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yossi59
March 22nd, 2009, 11:13 AM
Hi
I am a new Linux/Ubuntu user
I have installed Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and want to use the alien command.
The system did not recognize the command.
I tried to install it and didn't succeed.
Below is the terminal output:

yossi@yossi-desktop:~$ sudo aptitude install alien
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "alien"
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "alien"
The following packages have been kept back:
ssl-cert
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
yossi@yossi-desktop:~$
yossi@yossi-desktop:~$

Yossi59
yossi59
March 22nd, 2009, 11:46 AM
Hi
I am a new Linux/Ubuntu user
I have installed Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and want to use the alien command.
The system did not recognize the command.
I tried to install it and didn't succeed.
Below is the terminal output:

yossi@yossi-desktop:~$ sudo aptitude install alien
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "alien"
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "alien"
The following packages have been kept back:
ssl-cert
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
yossi@yossi-desktop:~$
yossi@yossi-desktop:~$

Yossi59
taurus
March 22nd, 2009, 03:27 PM
Post your /etc/apt/sources.list


cat /etc/apt/sources.list

http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/alien
Rocket2DMn
March 22nd, 2009, 03:38 PM
Threads merged - please do not create multiple threads on the same topic. Thank you.