$sudo aptitude update

[Karl F. Larsen]

Roy Smith wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>   
>>   I went to man aptitude and quick I found this:
>>
>> update
>> Updates the list of available packages from the apt sources (this
>> is equivalent to “apt-get update”)
>>
>> So then I did a apt-get update and got:
>>
>> Get:12 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Packages 
>> [11.9kB]
>> Get:13 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Sources [1105B]
>> Fetched 361kB in 15s (23.3kB/s)
>> W: GPG error: http://dl.google.com stable Release: The following 
>> signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: 
>> NO_PUBKEY A040830F7FAC5991
>> W: Failed to fetch cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 
>> (20080423)]/dists/hardy/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Please use 
>> apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot 
>> be used to add new CD-ROMs
>>
>> W: Failed to fetch cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 
>> (20080423)]/dists/hardy/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz Please use 
>> apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot 
>> be used to add new CD-ROMs
>>
>> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old 
>> ones used instead.
>>
>>
>> Notice it says it "Failed to fetch cdrom". This means the apt sources, 
>> not my computer.
>>   
>>     
>
> Well was your Ubuntu 8.04 CD in your CD-ROM drive?  If not, then
> naturally it's not going to find it.  So humor me on this one and put
> your Ubuntu CD in the drive and try it again.  If the error goes away,
> then you need to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and either comment out
> or remove the references to the CD.  Also you need to go here
> http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/aboutkey.html and download the
> signing key and import it to take care of the other error you have
> failed to mention in this posting.
>
>
>   
    Thank you! I found an odd reference to the cd-rom in  
/etc/apt/sources.list and I commented it out. This corrected that error.

    The went to the google page and used the wget bash file and used it 
to fix the google PGP problem.

    Now when I use $sudo aptitude update I get a clean print with zero 
errors. But there is another odd error keeping Updatemanager from working.

        A panel is shown that is titled An error occured and details says:

E: ERROR: could not create configuration directory /home/ben/.synaptic - 
mkdir
(2 No such file or directory)

        The error might be due to the fact there is no user known as 
ben. The only user is karl.

    So I wonder where it gets a user ben?

Karl