Ubuntu – How to find packages to install via apt-get

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After doing a man apt-get and cursory Google search it's not clear how I find new programs to install (from the internet) using apt-get (which is amazingly powerful and simple coming from another Linux distro).

I'm using Ubuntu Server 8.04 LTS (an inherited system used for some random work), so no GUI.

Anyone have quick advice here?

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I always use packages.ubuntu.com

Also you can use apt-cache search for command-line searching. Or you can use the GUI package manager (Ubuntu Software Center / Synaptic) for searching software.

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Ubuntu – how to install packages with apt-get on a system connected via proxy

This method worked for me.....just have a try...

check the file /etc/apt/apt.conf

The contents were,

Acquire::http::proxy "http://<proxy>:<port>/";
Acquire::ftp::proxy "ftp://<proxy>:<port>/";
Acquire::https::proxy "https://<proxy>:<port>/";

This was the reason why you could reach proxy but couldn't get past it, since there is no username password information. So just put that info into it..

Acquire::http::proxy "http://<username>:<password>@<proxy>:<port>/";
Acquire::ftp::proxy "ftp://<username>:<password>@<proxy>:<port>/";
Acquire::https::proxy "https://<username>:<password>@<proxy>:<port>/";

save the file and you are done...

BROTIP: More better add these lines in another file, /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80proxy. This will ensure that after a version upgrade changes won't be lost.

Ubuntu – Can’t get anything to install, dependency errors

Output of sudo apt-get update which you have provided here has two problem

“Hash sum mismatch” error and
"GPG ERROR"

These two problem is already discussed here( for "Hash sum mismatch") and here (for "GPG ERROR").

Resolving these two error will solve your problem as you are not able to fetch the latest version of software available be in the respective repo.

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