[Wylug-help] Debian help needed

[Jim Jackson]

On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Jim Jackson wrote:

>
> 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,

One extra thing to point out is that, using the apt-get method of 
installing, you are prompted if you want to continue, give the repository 
might not be trusted because of lack of keys.

I'd not install a down loaded deb file, except in exceptional 
circumstances. However if you have to try...

   http://www.newlinuxuser.com/howto-use-dpkg-to-install-deb-files/



>> 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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