knoppix 3.4 hd install not printing

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 12:50:05AM -0400, Chris Aitken wrote:
> Anton Markov wrote:
> 
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> >Hi Chris,
> >
> ># auto-apt search escputil
> >usr/bin/escputil        utils/escputil
> > 
> >
> root at p733:/home/chris# auto-apt search escputil
> bash: auto-apt: command not found
> root at p733:/home/chris# /sbin/auto-apt search escputil
> bash: /sbin/auto-apt: No such file or directory
> root at p733:/home/chris# locate auto-apt
> root at p733:/home/chris#
> 
> root at p733:/home/chris# /usr/bin/escputil
> bash: /usr/bin/escputil: No such file or directory
> root at p733:/home/chris# /utils/escputil
> bash: /utils/escputil: No such file or directory
> root at p733:/home/chris#
> 
> >Looks like you need to install the "escputil" package. I don't know if
> >you can use apt-get on a knoppix install (if yes, then just do "apt-get
> >install escputil")
> >
> root at p733:/home/chris# apt-get install escputil
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.us.debian.org 
> stable/main Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_pub_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages) 
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.us.debian.org 
> stable/contrib Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_pub_debian_dists_stable_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) 
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.us.debian.org 
> stable/non-free Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_pub_debian_dists_stable_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) 
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.us.debian.org 
> stable/non-US/main Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_pub_debian-non-US_dists_stable_non-US_main_binary-i386_Packages) 
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.us.debian.org 
> stable/non-US/contrib Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_pub_debian-non-US_dists_stable_non-US_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) 
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.us.debian.org 
> stable/non-US/non-free Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_pub_debian-non-US_dists_stable_non-US_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) 
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.us.debian.org 
> testing/main Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_pub_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages) 
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.us.debian.org 
> testing/contrib Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_pub_debian_dists_testing_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) 
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.us.debian.org 
> testing/non-free Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_pub_debian_dists_testing_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) 
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.us.debian.org 
> testing/non-US/main Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_pub_debian-non-US_dists_testing_non-US_main_binary-i386_Packages) 
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.us.debian.org 
> testing/non-US/contrib Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_pub_debian-non-US_dists_testing_non-US_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) 
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.us.debian.org 
> testing/non-US/non-free Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_pub_debian-non-US_dists_testing_non-US_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) 
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.us.debian.org 
> unstable/main Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages) 
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.us.debian.org 
> unstable/contrib Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) 
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.us.debian.org 
> unstable/non-free Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) 
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.us.debian.org 
> unstable/non-US/main Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_unstable_non-US_main_binary-i386_Packages) 
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.us.debian.org 
> unstable/non-US/contrib Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_unstable_non-US_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) 
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.us.debian.org 
> unstable/non-US/non-free Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_unstable_non-US_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) 
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.us.debian.org 
> ../project/experimental/main Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_.._project_experimental_main_binary-i386_Packages) 
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.us.debian.org 
> ../project/experimental/contrib Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_.._project_experimental_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) 
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.us.debian.org 
> ../project/experimental/non-free Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_.._project_experimental_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) 
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
> E: Couldn't find package escputil
> root at p733:/home/chris#

That means you never did:
apt-get update
Have to do that regularly to update the available packages lists.

Lennart Sorensen
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