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