$sudo aptitude update

[Karl F. Larsen]

Roy Smith wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>   
>> 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?
>>     
>
> Post your /etc/apt/sources.list so we all can take a look at it and
> figure out where the problem may be.  You know it doesn't hurt to have a
> fresh set of eyes to look at something.  Once when I was in school for
> computer programming, I had to write a COBOL program and I kept getting
> an error when I tried to compile the source code.  Spent a couple of
> hours looking for the error, but then I showed it to someone else and
> they found the error in less than a minute.  Made me feel like an idiot
> for not seeing it originally...
>
>   
Here is the sources.list and the cd-rom problem is the first line, which 
I have now commented out:

# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080423)]/ hardy 
main r
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted

## 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://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu

    I did leave a few off because they do not enter into this problem :-)


Karl