Thanks to all you for your help! I followed your advice partially and was able to install Gnome. I don’t understand how it worked and I plan to try to figure that out tomorrow. Bedankt!
Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 6, 2020, at 6:51 PM, Tom Dial <tdd...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > >> On 6/6/20 09:14, leonard morin wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I hope all are well. I recently dual-installed debian from a live image >> on a usb along with Windows on a new computer. My friend gave me some >> guidance, but he is very busy so I don't want to bother him now. >> >> When I first installed, my wifi didn't work on Debian, so I couldn't >> download Gnome. As you can see below, my friend gave me a fix to connect >> to wifi, but it didn't work. Nor is it possible to download/install >> Gnome, as you can see from the error messages below. Can anyone explain >> to me how to fix this? By the way, I'm hard-wired now. Thanks! >> >> # apt-get install task-gnome-desktop >> E: Type 'Line' is not known on line 7 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list >> E: The list of sources could not be read. >> E: Type 'Line' is not known on line 7 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list >> E: The list of sources could not be read. >> # apt-get update >> E: Type 'Line' is not known on line 7 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list >> E: The list of sources could not be read. >> # apt-get upgrade >> E: Type 'Line' is not known on line 7 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list >> E: The list of sources could not be read. >> E: Type 'Line' is not known on line 7 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list >> E: The list of sources could not be read. > > At a guess, I would say these error messages occurred because > /etc/apt/sources.list is (functionally) empty - all the lines are > commented out. > > I would add > > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free > deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free > >> >> >> >> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Bullseye_ - Official Snapshot >> amd64 xfce-CD Binary-1 20200525-03:32]/ bullseye main contrib non-free >> >> #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Bullseye_ - Official Snapshot >> amd64 xfce-CD Binary-1 20200525-03:32]/ bullseye main contrib non-free >> >> Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify: > > Uncomment this line >> #deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main >> contrib non-free > >> Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify: > > And this one >> #deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security >> main contrib non-free > > (You could remove or omit the non-free and/or contrib if you don't > really need packages from those repositories). > > > Regards > Tom Dial
