Error installing wget

[Ryan Gauger]

On 06/11/2012 10:54 AM, Mika Suomalainen wrote:
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> On 11.06.2012 00:08, Harsha Natarajan wrote:
>> Hello Nils
>>
>> After modifying the sources.list file as per your
>> instructions.....
>>
>> I still get the following error...E: Couldn't find package wget.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> -- Regards Harsha Natarajan
>>
>>
>>
> Did you run "sudo apt-get update" after modifying sources.list ?
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Wget should have been installed with Ubuntu, as it is on most other 
distributions. Was it uninstalled? I can't see the error, so my help 
will be limited. Running the command posted by Mika should work. If it 
fails, it may be a package error, or packages may be broken. Hope this 
helps. Thanks!