Re: trouble installing gnome

From	leonard morin <leonard.morin@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: trouble installing gnome
Date	2020-06-07 20:40 +0200
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Thanks again for all your help. Once again, at this point, I don't remember
how I did it, but I cleared the sources list and put in the Debian
repository to download Gnome. It's taking me a lot of effort to wield the
code since I'm new at this, and I don't want to cause irreparable damage.
Be well!

On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 7:45 PM Leonard Morin <ltmorin@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Thanks to all you for your help! I followed your advice partially and was
> able to install Gnome. I don’t understand how it worked and I plan to try
> to figure that out tomorrow. Bedankt!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jun 6, 2020, at 6:51 PM, Tom Dial <tddial@comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > 
> >
> >> On 6/6/20 09:14, leonard morin wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I hope all are well. I recently dual-installed debian from a live image
> >> on a usb along with Windows on a new computer. My friend gave me some
> >> guidance, but he is very busy so I don't want to bother him now.
> >>
> >> When I first installed, my wifi didn't work on Debian, so I couldn't
> >> download Gnome. As you can see below, my friend gave me a fix to connect
> >> to wifi, but it didn't work. Nor is it possible to download/install
> >> Gnome, as you can see from the error messages below. Can anyone explain
> >> to me how to fix this? By the way, I'm hard-wired now. Thanks!
> >>
> >> # apt-get install task-gnome-desktop
> >> E: Type 'Line' is not known on line 7 in source list
> /etc/apt/sources.list
> >> E: The list of sources could not be read.
> >> E: Type 'Line' is not known on line 7 in source list
> /etc/apt/sources.list
> >> E: The list of sources could not be read.
> >> # apt-get update
> >> E: Type 'Line' is not known on line 7 in source list
> /etc/apt/sources.list
> >> E: The list of sources could not be read.
> >> # apt-get upgrade
> >> E: Type 'Line' is not known on line 7 in source list
> /etc/apt/sources.list
> >> E: The list of sources could not be read.
> >> E: Type 'Line' is not known on line 7 in source list
> /etc/apt/sources.list
> >> E: The list of sources could not be read.
> >
> > At a guess, I would say these error messages occurred because
> > /etc/apt/sources.list is (functionally) empty - all the lines are
> > commented out.
> >
> > I would add
> >
> > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
> > deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Bullseye_ - Official Snapshot
> >> amd64 xfce-CD Binary-1 20200525-03:32]/ bullseye main contrib non-free
> >>
> >> #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Bullseye_ - Official Snapshot
> >> amd64 xfce-CD Binary-1 20200525-03:32]/ bullseye main contrib non-free
> >>
> >>  Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
> >
> > Uncomment this line
> >> #deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main
> >> contrib non-free
> >
> >>  Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
> >
> > And this one
> >> #deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security
> >> main contrib non-free
> >
> > (You could remove or omit the non-free and/or contrib if you don't
> > really need packages from those repositories).
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Tom Dial
>
>

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