9.04: no "third party" apps available ?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Wed, 13 May 2009 08:40:15 -0500
sktsee <sktsee at tulsaconnect.com> wrote:

> Hmm. Did you remember to update the package list after editing your
> sources.list? 

Yes, well the GUI did it for me. I used the "Software Sources" tool in
the Admin menu to modify the URL, and it asked me to update the index,
so I did it from there.

> $ sudo apt-get update

I just did like this too... just in case the GUI tool had some bug
causing it to fail to do it. BUt, still nothing in sight sadly.

> I'm not sure it's worth the trouble, really. The only packages in
> Canonical's jaunty repository seems to be Adobe's Acroread and
> Flashplugin. You can just go to
> http://archive.canonical.com/pool/pool/partner/a/ to get those packages.

Yeah sure, I was more thinking of filing the bug report for the sake of
shaking blatant/highly visible bugs, so that it "just works" for the
clueless people which are the main target of this Add/Remove tool. 
I would rather like things to work for people... shipping
essential (GUI apps target at Ubuntu's core audience of non-techy
people) yet non-working features, can't possibly do Ubuntu any good,
reputation-wise. So since I like Ubuntu, I would rather help it stay in
shape ;-)


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Vince