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can't add Canonical Repos to synaptic on new Minit-9
I just got this way-cool mini-9 with Unbuntu Hardy. My first disappointment was that Dell's Firefox has the Yahoo toolbar installed, and they've disabled its uninstall button. I can't live with this thing because it takes over FF's own bookmarks toolbar, or at least it seems that way. So I got the idea to add the standard Hardy repository to synaptic so I can re-install FF from there.
So I added,
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy main
to the add repository dialogue box, but in response I get a ton of error messages that it could not download the indexes:
Could not download all repository indexes
The repository may no longer be available or could not be contacted because of network problems. If available an older version of the failed index will be used. Otherwise the repository will be ignored. Check your network connection and ensure the repository address in the preferences is correct.
Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/Release Unable to find expected entry main/binary-lpia/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)
I can find the packages in my browser just fine, so I think I may be doing something wrong (or Dell disabled canonical's repos). Any help, please ?
Thanks for the quick response!
The repos that synaptic had listed were all Dell's versions of Ubuntu packages, and they were all already checked. I wanted to find Canonical's versions of those packages.
Well, I figured it out. My mini-9 has an Atom processor, not i386. The error message was that it was looking for binary-lpia packages, but there were none in the repo I gave it, only i386.
I found the binary-lpia packages in ports.ubuntu.com, from which I was able to find the native (not Dell!) ubuntu packages including Firefox. However, as I was banging my way thru all this, I also discovered that the Yahoo toolbar was listed as package in synaptic. So instead of reinstalling firefox, I just uninstalled Yahoo toolbar.
That's interesting about the Atom processor - I'll have to remember that. :)
If I'd been paying full attention to your original post I would have advised you to start Firefox as root. That would probably have made the uninstall option available for the Yahoo toolbar.
eyring2210
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Posted October 24th, 2008 00:00
Since I'm a total newbie can you tell me how to add these repos for the mini 9? I am getting errors
about the binary-lpia packages.gz not being found from the update manager. thanks
Open Synaptic from System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager.
Under Settings menu, you'll see Repositories.
This brings up a tabbed notebook. The second tab is Third-Party Software. This is where you add it by clicking the Add... button. Here I typed in,
http://ports.ubuntu.com/ hardy main
In general, I think if you're to this, I would stick with the Dell respositories that are already listed. They should mirror Ubuntu's repos pretty closely, and I myself did not need use the one I added since I found the fix to my problem as described above.
eyring2210
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Posted October 25th, 2008 17:00
bI would agree I don't need more than the included repos. But I keep getting the following errors from the update manager.
Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-security/main/binary-lpia/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-security/restricted/binary-lpia/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-security/multiverse/binary-lpia/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-security/universe/binary-lpia/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/main/binary-lpia/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/restricted/binary-lpia/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/multiverse/binary-lpia/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/universe/binary-lpia/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/restricted/binary-lpia/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/main/binary-lpia/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/multiverse/binary-lpia/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/universe/binary-lpia/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.Andthis makes the updater keep opening up which is getting annoying.
Thanks for any help
dwasifar
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Posted October 14th, 2008 03:00
You shouldn't need to add that particular repo manually. In Synaptic, open the Repositories window (Settings>Repositories) and choose the Third Party tab. It should already be in that list; all you should need to do is check the box. Close the window and then click Reload, or in terminal type "sudo apt-get update".
If you still have trouble after this, post the contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list file and I'll have a look at it.