<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD><META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><TITLE></TITLE></HEAD> <BODY>  <TABLE width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign="top"> <DIV align="left"> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">mixing Ubuntu sources with others is not recomended. There is a source refered to as universe that is commented out in .sources and it has many unsuported sources. However, I think it may not even be there, Its fairly easy to download and install from the java site (I have done it sucsesfully using docs from the java site.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">>>> Bo Rosén <brosen@bredband.net> 09/29/04 12:23pm >>></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I have used various distributions over a period of some six or seven</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">years but never a debian-based system before. I'm just an average user,</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I know nothing of programming and little more than what I have to about</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">keeping my system reasonably up-to-date.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I use Gentoo currently, and while this is a great distro I've been</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">looking for a nice desktop Gnome distro. So, after hearing about Ubuntu,</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I had to see it.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Install went without a problem, as far as I have been able to see after</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">a few hours everything works fine. I'm still a bit uncertain how to use</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">apt-get to full avantage, but time should fix that.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I tried installing sun-j2re1.4 from the great instructions on</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://serios.net/content/debian/java.php">http://serios.net/content/debian/java.php</a> </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">but I can't get 'sudo apt-get install sun-j2rel.4debian' to work. As far</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">as I can tell there's something wrong with fetching the list of packages</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">from ftp.se.debian.org </font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Sorry, this is in Swedish ;-) Essentially, it seems the lists of</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">packages can't be found, I'm probably doing something wrong. I tried</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">ftp.de.debian.org as well as suggested in a mail on this list.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Misslyckades att hämta</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/dists/debian/testing/binary-">http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/dists/debian/testing/binary-</a> </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 130.239.18.165 80]</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Misslyckades att hämta <a href="http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/dists/debian/non-">http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/dists/debian/non-</a> </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">free/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 130.239.18.165 80]</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Läser paketlistor... Färdig </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">W: Kunde inte ta status på källkodspaketlistan <a href="http://ftp.se.debian.org">http://ftp.se.debian.org</a> </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">debian/testing Packages</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.se.debian.org_debian_dists_debian_testing_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 Filen eller katalogen finns inte)</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">W: Kunde inte ta status på källkodspaketlistan <a href="http://ftp.se.debian.org">http://ftp.se.debian.org</a> </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">debian/non-free Packages</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.se.debian.org_debian_dists_debian_non- </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 Filen eller katalogen finns inte)</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I want mplayer as well as that is the only package I've ever managed to</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">get tv-out working with (I have a GeForce 4 MX400), and I need all those</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">proprietary codecs too.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Sun's java and mplayer are show-stoppers for me, I have subscribed to</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">this list to keep an eye on things. If packages like these can be</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">installed in an easy way, I'd love to switch over to Ubuntu as I've been</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">very impressed so far.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Keep up the good work</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Bo</font></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">-- </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">ubuntu-users mailing list</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">______________________________________________________________________</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">For more information please visit <a href="http://www.messagelabs.com/email">http://www.messagelabs.com/email</a> </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">______________________________________________________________________</font></div> <div> </div> <BR> ______________________________________________________________________<BR> This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential. 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