Help with backports

[speedsix]

Hi,

I have added the extra repositories as per the Ubuntu Guide but when I search for speciic packages liste in the guide via Synaptic, nothing turns up.

For example Azureus and the Java 1.5 sdk?

What am I doing wrong?

64bit Hoary btw


many thanks

[AndyAWS]

Did you 'Reload Package Information' under the 'edit' menu?

[fluideye]

# sudo apt-get update

What do you have in /etc/apt/sources.list ?

[speedsix]

Hi my sources.lst file is as follows


deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-updates main restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-updates main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to fetch updated software from the network
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary universe

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security universe

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary multiverse

## Backports
deb http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net/ hoary-backports main universe multiverse restricted
deb http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net/ hoary-extras main universe multiverse restricted

Thanks

[speedsix]

Sorry, when I say 'nothing' turns up I mean not the specific backport packages like the jsdk, the regular stuff from the main ubuntu servers is there.

[fluideye]

Are you getting any "failed to fetch errors" when you sudo apt-get update?

If you are on a fresh install you may want to try this script, it worked well for me

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=22646&highlight=automatic+script

[Majlo]

Hi,

I have added the extra repositories as per the Ubuntu Guide but when I search for speciic packages liste in the guide via Synaptic, nothing turns up.

For example Azureus and the Java 1.5 sdk?

What am I doing wrong?

64bit Hoary btw


many thanks

Azureus , j2re is not in Backport repo for architecture amd64

See
http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net/dists/hoary-extras/restricted/binary-amd64/

But for i386 is it
http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net/dists/hoary-extras/restricted/binary-i386/

[fluideye]

oops, overlooked amd64, thanks Majlo