[Tiny Clanger]

This is driving me crazy. On my old Camelot Live install, I could type apt-get update then apt-get install zsh zsh-doc. Bam. Installed.

On Dharma, it doesn't find it. Is the Dharma Live install missing a load of PPAs? If so, could somebody please tell me what I need to do to get everything back?

Code:

root@xbmc:/etc/apt# apt-get install zsh
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package zsh

Same occurs for git-core.

I know XBMC Live is supposed to be a cut-down distro, but the Camelot version at least let you add bits as you needed them. I don't really want to have to put a vanilla Lucid install on and then try and set XBMC up on it

Thanks

[Mindzai]

The only thing I can think is that your sources.list has had the relevant repo disabled/removed. On my Dharma Live install I can find the package no problem, and the same goes for git-core:

Code:

karl@mediacenter:~$ apt-cache show zsh
Package: zsh
Priority: optional
Section: shells
Installed-Size: 12696
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]>
Original-Maintainer: Clint Adams <[email protected]>
Architecture: i386
Version: 4.3.10-5ubuntu3
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libcap2 (>= 2.10), libncursesw5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3)
Recommends: libc6 (>= 2.11), libpcre3 (>= 7.7)
Suggests: zsh-doc
Conflicts: pdksh (<< 5.2.14-18)
Filename: pool/main/z/zsh/zsh_4.3.10-5ubuntu3_i386.deb
Size: 4324758
MD5sum: 05849989a5c7f342a02f85e2a57a1b03
SHA1: af0ab4e44bc8d83c0053d3fba94aa6aeacd3ca51
SHA256: 74875e7af003f3d6aa092493a4ab7eee4dfd9d0de3d944cf1f612f6501a2be80
Description: A shell with lots of features
Zsh is a UNIX command interpreter (shell) usable as an
interactive login shell and as a shell script command
processor. Of the standard shells, zsh most closely resembles
ksh but includes many enhancements. Zsh has command-line editing,
built-in spelling correction, programmable command completion,
shell functions (with autoloading), a history mechanism, and a
host of other features.
Homepage: http://www.zsh.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y

AFAIK both packages are in ln lucid/main so you should have that repo available by default. Can you post the content of your /etc/apt/sources.list?

[Tiny Clanger]

Thanks — all I have is this, which is almost certainly the cause:

deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 10.04 _Lucid_ - Build i386 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20101217-22:44]/ lucid main

I was installing from an SD card, meaning I had to copy the ISO onto the card and mount it on the loopback filesystem (as suggested at http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=626...stcount=10) so that could be what's messed it up…

[Mindzai]

Ah yeah that will be it.

Add the following to that file, run apt-get update and you should be sorted.

Code:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security main restricted universe multiverse

[Tiny Clanger]

Winner! Everything's installing properly now.

Thank you very much — my blood pressure is starting to return to normal now