Thanks for taking the trouble to respond.
Quote:
Originally Posted by ondoho
what exactly did you try?
you need to show us, complete commands, complete output.
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Hi, I have spent well over 10 hours on this,over a period of a week or so and I now have no idea what I've tried I'm afraid - all I know is that nothing has worked.
I know I tried this: Synaptic->Custom Filters->Broken to see what appears to be broken. I get nothing from that, not even a "no results" response, so I can't tell if it's working
Quote:
also please post the output of
Code:
sudo apt-get update
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Thanks
jonathan@GIS ~ $ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for jonathan:
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