Unable to download software

[chzuck]

I have MX-14 installed on a T22 Thinkpad. I want to download Kompozer and some other software but am unable to. I have tried in QupZilla and Firefox and in both cases the download manager says there was a error. Any ideas on why I cannot download Kompozer?

[anticapitalista]

Where are you downloading to? Maybe the location is owned by root? Try downloading to the Downloads folder in home

[lucky9]

Make sure that FatRat (in the repos) is installed. Use it to download your file/s.

[chrispop99]

I tried this. The link to download on the Kompozer web site takes you to the SourceForge page, but you get a message in a red panel saying the file is unavailable.

However, if you click the text link on that page that follows 'Looking for the latest version', it downloads fine.

Chris

[chzuck]

I install FatRat, but that did not allow a download. I unchecked the box for Use native sys file dialog and now I can download Kompozer.

[chzuck]

I downloaded Kompozer, but cannot seem to install it. File is a tar.gz. I extracted the files but then at a loss as to how to proceed.

[kmathern]

Kompozer is available from the Debian Squeeze repos (https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/kompozer). It's not in Wheezy because it was removed from the Wheezy repos while Wheezy was still in "testing".

You could try adding the squeeze repos:

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deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

Simulating the install, it looks like it will:

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$ apt-get install kompozer -s
NOTE: This is only a simulation!
      apt-get needs root privileges for real execution.
      Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
      so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation!
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  kompozer-data libnspr4-0d
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  kompozer kompozer-data libnspr4-0d
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Inst libnspr4-0d (2:4.9.6-1~bpo70+1 antiX repository:3.1/stable [i386])
Inst kompozer-data (1:0.8~b3.dfsg.1-0.1 Debian:6.0.9/oldstable [all])
Inst kompozer (1:0.8~b3.dfsg.1-0.1 Debian:6.0.9/oldstable [i386])
Conf libnspr4-0d (2:4.9.6-1~bpo70+1 antiX repository:3.1/stable [i386])
Conf kompozer-data (1:0.8~b3.dfsg.1-0.1 Debian:6.0.9/oldstable [all])
Conf kompozer (1:0.8~b3.dfsg.1-0.1 Debian:6.0.9/oldstable [i386])

You might also request that it be backported (or in this case maybe "forwardported" is a better term) and added to the CRs.

[chzuck]

I am still pretty much of a rookie at Linux. I copied and pasted your code to add the repos, but it did not work. What might I be doing wrong?

[Jerry3904]

This stuff is not obvious, so you have lots of company.

First, did you reload after entering the new repo as kmathern indicated?

Second, you might retry using Synaptic > Settings > Repositories. Click the New button, and add like this:

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  Binary (deb)
Url: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/
Distribution: squeeze
Section(s): main contrib non-free

Then reload.

[dolphin_oracle]

that deb line is not really a command, more like a definition. since I'm not sure what you did, I will start from the beginning.

navigate with your file manager to /etc/apt/sources.list.d and select one of the .list files. Since its a debian repo you are adding, I would right click on debian.list and select "Edit as Root".

This will open the file in your text editor. Copy and paste the deb line that kmathern provided into this file.


For reference, the repo (deb) line is :

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deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

Once that's done, save the file and close. Open synaptic and hit the "reload button". searching for Kompozer should now work.

To play it safe, once you have your app installed, go back into /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list and comment out the squeeze repo line you added (just put a # symbol in front of the line). Then hit the reload button in synaptic to reset all your repos back to the standard.