<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi all, if you caught my posts last week then you'll be please to know that...<br>I've started... but not pleased that I've stumbled at the first hurdle.<br><br>Aptitude was showing 'installed packages' and 'not-installed packages'<br>I have set up eth0 and inet so that I can ping ubuntu.com and other websites - that works<br>I've modified /etc/apt/sources.list so that it doesn't look at the CD<br>I tried "sudo apt-get install openssh-server"<br>It fails to contact any of the repositories (what does "restricted" mean anyway?)<br>Now Aptitude is showing something like 'legacy and non-standard packages' instead of installed and not-installed<br><br>This leaves me with questions:<br><span>Do the default repositories exist? I can visit the website at <a target="_blank" href="http://gb">http://gb</a>... .ubuntu.com
- the server is there</span><br>Do I need a login because they are marked Restricted?<br><br>Is openssh-server the tool I need in order to unplug the monitor from the server and manage it using Cygwin on my Windows laptop? How do I add it to the startup scripts so that it always runs?<br><br>Thanks for listening!<br>Richard Pineger<br></div></div><br>
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