[clug] USB to RS232 DB9 Adapter

Bryan Kilgallin kilgallin at iinet.net.au
Thu Aug 8 03:48:01 UTC 2019


Thanks, Brad:

> My guess is that Bryan doesn't have the universe repository enabled.

Software & Updates lists Ubuntu software downloadable from the Internet. 
Community-maintained free and open-source software (universe) is ticked.

> Easy
> way to check is to grep universe /etc/apt/sources.list, and if you don't
> see anything, you need to add it.

That command reports this.

{
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic universe
# deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic universe
deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-updates universe
# deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-updates universe
deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-backports main 
restricted universe
# deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-backports main 
restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security universe
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security universe
}

> Copy one of the lines that has main or restricted in it and update it to
> say universe, then apt-get update and you shoudl be good to go.

That would be these.

{
deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-backports main 
restricted universe
# deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-backports main 
restricted universe multiverse
}

I am not confident. Using text editor, should I delete "main restricted" 
from the sources.list file?
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