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Install of 7.10

Asked by Daryl

I am a Newbie to Ubuntu trying to get away from windows. I downloaded 7.10 installed it on an IDE not SATA. Installation goes fine everything installs from the cd. However, when I try "sudo apt-get install kb3" or any file with the sudo apt-get install command nothing will install. Not even Nvidia drivers. I tried it in root but still won't install anything. Tried all the sudo updates still nothing. Downloaded a .deb file Ktorrent from the site, it won't install. No deb files will.
Now I have another computer I installed 7.04 on about a month ago and it works just fine. I have installed all sorts of programs on it including Ktorrent. I can install anything with that and it works great. It was updated from the net to 7.10. I don't understand why Ubuntu 7.10 won't work on the drive. I have installed windows on the drive and it works fine. I even downloaded 7.10 from two other computers thinking I had a bad file but I get the same result every time.
I tried two drives also. A Maxtor and a Deskstar. The machine that works is running a Segate SATA. Bothe computers are AMD 64 and yes I have had Ubuntu 7.04 running on both at one time. I used a KVM switch to go back and forth. After format and before install I did the fdisk/mbr command also. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

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Clóvis Fabrício (nosklo) said : 		#1

What messages does it show on the terminal when you try to install something? Give more information about the errors.

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Daryl (m252a1) said : 		#2

The same thing comes up every time. "can't find package k3b" "can't find
package G++" "Can't find package chechinstall" Every package is the
same. One time I did get an error but that was only once.
"Dependency is not satisfiable"
Thanks for the reply.
On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 09:54 +0000, ClovisFabricio wrote:
> Your question #16894 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/16894
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> ClovisFabricio requested for more information:
> What messages does it show on the terminal when you try to install
> something? Give more information about the errors.
>

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Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini) said : 		#3

Try with:
sudo apt-get -f install
and/or
sudo apt-get check

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Daryl (m252a1) said : 		#4

I tried both of those and get the same message.
"can't find package <file name>"
Thanks for the info. I think I might have to install Mandriva.

On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 17:29 +0000, Andrea Corbellini wrote:
> Your question #16894 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/16894
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Andrea Corbellini proposed the following answer:
> Try with:
> sudo apt-get -f install
> and/or
> sudo apt-get check
>

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Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini) said : 		#5

Can you please attach here the output of the command
cat /etc/apt/source.list
I think it is empty.

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Daryl (m252a1) said : 		#6

daryl@daryl-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install ktorrent
[sudo] password for daryl:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package ktorrent
daryl@daryl-desktop:~$

This is a copy of what I get with all installation I have even tried it
in root. Now, when I type this same thing on my Ubuntu 7.04 it will go
find the application and install it in a matter of seconds. This is the
forth install of Ubuntu 7.10 and all the installs look just like this.
Thanks for your time.
Daryl.
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 15:45 +0000, Andrea Corbellini wrote:
> Your question #16894 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/16894
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> Andrea Corbellini requested for more information:
> Can you please attach here the output of the command
> cat /etc/apt/source.list
> I think it is empty.
>

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Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini) said : 		#7

Please, attach here the output of the command
cat /etc/apt/source.list

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Daryl (m252a1) said : 		#8

On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 19:17 +0000, Andrea Corbellini wrote:
> Your question #16894 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/16894
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> Andrea Corbellini requested for more information:
> Please, attach here the output of the command
> cat /etc/apt/source.list
> daryl@daryl-desktop:~$ cat /etc/apt/source.list
 cat: /etc/apt/source.list: No such file or directory
daryl@daryl-desktop:~$

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Daryl (m252a1) said : 		#9

I finally got it to work but I don't know how. I can use the "sudo apt-get install" command ant it works.
I did something in the Package manager. I flagged all upgrades, reload, repositories and I clicked on some things in there and in the preferences then went back out to update manager and it downloaded 41 files and now I think I can use it. It is confusing because I never did any of this with 7.04 it just installed and everything worked.

Thanks to everyone that sent me the emails. I didn't understand them much but it got me to thinking enough to poke around until I got it going.