Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu repositories

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Author: hantslug
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu repositories
On Sunday 07 Jan 2007 19:15, Hugo Mills wrote:
> 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.


Thanks for the prompt reply, Hugo. :-) The supper is about to burn and it
will take me a while, so I'll do it later. (It's on another computer.)

Lisi