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jlpoole

Post subject: [Solved] Ubuntu Package Manager in 9/2011 high watermark fai

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 9:51 am

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I downloaded the Ubuntu image efika-armhf+3d-20110925.img.xz and wrote it to an SD Card which then allowed me to boot into Ubuntu.

Let me preface that I am unfamiliar with Ubuntu, my experience with Linux has been with version by Redhat, Gentoo, and, of course, Oracle.

I want to have a basic editor in the graphical interface for text files (nano in a shell works, but makes cutting and pasting cumbersome). So I try the install application feature and selected Emacs and also Gedit. What happens is that I get an error message: 404 not found when the packages are attempted to be downloaded.

My Ice Weasel browser works fine, I can download files therein.

What is not working for me is the Ubuntu package manager. I'll post a reply to this topic from within my Ubuntu session as to the error messages I receive. I'm thinking the problem may be the address of the server that is pre-installed, or there is a port issue (I do run a firewall on my network). It seems to me the package manager ought to work right out of the box, and if it doesn't something should be brought to the user's attention of what variables may prevent it from working, e.g. what ports need to be open or the user needs to select an address for a package repository.

I tried to ftp from a shell, but ftp is not in the default install. So, I'm in the chicken-or-the-egg scenario of troubleshooting this.

Last edited by jlpoole on Tue Nov 22, 2011 4:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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jlpoole

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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 10:05 am

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Here's my scenario:

I'm in File Browser. I select a text file. Right click to "Open with other application". Dialog appears with two panels: installed & available applications. I select the Available Application and select one (there are two with the same version '23' ??) Emacs. Click "Install" window disappears. After about a minute a window would pop up saying that connection to the server failed with a 404 error.

As I enter this, I tried again so I could capture the output and I did not get the failure window, so it appears maybe good things are happening and Emacs is being successfully installed.

I tried System-Administration-Synaptic Package Manager and was told a background process instance was already running. It would be be nice to have a message that told be where to go to monitor the progress. I'll keep my fingers crossed and update this thread with the results.

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jlpoole

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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 10:33 am

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I monitored synaptic in the System Monitor and found it doing nothing, so I killed it. I then went through the same selection process and this time selected to install "gedit". After clicking "Install" the dialog closes and 30 seconds pops up a dialog warning of problems, I click through to get the error messages:

Code:

E: Unable to correct missing packages

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/pool/main/g/gtksourceview3/libgtksourceview-3.0-common_3.0.5-1_all.deb
  404  Not Found [IP: 206.12.19.127 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/pool-armhf/main/g/gtksourceview3/libgtksourceview-3.0-0_3.0.5-1_armhf.deb
  404  Not Found [IP: 206.12.19.127 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/pool-armhf/main/g/gtksourceview3/gir1.2-gtksource-3.0_3.0.5-1_armhf.deb
  404  Not Found [IP: 206.12.19.127 80]

Is there something I can do to download packages in this Ubuntu install?

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PurpleAlien

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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 1:39 pm

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Hi John,

Could you run the following (as root)

Code:

apt-get update

After that, try installing a package again, with e.g,:

Code:

apt-get install gedit

Does this work?

By the way, efika-armhf+3d-20110925.img.xz is plain Debian, not Ubuntu.

Johan.

Johan Dams, Genesi USA Inc.
Director, Software Engineering

Yep, I have a blog... PurpleAlienPlanet

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jlpoole

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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 2:02 pm

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PurpleAlien wrote:

Hi John,

Could you run the following (as root)

Code:

apt-get update

After that, try installing a package again, with e.g,:

Code:

apt-get install gedit

Does this work?

By the way, efika-armhf+3d-20110925.img.xz is plain Debian, not Ubuntu.

Johan.

Almost (running in a terminal window within Gnome :

Code:

root@efikamx-armhf:~# apt-get update
Ign http://ftp.debian-ports.org unstable InRelease
Ign http://ftp.debian-ports.org unreleased InRelease                           
Get:1 http://ftp.debian-ports.org unstable Release.gpg [836 B]                 
Get:2 http://ftp.debian-ports.org unreleased Release.gpg [836 B]               
Get:3 http://ftp.debian-ports.org unstable Release [23.8 kB]                   
Ign http://incoming.debian-ports.org unstable InRelease                        
Get:4 http://ftp.debian-ports.org unreleased Release [25.8 kB]                 
Get:5 http://incoming.debian-ports.org unstable Release.gpg [836 B]            
Get:6 http://incoming.debian-ports.org unstable Release [30.6 kB]              
Get:7 http://ftp.debian-ports.org unstable/main armhf Packages [7738 kB]       
Get:8 http://incoming.debian-ports.org unstable/main Sources [14 B]          
Get:9 http://incoming.debian-ports.org unstable/main armhf Packages [52.8 kB]  
Ign http://incoming.debian-ports.org unstable/main TranslationIndex            
Ign http://incoming.debian-ports.org unstable/main Translation-en              
Get:10 http://ftp.gr.debian.org unstable InRelease [160 kB]                   
Get:11 http://ftp.gr.debian.org unstable/main Sources/DiffIndex [2038 B]       
Get:12 http://ftp.gr.debian.org unstable/contrib Sources/DiffIndex [2023 B]    
Get:13 http://ftp.gr.debian.org unstable/non-free Sources/DiffIndex [2023 B]   
Get:14 http://ftp.gr.debian.org unstable/main Sources [5931 kB]                
Ign http://ftp.debian-ports.org unstable/main TranslationIndex                 
Get:15 http://ftp.debian-ports.org unreleased/main armhf Packages [12.6 kB]    
Ign http://ftp.debian-ports.org unreleased/main TranslationIndex               
Ign http://ftp.debian-ports.org unstable/main Translation-en                   
Ign http://ftp.debian-ports.org unreleased/main Translation-en                 
Get:16 http://ftp.gr.debian.org unstable/contrib Sources [57.2 kB]             
Get:17 http://ftp.gr.debian.org unstable/non-free Sources [103 kB]             
Fetched 14.1 MB in 1min 31s (154 kB/s)                                         
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
root@efikamx-armhf:~# 

