Hi! I'm new to UBUNTU!

Karl Larsen klarsen1 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 1 12:09:36 UTC 2010


On 05/31/2010 05:36 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Calcpage<calcpage at aol.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> OK,  but one problem I am having is getting apt-get to install
>> anything!  I haven't used apt-get since last school year, but if
>> memory serves there's some way to update what repository it's using?
>> Maybe there's a better one for me to use?  I can't even 'get apt-cache
>> search xyz' to do anything!
>>      
> "sudo apt-get update"
>
>    
         Try sudo apt-get update which gets the needed repository(s) and 
then try sudo apt-get upgrade and that will update your Ubuntu.


73 Karl


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