How do I know which package is which?

[David Hart]

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 12:12 +0000, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote:
> I have been getting following error when I enable 'universe' from
> /etc/apt/sources.list file. What kind of this error is?
> 
> soohyunc at quokka:~ $ sudo apt-cache search gnuplot
> Password:
> devscripts - Scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.ubuntu.com
> warty/universe Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_warty_universe_binary-i386_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> soohyunc at quokka:~ $ 
> 
> 
> My sources.list looks like this:
> 
> deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 4.10 _Warty Warthog_ - Preview i386 Binary-1
> (20041020)]/ unstable main restricted
> 
> 
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu warty main restricted
> deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu warty 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 warty universe
> deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu warty universe
> 
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu warty-security main restricted
> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu warty-security main restricted

Have you done 'apt-get update'?

-- 
David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>