> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 16:34:54 -0700
> From: Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>
> Subject: Re: We have Debian (Woody) ... and X ... and Now ... 
> OpenOffice.org
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> On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 04:14:57PM -0700, George Gambill wrote:
> > How can I point apt-get to look on the net without 
> re-installing Debian?
> 
> /etc/apt/sources.list
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> Bill Jonas    *    bill@billjonas.com    *    

Bill, 

I added the following lines (per http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html) to /etc/apt/sources.list before the "deb cdrom:" stuff.:

     deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
     deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
     deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
     
apt-get update  seems to have worked.

apt-get install openoffice.org fails with:
  Reading Package Lists... Done
  Building Dependency Tree... Done
  E: Couldn't find package open

Googled "debian" then within that "openoffice.org".

I added the following lines (per http://www.linux-debian.de/openoffice/mirrors.html) to /etc/apt/sources.list before the "deb cdrom:" stuff.:

     deb http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice/ woody main contrib

apt-get update  seems to have worked.

apt-get install openoffice.org  failed again.

apt-get install emacs also fails with:
  Reading Package Lists... Done
  Building Dependency Tree... Done
  Package emacs has no available version, but exists in the database.
  This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and 
  never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list.
  E: Package emacs has no installation candidate

apt-get install wine  worked

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

George

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