broken libqt4-dbus on 10-04 LTS

[Colin Law]

On 2 November 2012 20:02, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> On Friday 02 November 2012 15:32:07 Colin Law did opine:
>
>> On 2 November 2012 16:18, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
>> > On Friday 02 November 2012 12:12:42 Colin Law did opine:
>> >> apt-cache policy libqt4-dbus
>> >
>> > libqt4-dbus:
>> >   Installed: 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.4
>> >   Candidate: 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.4
>> >
>> >   Version table:
>> >  *** 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.4 0
>> >
>> >         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>>
>> Is that all it said?  I would have expected it to show the repository
>> also.
>>
>> Are you sure you installed it from the repository and not by
>> downloading a deb file?  That seems to be the right version though
>> [1].
>
> That was from the original install, from a nearly 18 month old respin of
> 10.04.4 LTS, the respin by the LinuxCNC guys, with a specially built RTAI
> enabled 2.6.32.122 kernel, designed to facilitate an i/o cycle that may
> loop every 20 microseconds and must do this loop with a timing jitter
> under 5 or so microseconds, so it never came from a 'repo', but from the
> installation cd.  Because RTAI is married to & compiled into the kernel,
> no kernel updates have ever been done to any of these machines.
>
> All machines are behind a dd-wrt router and it would take John months,
> maybe even years to hack that password. :)
>
> But I need to find a solution, much of my menu's are dead because of it.
>
>> Colin
>>
>> [1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/libqt4-dbus
>
> And why can't apt-get pull that?  Something wrong with my sources list?
>
> # deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 10.04 LTS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release i386 (20100429)]/ lucid main restricted
> # See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
> # newer versions of the distribution.
>
>
> ## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
> ## distribution.
>
> ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
> ## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
> ## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
>
> ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
> ## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
> ## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
> ## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
> ## security team.
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid multiverse
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates multiverse
>
> ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
> ## repository.
> ## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
> ## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
> ## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
> ## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
> ## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-backports multiverse
> # deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-backports main restricted universe multiverse
>
> ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
> ## 'partner' repository.
> ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
> ## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
> deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner
> deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner
>
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security multiverse
>
> # deb http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ lucid v2.5_branch-rt
> deb http://linuxcnc.org/ lucid base linuxcnc2.5
>
> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/freecad-maintainers/freecad-daily/ubuntu lucid main
>
> And I just added:
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security main
> to that list, which may help.  But I have added that line in the synaptic
> repo menu 3 times, then into /etc/apt/sources.list too, but synaptic
> refuses to show it in its repo listing despite several retarts.

I presume you have done
sudo apt-get update

Otherwise I am out of my depth I am afraid.

Colin

>
> Something busted here, but what?
>
>> > Since I don't have a copy other than going back to the install cd, it
>> > seemed strange that apt-get could not pull a fresh copy, like its been
>> > removed from the repo's.
>
> Cheers Colin, Gene
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