Hi! I'm new to UBUNTU!

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On Jun 1, 2010, at 3:35 PM, Maurice McCarthy <manselton at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Sorry Jorge, I've not been paying attention.
>
> You are getting these bzip2 error 2's on
>
> aptitude update
>
> So bzip2 is not corrupted. The update command downloads zipped package
> lists and compares a newly generated list of latest versions with
> /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin Apt then knows what is to be upgraded and
> what stays the same. You need someone more experienced than I to sort
> this out.
>
> Formerly there was a command to do a low level check on a cd
>
> readcd -c2scan dev=/dev/cdrom
>
> This command was part of cdrecord which has now developed into wodim
> but now it does not seem to be available. Presumably it is taken care
> of elsewhere but I cannot find anything. ...
>
> ... Some time later. Wodim is installed with Brasero the cd burner
> so ...
>
> Applications - Sound & Video - brasero - tools - check integrity
>
> Sorry but I am unable to help further. If the cd is good then I do not
> think the problems lies with Ubuntu.
>
> Best Wishes
> Maurice
>
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<sorry, top posted again...>
So, bzip2 itself is not corrupted?  Actually, that would be preferable 
as I could just "aptitude remove bzip2" and then download a *.deb for 
bzip2 from http://packages.debian.org, right?

A. Jorge Garcia
Applied Math & CS
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