It seems to be ok for the Wine repo. There’s still the issue with the MATE repo. Have you tried the apt-key command that I gave 4 messages above, with the long key? Are you behind a proxy?
And I really have no idea about a ‘proxy’. I installed from a DVD. The ISO file I took was the first one they put back online after all the issues with the laptops failing. . The installation itself seemed to go really smoothly. But I haven’t been able to do any updates/refreshes on the repos from the boutique like i said, it just gives me error messages.
Ugh, the software updater system wants me to update ‘simple scan’ - not a problem?
And, it’s 1am here lol… I’m getting a tad weary… old age ain’t wonderful lol. And, I’m sure the forum is gonna shut me down very, very soon lol… it doesn’t like ‘newbies’ lol
Cheers
M.
emjaycee@ubuntu-mate-mjc:~$ sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 709A860A600B9A61FEF5346AFB01CC26162506E7
Executing: /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.DDCIhCGdQf/gpg.1.sh --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 709A860A600B9A61FEF5346AFB01CC26162506E7
gpg: keyserver receive failed: No keyserver available
emjaycee@ubuntu-mate-mjc:~$
Another failure here I guess?
Don’t use the software updater for now, we’ll update in command line to check if everything is ok.
A proxy is a kinf of server that acts as a filter on the internet connection. If you’re on a personal connection, you shouldn’t have one but it’s possible if you’re on a public connection (like university, enterprise, public wifi or something like that). The fact that the Software Boutique doesn’t work and apt-key can’t find the keyserver makes me think that you’re behin one (as proxies block certain websites, certain protocols, etc.).
For the MATE repo, we’ll try something else (and we can continue later, there’s no rush):
- Launch the Pluma text editor from your applications menu;
- Go to https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFB01CC26162506E7
- Paste the content of the page from “-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----” to “-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----” (i.e don’t include the title that says “Public Key Server – Get 0xfb01cc26162506e7”) to Pluma and save the file where you want with the name you want;
- Open the MATE Control Center → Software & Updates. Go into the Authentication tab, click on “import key file” and select the file you saved at point 3.
When it’s done, try to reload the sources again to see if it’s ok:
sudo apt-get updateemjaycee@ubuntu-mate-mjc:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for emjaycee:
Hit:1 au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful InRelease
Hit:2 au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates InRelease
Hit:3 au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-backports InRelease
Hit:4 dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu artful InRelease
Hit:5 archive.canonical.com/ubuntu artful InRelease
Hit:6 security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-security InRelease
Hit:7 deb.playonlinux.com xenial InRelease
Get:8 ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate-dev/welcome/ubuntu artful InRelease [15.9 kB]
Ign:9 download.videolan.org/pub/debian/stable InRelease
Hit:10 download.videolan.org/pub/debian/stable Release
Get:12 ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate-dev/welcome/ubuntu artful/main Sources [636 B]
Get:13 ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate-dev/welcome/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages [676 B]
Get:14 ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate-dev/welcome/ubuntu artful/main i386 Packages [676 B]
Get:15 ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate-dev/welcome/ubuntu artful/main Translation-en [256 B]
Fetched 18.1 kB in 4s (3,710 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
emjaycee@ubuntu-mate-mjc:~$
Lots of http deletes again obviously. Does that look any better. I have no bloody idea lol. At least it isn’t showing error messages lol.
M.
I really have to go to bed, terzag… I’m stuffed lol… hope you don’t mind?
It’s almost 1.30am here. Tomorrow night I’m judging at an agility trial so I probably won’t get back till quite late. I’ll either be exhausted or on a high after the trial lol.
Ciao till then.
M.
Yep, that’s far better.
A bit of information about what we’ve done: when you add a repository to your sources, it needs a certificate to authenticate (to tell the system “it’s ok to use it”). With repos on Launchpad (PPA), it’s automatically done when you add them through add-apt-repository. For some reason, the MATE repo (that was added through the Welcome screen I guess) was unable to add the certificate as it seems that your system can’t contact the server that handles them. So I’ve just made you download the certificate and add it manually through the Softwares & Updates application.
We still don’t know why you can’t have access to the key server and why the Software Boutique doesn’t work, it would be a good idea to look a bit more deeply into this. But it can wait for tomorrow.
Anyway, the next step will be to do the available upgrades:
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Do this when you have time, there’s no rush, I’ll get a notification when you reply.
emjaycee@ubuntu-mate-mjc:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
[sudo] password for emjaycee:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
cabextract icoutils libieee1284-3:i386 libmspack0 libwxbase3.0-0v5
libwxgtk3.0-0v5 python-wxgtk3.0 python-wxversion
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be upgraded:
libparted2 parted simple-scan
3 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Need to get 0 B/334 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 334873 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../parted_3.2-18ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking parted (3.2-18ubuntu0.1) over (3.2-18) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libparted2_3.2-18ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libparted2:amd64 (3.2-18ubuntu0.1) over (3.2-18) ...
Preparing to unpack .../simple-scan_3.26.3-0ubuntu0.17.10.0_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking simple-scan (3.26.3-0ubuntu0.17.10.0) over (3.26.1-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libparted2:amd64 (3.2-18ubuntu0.1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.54.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:i386 (2.54.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up parted (3.2-18ubuntu0.1) ...
Setting up simple-scan (3.26.3-0ubuntu0.17.10.0) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3+17.10.20170810-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.26-0ubuntu2.1) ...
Processing triggers for udev (234-2ubuntu12.1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu5) ...
emjaycee@ubuntu-mate-mjc:~$
Seems like it has done quite a lot of upgrading there… more than just simple scan anyway lol!
Thank you very much again… I’ve just woken up lol 7.30am here.
Cheers
Michael
To actually fix the original issue with libsane that blocked you from installing Wine:
sudo apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="–force-overwrite" install --reinstall libsane1:i386
I wouldn’t have even ‘known’ it was libsane that blocked the initial WINE installation. I know we have been playing around with it… but I’ve just been following ‘orders’ lol. The website instructions are all pretty specific and seem logical to me, so I was surprised when it didn’t ‘just’ work. Still, it is installed now and I’m able to play with my Windows Dog Agility Course Designer program so it’s all good lol.
The printers are, of course, a different issue altogether lol.
I do like how Ubuntu Mate 17.10 works overall though, from install through to general operation, it’s a very nice distro. Probably a bit more straightforward than the other distros I’ve tried… but they’ve all had their good/bad points. It will just be a matter of what distro works best overall for my system in the long run. Really looking forward to trying 18.04 LTS. But, I do plan to have more than one distro installed eventually - one main one and at least three others on my old computer that I can play with. Hopefully, I will eventually be able to get rid of Windows and its issues forever lol.
Cheers
Michael