Hi I posted before about not being able to access the repos. Its happening again... what I have found is when I run the live CD it works fine, I can see hundreds of apps, the games and misc categories appear automatically... as soon as I install it they don't come up, and I cant install anything.

Am I missing something?

Do you have the universe and multiverse repositorys in your /etc/apt/sources.list ?

I installed Kubuntu, went into adept and nothing was enabled. So I enabled them all, opened up Add Remove Programs and only the installed programs appear... no games and others this happened last time i installed it. It only ever lets me install all the others when i run the live CD.

Did you run an update after you enabled the repositories?

Persionaly I hate adept, install synaptic and you should be able to install all the packages you want

I hit "fetch updates", is that what you mean? or should i be doing something else?
im quite new to all this, ive only ever used CNR and synaptic.

After doing "fetch updates" it doesnt seem to do anything... pauses on 0% for about 2mins and then finishes but doesnt find any new 'packages'.

ok just did the fetch update again and nothing. Tried to install synaptic and this is what i got...


sam@sam-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install synaptic
Password:
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
sam@sam-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install synaptic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package synaptic is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package synaptic has no installation candidate


any ideas? Have i got something wrong, properties not set correctly?

Can you post your /etc/apt/sources.list

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe

ok very strange. I just removed all the .au from the repos and enabled 3 of them and it worked... 41 upgrades and about 1 thousand new packages. I tried to enable a few more and they just didnt work, instead of trying to load the stuff in the repos it would just sit and idle 'pretending' to load :P i pressed full update and it did the same thing.. nothing.

Im trying again now and it doesnt seem to be working... is there something i need to do like move the repos to the top? can i only use on deb and scr at a time? with synaptic i know i was only aloud to use one, but by default kubuntu enables all of them.

Unless I missed something.,Why would synaptic not already be installed?

deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
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Now, I am not by any means a pro, but i would add multiverse to these two lines, do a.,

'sudo apt-get update' and see waht happens!

as i said before i cant install synaptic, i just get an error when trying

adding multiverse does not do anything... as soon as i enable it i press fetch update and it just sits on waiting for headers 0% and then just does nothing. When it did work for some reason it actually showed it was downloading stuff from the server and it updated the header after this.

is it meant to run 'out of the box' or are you meant to fiddle around with settings before it works?

What OS are you using?

Synaptic comes with Ubuntu! You should not need to install it!

im using kubuntu and from what i can see it doesnt have synaptic.


sudo apt-get update returns this...

sam@sam-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get update
Password:
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg
Could not connect to archive.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...er/Release.gpg Could not connect to archive.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Reading package lists... Done
W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.