Packages not found.

[argon99]

Hello All I am very tire and it's late so If I screw up some how please take that into account.

I am trying to install a number of different software packages. Such as the XCFE4 meta package and LXDE meta package and a few single program packages.

I am gettin a lot 0f 404 returns, file not found. I am using the apt-list file that came with deb mint. Is this a known issue and there is work around that I don't know about?

If not can someone please post a a valid sources.lst file. Thanks.

I can barely keep my eyes open and am going to bd will check this when I wake up.

Thanks

[xenopeek]

To help you with this, please run the commands from the terminal so you can copy & paste errors to here. The commands to run would be, of course first a update of the package index:

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sudo apt-get update

Then to install the Xfce4 meta package:

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sudo apt-get install xfce4

Or to install the LXDE meta package:

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sudo apt-get install lxde

It will also be helpful if you can share the output of the following command, to check that all your repositories are correct:

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inxi -Sr

[argon99]

here is the results

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System:    Host t61 Kernel 3.2.0-2-686-pae i686 (32 bit) Distro Linux Mint Debian Edition
Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
           deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
           deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
           deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
           deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/multimedia testing main non-free
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera.list
           deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free #Opera Browser (final releases)

it seems to have install lxde but I haven't tested it yet.