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Il_Tuo_Nome
November 19th, 2005, 06:43 PM
Upon trying to add Universe and Multiverse as per http://help.ubuntu.com/starterguide/C/faqguide-all.html#synaptic-whatis
I was unsuccessful due to not being able Select each repository and check Officially supported, Restricted copyright, Community maintained (Universe) and Non-free (Multiverse). 'Offiially Supported and Restricted Copyright are already check, the checkmarks I added would not stay. Nor did all repositories become check marked as suggested by #6. of that section.

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How do I add Universe and Multiverse?


By default, Ubuntu comes pre-configured with basic and security update repositories. To enable the extra Universe and Multiverse repositories:

1.Start Synaptic by selecting System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager from the desktop menu system.
2.In Synaptic choose Settings-> Repositories.
3.Click the Settings button.
4.Tick Show disabled software sources, then click Close.
5.On the Repositories dialog box click Add. There are three separate repositories; Breezy Badger, Security Updates and Updates. Select each repository and check Officially supported, Restricted copyright, Community maintained (Universe) and Non-free (Multiverse). Ensure you click OK between each repository to save your changes.
6.You should now see checkboxes next to each repository, scroll through the list and ensure they are all checked.







thank you

geniium
November 19th, 2005, 10:08 PM
have you tried to edit directly /etc/apt/sources.list ? read the forum on, you have many subject about how to do this. and it should work.

aysiu
November 19th, 2005, 10:15 PM
Read my sig.

rjwood
November 19th, 2005, 10:17 PM
just do the following from a terminal
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list it will ask for your password-then a file will pop up--make it look like this by editing yours or you can copy and paste mine over yours

#deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Release i386 (20051012)]/ breezy main restricted



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

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

#deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted

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

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

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net/ breezy-extras main restricted universe multiverse

then
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade good luck:)

Il_Tuo_Nome
November 20th, 2005, 12:19 AM
Thank you guys :). By doing that, am I right to assume I don't need to go in to System>Administration>Synaptic Package Manager to do it the way I was? Or is that still necessary?

Thanks again fpr the help :)

aysiu
November 20th, 2005, 12:20 AM
Synaptic Package Manager is just a graphical version of apt-get.

Il_Tuo_Nome
November 20th, 2005, 12:32 AM
understood,

thanks again for the help :)