8.04 update files

[Karl F. Larsen]

Shannon McMackin wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
>>     
>>> --- On Wed, 4/29/09, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> From: Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>
>>>> Subject: 8.04 update files
>>>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>>>> Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 1:14 PM
>>>> I have been using the GUI update software with 8.04 for some
>>>> long 
>>>> time. But in recent times the GUI does not work but using
>>>> sudo aptitude 
>>>> upgrade has worked just fine. It seems to work in spite of
>>>> the problems. 
>>>> Below is some of sudo aptitude update that shows me the
>>>> Ubuntu file 
>>>> setup is at fault. Here it is:
>>>>
>>>>  W: GPG error: http://dl.google.com stable Release: The
>>>> following 
>>>> signatures couldn't be verified because the public key
>>>> is not available: 
>>>> NO_PUBKEY A040830F7FAC5991
>>>> W: Failed to fetch cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ -
>>>> Release i386 
>>>> (20080423)]/dists/hardy/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 
>>>> Please use 
>>>> apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get
>>>> update cannot 
>>>> be used to add new CD-ROMs
>>>>
>>>> W: Failed to fetch cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ -
>>>> Release i386 
>>>> (20080423)]/dists/hardy/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz 
>>>> Please use 
>>>> apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get
>>>> update cannot 
>>>> be used to add new CD-ROMs
>>>>
>>>> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been
>>>> ignored, or old 
>>>> ones used instead.
>>>>
>>>> The call for a CD-ROM is very strange.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Karl, either remove the CD-ROM entrie(s) from your sources.list file or from your software sources file so Apt will quit looking for it.  That is not strange and you should know that.
>>> See if you can find the Public gpg key on  http://dl.google.com and install it.  Then you error messages shoud go away.  You might get better help if you told the list just what gui software you are using to update/upgrade with as there are several.
>>> HTH.
>>> Leonard Chatagnier
>>> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>     Sorry you can't read English! This CD-ROM stuff is FROM the Ubuntu 
>> servers! I am showing what I get from the request with $sudo aptitude 
>> update which comes FROM the servers.
>>
>>     So hope you learned something.
>>
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>
>>     
> Karl,
>
> You are wrong and misinterpreting what the manpages are saying.  What do 
> you think aptitude uses in order to find the repos?  It uses your 
> sources.list to check for updates and when you do a CD install, it keeps 
>   a record of that local install in your file.  Comment those lines out 
> that pertain to your CD-Rom and you won't get those errors.
>
> The servers would have no point of reference pertaining to your CD-Rom.
>
>
>   
    Yes it appears that man apt-get does not give any details. It does 
appear that apt-get update uses /etc/apt/sources.list to tell it which 
apt sources to check. And I found the bad entry and commented it out. 
That fixed the CD-Rom problem.

    And I got the google key installed with their wget bash file.


Karl