Hi All,
I am using Knoppix 3.4. Today i went to install thunderbird and after installing I attempted to start the program. I got an error message that GLIBC_3.2.3 was need, no worry I'll just apt-get it.

First off the package does not exist. So i tried various combanations of the name, uppercase, lowercase etc. then i decided to just do a system upgrade. Problem with that is.... apt is hanging. Its always hanging on ftp2.de.debian.org.

A quick check of /etc/apt/sources.list shows that almost all of the sources are from there.... although they are listed several times. I really do not know what to do at this point. Apt is not cooperating and i can not get thunderbird to work because of this. I know I have properly installed thunderbird in the past on knoppix (albiet it was 3.3) any help would be greatly appreated.

shane

First use "su" command to get root privileges and then try "apt-get -f install" command. This often helps when APT gets tangled.

Knoppix probably comes with Synaptic, which is a GUI for apt-get and you can use it to download and install packages. I haven't used Synaptic for a while but I seem to recall that it has a "fix broken packages" button that does practically the same thing as the "apt-get -f install" command.

same result as before....

This is pissing me off

Perhaps you should visit Knoppix forums and use the search engine there. It is probable that other Knoppix users have encountered the same problem -- and maybe omeone has already found a solution.

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/

thanks! that resolved it just wonderfully.... for anyone in the future searching LQ for the solution to this problem you need to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and remove the '2' that follows ftp in many of the sources.


shane

you can add debian repositories with the following command

as root

apt-setup

this will give you a whole bunch of locations to configure /etc/apt/sources.list