apt-get problems

Hello all -

I have been working on building a small collection of computers to run rpiece. I am using Ubuntu, and have found that one computer will load radiance perfectly well using "sudo apt-get install radiance radiance-materials" and another will give me an error:

reading package lists..Done
reading dependency tree
Reading State Information...Done
E: couldn't find package radiance

they are on the same network and both have good and working network connections. Any help would be appreciated....

cheers

dave

I have been working on building a small collection of computers to run rpiece. I am using Ubuntu, and have found that one computer will load radiance perfectly well using "sudo apt-get install radiance radiance-materials" and another will give me an error:

reading package lists..Done
reading dependency tree
Reading State Information...Done
E: couldn't find package radiance

they are on the same network and both have good and working network connections. Any help would be appreciated....
  
This is obviously not a problem that could be solved by the Radiance folks here, but it seams that your apt-installation is broken. There are many ways to check why and how this is the case (the most basic would be to try to install any other package, maybe you cannot install anything at all?). Also working network connections not always mean access to apt-sources, e.g. if there is a firewall which blocks one machine and lets the others connect.

CU Lars.

This is obviously not a problem that could be solved by the Radiance
folks here, but it seams that your apt-installation is broken. There are
many ways to check why and how this is the case (the most basic would be
to try to install any other package, maybe you cannot install anything
at all?). Also working network connections not always mean access to
apt-sources, e.g. if there is a firewall which blocks one machine and
lets the others connect.

The other option would be that one of the is running a too old version
of Ubuntu. You need at least Ubuntu Hardy Heron, or Debian Lenny (which
will be released soon).

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