apt-get

[Johnny Rosenberg]

Someone suggested you to type ”sudo” right before the command itself.
You never replied to that one. Did you ever try it? It should work. I
think someone else misunderstodd the problem a bit and gave you an
unnecessary advice and that might have made you follow the wrong
track, or something like that.

First try the sudo thing, since you got ”Permission denied” when you
tried your command last time, which is expected since you need to be
root (”admin”, ”super-user”) to run these kinds of programs. The
command ”sudo” makes sure you are root temporarily (for the following
command only), which prevents you from doing stupid things, that you
can do if you login as root and forget to logout again.

J.R.

2009/8/28 Chris Taylor <chris.j.taylor at optusnet.com.au>:
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:41:38 -0400, Fred Roller wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 12:25 +0000, Chris Taylor wrote:
>>> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:19:48 -0400, Fred Roller wrote:
>>>
>>> > On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 12:12 +0000, Chris Taylor wrote:
>>> >> /usr/lib/apt/methods/httpp
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > This file is missing.  Try locating it on the system or replacing it.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your answer Fred but as I said I'm new to linux (Ubuntu
>>> 8.10) what am I looking for and how do I find it
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> run:
>>
>>       ls /usr/lib/apt/methods/
>>
>> which should yield similar to:
>>
>> froller at metis:~$ ls /usr/lib/apt/methods/ bzip2  cdrom  copy  file  ftp
>> gpgv  gzip  http  https  lzma  mirror rred  rsh  ssh
>>
>> It should not appear here (hence the error) and from what I have googled
>> it seems to control http proxy interaction for apt (the program).  I
>> have not used a proxy so am not familiar.
>>
>> Fred
>
> chris at chris-desktop:~$ ls /usr/lib/apt/methods/
> bzip2  copy  ftp   gzip  https  mirror  rsh
> cdrom  file  gpgv  http  lzma   rred    ssh
> chris at chris-desktop:~$
>
>
>
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