If I need to exit Gnome to run apt-get update, I'll need instructions to exit yet retain a command line and then return (startx?).

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PurpleAlien

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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 3:34 pm

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Hi.

You don't have to exit GNome. Try running it again. I think there might be a stale lock file, so you might just want to delete it.

Johan.

Johan Dams, Genesi USA Inc.
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jlpoole

Post subject: Problem solved

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 4:14 pm

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There was a stale lock and I deleted it and the update proceeded. Thereafter, I was able to install Emacs using the package management system.

Thank you.

For propriety:

Code:

root@efikamx-armhf:~# apt-get update
Ign http://incoming.debian-ports.org unstable InRelease
Hit http://incoming.debian-ports.org unstable Release.gpg                      
Hit http://incoming.debian-ports.org unstable Release                          
Ign http://ftp.debian-ports.org unstable InRelease                             
Ign http://ftp.debian-ports.org unreleased InRelease
Hit http://ftp.debian-ports.org unstable Release.gpg
Hit http://incoming.debian-ports.org unstable/main Sources
Hit http://ftp.debian-ports.org unreleased Release.gpg
Hit http://incoming.debian-ports.org unstable/main armhf Packages
Ign http://incoming.debian-ports.org unstable/main TranslationIndex  
Hit http://ftp.debian-ports.org unstable Release                     
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org unstable InRelease                                
Hit http://ftp.debian-ports.org unreleased Release                             
Hit http://ftp.debian-ports.org unstable/main armhf Packages
Ign http://ftp.debian-ports.org unstable/main TranslationIndex
Ign http://incoming.debian-ports.org unstable/main Translation-en
Hit http://ftp.debian-ports.org unreleased/main armhf Packages                 
Ign http://ftp.debian-ports.org unreleased/main TranslationIndex
Ign http://ftp.debian-ports.org unstable/main Translation-en
Ign http://ftp.debian-ports.org unreleased/main Translation-en
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org unstable/main Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org unstable/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org unstable/non-free Sources/DiffIndex
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
root@efikamx-armhf:~# ls /var/lib/dpkg/lock
/var/lib/dpkg/lock
root@efikamx-armhf:~# ls -la /var/lib/dpkg/lock
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Sep 25 09:19 /var/lib/dpkg/lock
root@efikamx-armhf:~# date
Tue Nov 22 14:00:48 PST 2011
root@efikamx-armhf:~# rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock   
root@efikamx-armhf:~# ls -la /var/lib/dpkg/lock
ls: cannot access /var/lib/dpkg/lock: No such file or directory
root@efikamx-armhf:~# apt-get update
Ign http://incoming.debian-ports.org unstable InRelease
Ign http://ftp.debian-ports.org unstable InRelease                           
Ign http://ftp.debian-ports.org unreleased InRelease                         
Hit http://incoming.debian-ports.org unstable Release.gpg                    
Hit http://ftp.debian-ports.org unstable Release.gpg                         
Hit http://incoming.debian-ports.org unstable Release                        
Hit http://ftp.debian-ports.org unreleased Release.gpg                       
Hit http://ftp.debian-ports.org unstable Release                             
Hit http://ftp.debian-ports.org unreleased Release                    
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org unstable InRelease                       
Hit http://incoming.debian-ports.org unstable/main Sources            
Hit http://incoming.debian-ports.org unstable/main armhf Packages     
Ign http://incoming.debian-ports.org unstable/main TranslationIndex   
Hit http://ftp.debian-ports.org unstable/main armhf Packages          
Ign http://ftp.debian-ports.org unstable/main TranslationIndex         
Hit http://ftp.debian-ports.org unreleased/main armhf Packages         
Ign http://ftp.debian-ports.org unreleased/main TranslationIndex
Ign http://incoming.debian-ports.org unstable/main Translation-en
Ign http://ftp.debian-ports.org unstable/main Translation-en                 
Ign http://ftp.debian-ports.org unreleased/main Translation-en               
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org unstable/main Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org unstable/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org unstable/non-free Sources/DiffIndex
Reading package lists... Done                          
root@efikamx-armhf:~# 

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