More Synaptic Problems

oz · 01-13-2008

Originally Posted by Euralis

I copied and pasted what was in your post box into the source.list.

It appears that your changes to the sources.list file did not save properly. You must have root permissions to edit any file outside of your own /home directory.

Edit: ...and here's a good place you can check for current mirrors.

**Euralis** · 01-13-2008

If it did not save properly ozar; how is it that it could generate those "new error messages?" What I can tell you is that I opened G-edit (my base text editor) in the terminal after typing su and then my password. Initially on my previous thread, it would not let me modify them without getting those permissions. I have thus far experianced nothing like that other than this message in the terminal which may or may not be related. This is the message:
(gedit:19074): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.
Do you think this may have anything to do with it?

oz · 01-13-2008

Sorry, my fault... I was in a hurry when I posted and didn't compare the two sets of errors closely, and the Oregon State stuff confused me a bit.

Go to the command line, su to root, and then enter:

Code:

apt-get update

Post any errors here.

One other thing... the computer with the broken apt-get is the same computer that you are using to post here on the forums, right? In other words, internet connection works fine?

**Euralis** · 01-13-2008

That is correct Ozar: I am posting on this forum with the very same computer so its not an internet problem. The apt-get thing was fine until the very last line in the terminal.

mikeshome:/home/michael# apt-get update
Get:1 Debian -- Security Information stable/updates Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 Debian -- Security Information stable/updates Release [22.5kB]
Get:3 Debian -- Security Information stable/updates/main Packages [213kB]
Get:4 Debian -- Security Information stable/updates/contrib Packages [14B]
Get:5 Debian -- Security Information stable/updates/non-free Packages [14B]
Get:6 Debian -- Packages stable/non-US Release.gpg [197B]
Get:7 Debian -- Packages stable/non-US Release [18.5kB]
Get:8 ftp.osuosl.org :: Oregon State University Open Source Lab stable Release.gpg [378B]
Ign Debian -- Packages stable/non-US Release
Get:9 ftp.osuosl.org :: Oregon State University Open Source Lab stable Release [58.2kB]
Ign Debian -- Packages stable/non-US/main Packages
Ign Debian -- Packages stable/non-US/contrib Packages
Ign Debian -- Packages stable/non-US/non-free Packages
Get:10 Debian -- Packages stable/non-US/main Packages [20B]
Get:11 Debian -- Packages stable/non-US/contrib Packages [20B]
Get:12 Debian -- Packages stable/non-US/non-free Packages [20B]
Get:13 ftp.osuosl.org :: Oregon State University Open Source Lab stable/main Packages [4280kB]
Get:14 ftp.osuosl.org :: Oregon State University Open Source Lab stable/contrib Packages [59.6kB]
Get:15 ftp.osuosl.org :: Oregon State University Open Source Lab stable/non-free Packages [83.4kB]
Fetched 4736kB in 3m21s (23.5kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: Debian -- Packages stable/non-US Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY F1D53D8C4F368D5D
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

by the way: i can get packages from outside my computer now, so it atleast partially worked

oz · 01-13-2008

Glad it's working for you now.

The public key messages are really just warnings, and not errors. You can check this page at the Debian wiki for more info on how to stop/fix that matter.

The apt-get update command is important because they drop updated and/or new packages into the repos each and every day, and they replace the list of available packages. You should always run apt-get update before doing anything else if you intend to install or update packages, and of course do the same if you should change your mirrors.

Have fun with your Debian system.

**Euralis** · 01-13-2008

Thanks for the help Ozar. One last thing; If i want to add a repository to the list, what is the correct way of doing it? Could you give me an example from the ubuntu mirrors list?

Sorry for the trouble, all i have ever had experiance with is YAST on SUSE.

oz · 01-13-2008

It would not be wise to mix Ubuntu mirrors with Debian mirrors (or Debian systems) because there are some differences in their packages. If you should switch to Ubuntu, that would be different.

Probably the easiest way to add to the list would be to use the current mirrors link I posted above in post #11 to find your mirrors, then use Synaptic to set them up. It's been over 3 years since I've used it, but I think it has a special option within it for doing just that. Let me know if I'm mistaken.

The main thing is to run apt-get update (or do it from within Synaptic) to update the packages list, again.

**Euralis** · 01-14-2008

Okay then. Well it looks like this thread has reached its conclusion then. Thanks Ozar

**kai12** · 01-15-2008

Originally Posted by Euralis

I have an inkleing that it may be because I wiped out the debian ftp link being that my sources.list is devoid of anything in it.

Why don't you restore the debian ftp entry in your sources.list?
Here's a list: Debian worldwide mirror sites

Something similar to this:

Code:

deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free

in your sources.list should do - this is for etch though, if you're running lenny or sarge or sid
you need to modify this accordingly.

If this doesn't help at least it narrows down your problem.
cheers, kai

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