Re: cannot build-essentials

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:02:52 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:

> # apt-get install build-essentials
                                   ^

Remove the last "s"... is "build-essential"

sm01@stt008:~$ apt-cache search build-essential
devscripts - scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier
build-essential - Informational list of build-essential packages
dh-buildinfo - Debhelper addon to track package versions used to build a package
sbuild - Tool for building Debian binary packages from Debian sources

> I think I am having some repository issue??
> 
> aptitude update gives me this:
> Err http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Sources
                              ^     ^       ^
I can't see that stanza in your "/etc/apt/sources.list" but 
seems to be wrong :-?

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón