Repositories help?

[sagnard]

Ok I've tried to download Rsbot a few times but it tells me i have to change my repositories and i've looked how to do it many many times and they all talk about doing it in Ubuntu i need to know how to do it in Linux mint 8

They say to change the multiverse setting but i can't or at least i haven't figured out how...can you help me

[devils casper]

Post the contents /etc/apt/sources.list file here.

[reed9]

Ok I've tried to download Rsbot a few times but it tells me i have to change my repositories and i've looked how to do it many many times and they all talk about doing it in Ubuntu i need to know how to do it in Linux mint 8

They say to change the multiverse setting but i can't or at least i haven't figured out how...can you help me

Mint in large part uses Ubuntu's repositories and any instructions for Ubuntu ought to work in Mint. (Just make sure you don't remove the Mint specific repositories.)

In /etc/apt/sources.list you'll find lines looking like this

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic main restricted universe multiverse

The bits after "karmic" are the various enabled sections, in this case main, restricted, universe, and multiverse.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...es/CommandLine

[sagnard]

So i tried /etc/apt/sources.list and it says permission denied so i tried Sudo (which is like using root to do it but not logging in right?) and it said the command was not found
and like i said the ubuntu guides i found have a different software sources thing But, the software sources thing is completely different so i can't do what it says cause the command aren't there. and i also tried to just login as root first using "su" and did but it still said permission denied

ok so i found out a way to do it but it's not that way and i wanna know how to do it the other way and why it won't work i used

 gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

and it worked just fine popped up the thing here it is

deb Repository - Linux Mint helena main upstream import
deb Index of /ubuntu karmic main restricted universe multiverse
deb Index of /ubuntu karmic-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb Index of /ubuntu karmic-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb Index of /ubuntu karmic partner
deb Medibuntu -- Medibuntu packages karmic free non-free

[reed9]

i also tried to just login as root first using "su" and did but it still said permission denied

Ubuntu/Mint disables logging in as root with su by default.

and like i said the ubuntu guides i found have a different software sources thing But, the software sources thing is completely different so i can't do what it says cause the command aren't there.

Yes, Mint has the software sources thing.


Put the repos in code tags or disable automatic link parsing in the advanced options, so this

deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ helena main upstream import

doesn't turn to this:
deb Repository - Linux Mint helena main upstream import

They say to change the multiverse setting but i can't or at least i haven't figured out how...can you help me

Change it how? Multiverse is enabled in Mint by default, and is correct in your sources.list.

[reed9]

Wait, I was looking for instructions on rsbot - this a bot to cheat for Runescape? I'm sorry I helped at all now. You're on your own from here on out.

[devils casper]

So i tried /etc/apt/sources.list and it says permission denied so i tried Sudo (which is like using root to do it but not logging in right?) and it said the command was not found
and like i said the ubuntu guides i found have a different software sources thing But, the software sources thing is completely different so i can't do what it says cause the command aren't there. and i also tried to just login as root first using "su" and did but it still said permission denied

Are you logged in as a same user that you created during installation? sudo doesn't work for users that are created manually, after installation and you have to set permissions for those in sudoers first.

[sagnard]

lol what does it matter what it's for haha people cheat on games most everyday theres no difference. i have it for windows im just trying to figure this whole linux thing out

I know software sources is there i said the options aren't the same