OldGeezer,

I understand your frustration, I went through it myself, only, hmm, about six months ago, and have been (trying) to learn everyday...

I came from a background of DOS, version 1.12 to current, through Win3.x, then Win95, and finally, to a guru status of Win98. I've programmed in Cobol, Fortan, and Basic - on mainframes, and have programmed in Basic, QBasic, PDS Basic, and Visual Basic, using VB in Win3.x, Win95, and Win98. What does that prove? Absolutely nothing in the world of Linux, its all garbage, its like comparing a PC to a MAC, or apples to oranges, completely different. About the only thing that is close, is DOS and Linux's Command Line Interface - but the "CLI" has way more power.

Some of the CLI programs have a close relation to a Graphical User Interface, but many still need to be done in the Command Line Interface, its the nature of the beast.

As for "Everyone in Linux has to be Guru's", no way, I am NOT a guru in Linux, I just learn as I go, and many times, fail at the attempt. Such is life. You just go, day by day, learning something new, and hopefully, growing from it.

Don't know where we go from here? You have two issues, from your initial post: (1) your sources.list needs to be changed, so it can get packages from places that exist in the outside world - the sources.list is simply a file, that contains entries that tell where apt-get can find packages to get, install, or search, for you. The file is a simple text based file, easily editted by any text editor, like kwrite. And, lastly, (2) you wanted to install a package, which, can be done through apt-get, easily as well, as long as the sources.list is current, and is pointing to locations that your package may exist.

You need (1) to get to (2), thus number 1 needs to be changed, so that number 2 can work, thus, the outcome is that you get what you want. I might add, changing the sources.list is not that hard, and in most cases, once it is changed, may not need to be changed for quite some time.

As for helping, I am always helpful, I was "born" that way, I was not "born" with any of this knowledge, I was never born with any Windows knowledge, and I don't have a Guru "on call" to help me out.... I just learn, everyday, and Linux has been a definate learning thing...

Ms. Cuddles