Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu repositories

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Author: Hugo Mills
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu repositories

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On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 07:11:04PM +0000, hantslug@??? wrote:
> Having successfully installed KUbuntu 6.100 on a spare machine I set about
> updating it in order to install the "missing" (from my point of view)
> packages.
>
> I have been trying at least to be friendly to it, Al, honest. ;-)
>
> I have googled till my fingers are sore. It took ages to discover that I
> ought to have entered "Ubuntu repositories" as the search term, not "KUbuntu
> repositories". I did so, and duly used the info I finally gathered to alter
> my sources list. To no avail.
>
> Here is a sample of the error messages I am getting, from the edited
> sources.list. But I got the same error from the original, and for every
> package rither version attempted to get. I have deleted "gb" from the
> beginning of the line (after http etc., of course) and added multiverse. (As
> per the one example of a sources.list I found on the Ubuntu site.)


Can you post the exact (and complete) sources.list file for us?

Hugo.

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