Okay, I decided to ditch the other tutorial and retry your approach again and get a private requesting key.
I first create the sources.list file as per your instructions.
I then enter: "
gpg --keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu --recv-key 40976EAF437D05B5"
The only negative comment I see after executing this command was "
gpg: can't open `/gnupg/options.skel` : No such file or directory"
I am then provided an 8-digit hex private requesting key.
I then type: "
gpg --edit-key ftpmaster@ubuntu.com" and then type "
fpr" at the shell prompt.
I assume fpr somehow validates my key. I then type "
quit" to exit back to the main command prompt.
I then type: "
gpg -a --export [8-digit requesting key] | apt-key add -" (had to remove sudo since I got a bash error saying command not found)
I then resumed your original walk through tutorial:
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
I then get an error: "Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?"
I reran apt-get update and dist-upgrade and was taken to a menu where I selected my key map and something to do with cron (which I took the default value).
After a while, the result of running "apt-get dist-upgrade" produced the following error:
"Preconfiguring packages ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
dpkg: regarding .../dpkg_1.14.5ubuntu16_i386.deb containing dpkg:
package uses Breaks; not supported in this dpkg
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.14.5ubuntu16_i386.deb (--unpack):
unsupported depedency problem - not installing dpkg
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.14.5ubuntu16_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)"
Hoping that this is not a catastrophic error, I went on to type:
apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
This produced similar errors and does not actually install Xubuntu although it looks like it downloaded almost everything.
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