Re: trouble installing gnome
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!
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!
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> 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).
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>
> Regards
> Tom Dial
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