[Wylug-help] Debian help needed

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 06 April 2008 17:56:04 Smylers wrote:
> Anne Wilson writes:
> > I'm trying to get spell-checking working on the EeePC.  Neither aspell
> > nor ispell are in the default repos, and I have been advised to enable
> > these:
> >
> > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
> > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main contrib
> > non-free
> >
> > Attempting to download the two packages together with their dictionaries
> > brings me
> > 'E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status(2)
> > E: Unable to lock the download directory'
>
> What command did you run that gave the above error message?
>
If I download packages from http://tinyurl.com/5s7suu and 
http://tinyurl.com/5mnguw is there a way to do a local install?

Anne

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