[Wylug-help] Debian help needed

[Jim Jackson]

Hi Anne,

On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:

> 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
>
> I then have the problem that I haven't got the gpg-key for them.  I googled,
> but couldn't find how to get it other than that it was installed with the
> distro.

There is a wiki entry at http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ all about adding
extra repositories. Take a look at...

  http://wiki.eeeuser.com/#sources_for_software

especially

  http://wiki.eeeuser.com/addingxandrosrepos

and especially the pinning. Yes it's a pain, and is far more complicated 
than either a standard Debian or Ubuntu. That's because the Xandros distro 
has diverted sufficiently fromt he base debian that you could seriously 
shoot yourself in the foot.

After that check out

  http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:adddebianfeeds

after that from the command line try...

  sudo apt-get install aspell aspell-en etc....



>
> 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'
>
> I need
>
> aspell
> aspell-en
> iamerican (seems to be needed by default)
> ibritish
> ispell
>
> Can anyone tell me how I can get them?  Thanks
>
> Anne
>
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