've just realized,
were with the Package Manager -- the one that runs
/usr/bin/gnome-app-install

So, just now, I invoked Synaptic. It gives me a message saying :

You have 1 broken package on your system!

Use the "Broken" filter to locate it.

Filter? Filter??

I did get into Synaptic when I sent that message away. Poking around it, I
found something under Edit called Fix Broken Packages. I clicked it, and
Synaptic gives me a little message on the bottom, saying "Successfully
fixed dependency problems."

*Then* I found the Filter entry under Settings -- with Broken already set;
I ran it, and it seems again to have succeeded.

Then I tried opening Repositories. All the ones in there now are marked
LTS, and only a few -- particularly Backports -- are unchecked.

It says I can add more. It let me add "Community maintained (Universe)"
and gave me a new popup  telling me to click on the Reload button; I did.

It wanted to remove Alpine completely. I let it.

Then I told it to install it again. It says I can't.

So how do I find what repo(s) I need to add, either for Alpine or for an
upgrade?

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck, Double Retiree,
Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User : F8, C5.1, U6.06;
I have precious (very precious) little idea where up is.