[clue-tech] Clueless, pun intended

[Bill Smith]

Hi David, this is a different computer and OS than the one you saw, it's working fine. This on has a 32 bit system and a different set of software packages that I'm trying to maintain

> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:24:06 -0600
> From: anselmi at anselmi.us
> To: clue-tech at cluedenver.org
> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Clueless, pun intended
> 
> Bill Smith wrote:
> >
> > Anybody have any idea why this  isn't working?
> >
> > root at localhost ~]# apt-get update Get:1 ftp://ftp.ch.debian.org pclinuxos/2007 release Ign
> > ftp://ftp.ch.debian.org pclinuxos/2007 release Get:1 ftp://ftp.ch.debian.org pclinuxos/2007/main
> > pkglist Err ftp://ftp.ch.debian.org pclinuxos/2007/main pkglist Unable to fetch file, server said
> > 'Failed to open file.  '
> 
> Because the server doesn't have those directories.
> 
> > Some background, when I installed this  2009 CAELinux 32 bit distro, synaptic package manager was
> > disabled by default and I can't get "aptitude" to run. The only thing I can see is the PClinuxOS
> > 2007 is rpm based, I think, not debian. I also don't know how to check my sources list in the
> > terminal. All I want to do is make sure the install is up to date as much as possible, while not
> > causing any problems with broken dependencies.
> 
> We did an update at installfest, right?  Does the Update Manager still work?  If it does and all you 
> want is updates, use it.
> 
> There's also gnome-app-install (the add/remove software menu item, may not be available on Ubuntu 
> 8).  I saw someone else use that.  It seems to be the dummies package manager.  I didn't like it 
> because it hides too much detail about the packages themselves.  (Or perhaps it only shows Gnome apps.)
> 
> And then Synaptic is the standard, GUI, way to manage packages.
> 
> All of these use /etc/apt/sources.list to know what repositories to use, and all the GUI tools seem 
> to have a dialog to change the contents of the file.
> 
> Any idea what you did to put the pclinuxos nonsense into your sources.list?
> 
> Dave
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