bernhard.d.rohrer at accenture.com wrote:
>> I just copied them over from my Ubuntu-VM
>Yeah, in your face package management.
>> You did run `apt-get update' right? WHat mirror are you using?
>> funny how eveybody asks that. yes I did. I tried the main mirror, and the us, de and ie ones.
Had to ask :)
fwiw, (ie|us|uk).archive.ubuntu.com are all the same thing - the servers
are hosted in the uk.
Sounds like `/var/lib/dpkg/available' isn't getting generated - try
running `dselect update' as root.
Niall
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