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gnome-terminal package

Package gdm 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 gdm has no installation candidate

Asked by flowerpower.pattiray

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

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Package gdm 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 gdm has no installation candidate
ubuntu@ubuntu-laptop:~$

Where do I get the gdm "missing" package???

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Mar 10 08:25:49 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
Package: gnome-terminal 2.22.1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-23-generic i686
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package

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This question was originally filed as bug #340556.

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flowerpower.pattiray (flowerpower-pattiray) said : 		#1
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) said : 		#2

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#3

paste the o/p of

sudo aptitude install gdm

gdm is in the repos

http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/gdm

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karen pulsifer (froggy1234) said : 		#4

Im Getting This how do I fix it I cant get no updates or any thing can someone please help me fix it E: Type 'sudo' is not known on line 61 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
E: Type 'b-src' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ferramroberto-java-natty.list
E: Type 'sudo' is not known on line 61 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
E: Type 'b-src' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ferramroberto-java-natty.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.
E: Type 'sudo' is not known on line 61 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
E: Type 'b-src' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ferramroberto-java-natty.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.
Thank you

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