[plug] Debian Woody -- installing Gnome

[Sol]

Well I must confess I'm running out of ideas.
Try this: 1) apt-get clean 
	  2) apt-get get update  #if it won't update the source either the server is 
out or too busy OR there's a space or some sort of syntax error in the URL
	3)If update is successful, try using the dselect interface. I'll digress to 
explain my point here. Just recently I wanted to check out something that 
required mysql so I did: dpkg -l mysql* # to check that it was there, then: 
apt-get install mysql. apt-get couldn't find the package. So I went into 
dselect and installed the components that I needed to make it work 
(mysql-server, mysql-common, mysql-client) and dselect suggested any 
dependencies that were needed. So try dselect, search (use the forward slash) 
for gnome2 and gdm2, and see what happens. 
(On another digression, I recently upgraded from kde2.2 to kde3 on a woody box 
by doing this: "apt-get install kit". Now I don't even use kit, I just knew 
that once the sources were updated, installing kit would drag in all the kde3 
dependencies, thereby installing kde3 in order to install a single kde3 
package. Maybe something similar will work installing gnome2??)

Apart from that you might need help from someone a little smarter than me.

regards,
sol


On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 03:18 pm, Daniel Pearson wrote:
> Sol,
> The woody/gnome2 must just be how it shows the output when it gives the
> error msg, as this is what is currently in my file without me making any
> changes.
> workstation:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> deb http://people.debian.org/~kov/debian woody gnome2
> deb-src http://people.debian.org/~kov/debian woody gnome2
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sol" <sol at autonomon.net>
> To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 3:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [plug] Debian Woody -- installing Gnome
>
> > Look at the URL again.
> > The URL you gave me:"deb http://people.debian.org woody/gnome2"
> > The URL I gave you: "deb http://people.debian.org/~kov/debian woody
>
> gnome2"
>
> > Basically I'm guessing that you've entered a malformed or non-existant
> > URL
>
> in
>
> > sources.list and that's why you're not connecting to the server source.
>
> Type
>
> > the URL in exactly as I have given it to you between the quotation marks
> > (minus the quotation marks of course).
> > Oh, and for sources check: "deb-src http://people.debian.org/~kov/debian
>
> woody
>
> > gnome2"
> >
> > Did you really check out www.apt-get.org?
> >
> > regards,
> > sol
> >
> > On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 02:26 pm, Daniel Pearson wrote:
> > > In /etc/apt/sources.list ?
> > > Its already there.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Sol" <sol at autonomon.net>
> > > To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> > > Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 2:08 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [plug] Debian Woody -- installing Gnome
> > >
> > > > Try this URL:
> > > > deb http://people.debian.org/~kov/debian woody gnome2
> > > >
> > > > I just apt-get update 'd and the source seems to work. Give it a go.
> > > >
> > > > regards,
> > > > sol
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 01:25 pm, Daniel Pearson wrote:
> > > > > Ok,
> > > > > Well.. I managed to get a package listing now, by commenting out
> > > > > one
>
> at
>
> > > a
> > >
> > > > > time, and doing each source individually. Installing now, is where
>
> i'm
>
> > > > > running into the errors.
> > > > >
> > > > > workstation:~# apt-get install gnome gdm2
> > > > > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > > > > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > > > > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://people.debian.org
> > >
> > > woody/gnome2
> > >
> > > > > Packages
>
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/people.debian.org_%7ekov_debian_dists_woody_gnome2_bina
>
> > > > >r y-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> > > > > W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
> > > > > E: Couldn't find package gnome