8.04 update files

[Victor Padro]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

It appears that you learned english quite fast.



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