Zach (and others) thanks a lot for this information. This all makes perfect sense - after it has been explained. Much appreciated, Mike <div>On 1/24/06, Zach <<a href="mailto:uid000@gmail.com">uid000@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> libpam-ldap is in universe change the following line: deb <a href="http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu">http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> breezy main restricted to: deb <a href="http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu"> http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> breezy main restricted universe to enable the universe repository (you can also add "multiverse" to enable that repository as well). Be sure to do the same for your various " <a href="http://ubuntu.com/ubuntu">ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a>" updates entries as well so you can grab universe updates as they become available. /* Some side notes for optimizing your sources.list: */ Disable deb-src lines except for instances when you actually need to download source code for a package. This will optimize the apt-get update operation, since there will be less package info to download. Also disable third party repositories, except for when you need to get something specifically from them. Often times they will have packages that are newer/higher versions than what is in the Ubuntu repos and that will cause apt to grab those unofficial packages during an upgrade operation. It's best to keep third party packages to a known set that you explicitly allow. For example I have marillat & debian repositories in my sources.list, but they're commented out except for when I need them. I don't want to accidentally install non-ubuntu packages that I'm not aware of. This also will cause those third party packages to show up in the local/obsolete section in synaptic, allowing for easy removal in case of breakage. As some have mentioned, having multiple mirrors in sources.list isn't necessary. They just result in unecessary package data that has to be downloaded during each apt-get update operation. To my knowledge apt isn't smart enough to grab packages from the "best" mirror. I think it will download from the first in the list. Having the additional mirrors listed in case one is down might be useful, but in that case, just have them commented out, and enable them if/when necessary. Again, third party repositories are best disabled except when explicitly required. On 1/24/06, Mike Kenny <<a href="mailto:inzanix@gmail.com"> inzanix@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Every howto or reference I can find tell me that I need to execute > $ sudo apt-get install libpam-ldap libnss-ldap > > but this reports: > > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > E: Couldn't find package libpam-ldap > > My /etc/apt/sources.list contains the following: > > deb <a href="http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu"> http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> breezy main > restricted > deb-src <a href="http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu">http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> breezy main > restricted > deb <a href="http://users.lichtsnel.nl/~seveas"> http://users.lichtsnel.nl/~seveas</a> breezy-seveas freenx > deb <a href="http://mirror.ubuntulinux.nl/">http://mirror.ubuntulinux.nl/</a> breezy-seveas freenx > deb <a href="http://mirror2.ubuntulinux.nl/"> http://mirror2.ubuntulinux.nl/</a> breezy-seveas freenx > deb <a href="http://mirror3.ubuntulinux.nl/">http://mirror3.ubuntulinux.nl/</a> breezy-seveas freenx > deb <a href="http://free.linux.hp.com/~brett/seveas/freenx/"> http://free.linux.hp.com/~brett/seveas/freenx/</a> > ubuntu-seveas freenx > deb <a href="http://seveas.ubuntulinux.nl/">http://seveas.ubuntulinux.nl/</a> breezy-seveas freenx > > and I have executed > $ sudo apt-get update > > Is there some other site that I need to add to this file? For that matter, > I am pretty new to Ubuntu (and Debian) so if anybody could provide me with a > known good sources.list or tell me what I am doing wrong, assuming that that > is not the problem, I wou appreciate it. > > Thanks, > > Mike > -- > ubuntu-users mailing list > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> > > > -- If you reply to a message I posted to a mailing list, and you want me to see your reply, be sure to put my address in the 'To:', or I might not see the message. -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com </a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>