[ubuntu-za] Intrepid Heron - Hardy Ibex

[David Robert Lewis]

Lee Sharp wrote:
> David Robert Lewis wrote:
>
>   
>> No luck, the xorg is now broken - my mouse and keyboard not registering. 
>> Did a dpkg and there are broken packages that need to be fixed and the 
>> only repos are canonical (international bandwidth). Is there some way to 
>> force dpkg to seek the local repos?
>>     
>
> You will have to find the actual local repos, and put them in manually. 
>    I would disable GDM and see what you can do from the cli to get the 
> packages back.  Jump into /etc/apt with nano and clean up sources.list 
> to start.  If you have a LiveCD or other working system, you can use the 
> GUI "Software Sources" to "select Server" and choose other to find the 
> closest.  The other commands you may need are "sudo apt-get update" 
> "sudo apt-get upgrade" and "sudo dpkg --configure -a" to fix broken 
> packages.
>
> 			Lee
>
>   
Definitely. Good advice from everybody on this list as per usual. Will 
give it a bash when I have time, (excuse the pun) running overtime on 
the set of the Clint Eastwood/Morgan Freedman Mandela movie, so my 
advanced ubuntooing, is on hold for the meanwhile, besides, my housemate 
thinks I am completely bonkers for getting involved with a CLI, but this 
is the unusual thing about Ubuntu - it does amazing things in places I 
swore I would never return to, not after the MSDos/DrDos fiasco 
pre-Internet. (Now that takes me back).

So thanks to all for helping and being there, and fighting the good 
fight, Ubuntu is the future. Ubuntu is our ZA dream. Later.