I deleted all my Software Sources ->Other Software. Plz help

[Viper2]

I was trying to get back to this version of xulrunner "Version: 1.9.1.8+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1+tjaeger1" because an update messed it up. So I added the PPA for it, and deleted all "other software" sources, in order to force it to reinstall that particular xulrunner. I also deleted all the keys under "Authentication" also. It worked, but now my software updating doesn't work, and I can't even find Firefox in my Synaptic Package Manager to install it.

Please tell me which sources I need to add to Software Sources -> Other Software, and how do I get all the Authentication keys back? And please tell me how to do all this.

Thank you very much.

[viking777]

deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ helena upstream import backport romeo main
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ karmic partner
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ karmic free non-free

That is what I have got in mine. Copy those lines into software sources (just click the add button) of course you might have had more than that to start with but those sources will give you most of what you need .

That is the easy part. Getting authentication for them is a different ball game, so I will leave that to someone else, and while I am about it I will suggest to Linux developers that making this authentication process a whole lot easier than it is would be of huge benefit to Linux security.

[Viper2]

viking777, thank you very much for your help.

However, I need to everything to be authenticated, otherwise I can't do system updates/upgrades properly, and I can't even find packages like Firefox to download.

Can someone please help me fix this? Otherwise I have to do a full reinstall of Mint.

Thanks.

[Viper2]

Hello?? Anyone??

[remoulder]

For mint install http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/main ... 29_all.deb

For ubuntu open a terminal and enter

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sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 40976eaf437d05b5

For Medibuntu

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wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg  -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update