Hi! I'm new to UBUNTU!

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Fri Jun 4 18:56:19 UTC 2010


On Jun 3, 2010, at 12:54 PM, Maurice McCarthy <manselton at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Jorge
>
> I tried changing my mirror to  http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu in the
> Ubuntu tool that Steve mentioned "Software Sources" doing this is
> certainly quicker that changing lines manually and it includes lines
> like
>
> deb http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu/ubuntu/ lucid-security main restricted
> deb-src http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu/ubuntu/ lucid-security main  
> restricted
> deb http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu/ubuntu/ lucid-security universe
> deb-src http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu/ubuntu/ lucid-security universe
> deb http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu/ubuntu/ lucid-security multiverse
> deb-src http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu/ubuntu/ lucid-security multiverse
>
> I had no difficulties running aptitude update from here (United  
> Kingdom)
>
> Maurice
>
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I have resolved myself to downloading *.deb files and figuring out the  
dependencies the hard way.  Is there some trick to this to make it  
easier to get all the dependencies by hand when  aptitude is broken?   
I tried something simple like bzflag wirhout a problem, but sun-java6- 
jre is way too complicated!

A. Jorge Garcia
Applied Math & CS
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