Re: How do you install a program in Ubuntu?
Originally Posted by
Don Bowen
here's a quote from an error message that is probably the result of trying to install something incorrectly.
This is a major failure of your software management system. Please check for broken packages with synaptic, check the file permissions and correctness of the file '/etc/apt/sources.list' and reload the software information with: 'sudo apt-get update' and 'sudo apt-get install -f'.
OK...great... I can presume that there is a text file at /etc/apt/sources.list that has bad information in it.
I can presume "sources.list" is the name of the file.
If my computer doesn't like what's in that file... what should be in that file?
can it be blank?
I can also guess that I should edit that file so that it contains
'sudo apt-get update' and 'sudo apt-get install -f'.
I wonder how I can browse to that file?
How do I edit it once I find it?
no, you don't want to edit the file and add that info, it will break things worse. In the terminal, run
Code:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -f
post any output here if there are errors as well as the output of
Code:
cat /etc/apt/sources.list
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