Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...
On Sun, May 01, 2022 at 03:13:06PM +1000, Charlie wrote:
> >
>
> Thank you for that update. I will give your sources list a try because
> my new Asus desktop install won't accept the sources list from my
> working laptop:
>
> deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main non-free contrib
>
> with this message:
>
> Release file for http://deb.debian/dists/bullseye/InRelease is not
> valid yet (invalid for another 5d 13h 52m 3s) Updates for this
> repository will not be applied.
>
> Because the installer configured the Ethernet connection but could not
> access the mirror, I put in the above from my home lappy, but still no
> joy. So will try your sources list, thank you.
>
> Charlie
> --
Hi Charlie,
That error is symptomatic of another problem: what time/date does the
machine think it has.
If files come from the future, it could be that the time or date is
incorrectly set in firmware - or that something doesn't have a real
time clock.
That's fairly easily reset by using the date command and hwclock commands.
I always have to check the syntax of the date command:
date -u MMDDHHmmCCYY where u is for UTC
date -u 050111132022
would be round about now and would set the system time accordingly.
hwclock --systohc
would apply system time to the hardware clock (or --hctosys would go the other
way].
Hope this helps - with every good wish, as ever,
Andy Cater
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