What is the "main" component ?

[Colin Law]

On 10 March 2010 23:18, MirJafar Ali <mirjafarali at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What is the main component in the following message that I get from Ubuntu
> 9.10

Googling for
You will have to enable the component called main
shows that this is a rather poorly worded message that means the the
'main' package source repository must be enabled.  Go to System,
Administration, Software Sources and on the Ubuntu Software tab ensure
that Canonical Supported Open Source Software (main) is enabled.

Colin

>
> @crash-06:~/Project736/e2fsprogs-1.41.10/doc$ latex texinfo.tex
> The program 'latex' is currently not installed.  You can install it by
> typing:
> sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base
> You will have to enable the component called 'main'
> latex: command not found
> @crash-06:~/Project736/e2fsprogs-1.41.10/doc$
>
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