At Wed, 03 Jan 2001 11:56:01 -0700, Brandeil wrote: > > Hi ! > I am very new to Debian. I have been trying to install some software > using the apt-get, I have had little success with it though. > netscape and ncftp are the only programs I have successfully installed. > GIMP, MC, GTK and others i have not been able too, their is an attempt made > and downloads occure, however the program is not installed, a message says > to "udate" files to add missing files, I have done this several times but > no success. > Some files are NOT FOUND, I dont know how to add a link to the source list > (the attempts that i have tried causes an error and does not run) > > Thank you for your help.
Could you please post your /etc/apt/sources.list? Without that, it is very hard to guess what could be going wrong with your installations. j