Eureka! Your Red Pill suggestion did the trick. > Try enabling Red Pill mode[1] and installing through the Application > manager. Red Pill will allow e2fsprogs and other packages to display. > The Application manager should work fine through a proxy. I had religiously followed the HowTo to use an apt-get install as root. Not the Application Manager. My assumption was that package installs with the Manager would be only as a user and not system wide. That's coming from my Mac OS X and limited Mandriva Linux background. The e2fsprogs package worked as expected (and as root) after the installation. I also did use your uncheck the "enabled" box tip with the apt-get tribulations. It does sound like a good idea to continue that "only as needed approach" in general to reduce potential conflicts. > "Temporary failure resolving" refers to dns resolution, as far as I > know. That means it can't determine the IP address for > repository.maemo.org. Are you using a proxy? I don't think the proxy > settings translate over to the xterm. Other causes for this are your > ISP's DNS server is was broken, repository.maemo.org was broken, or > you weren't connected to your access point when you attempted this. No proxy. No ISP or DNS problems I could find. No loss of access point connection. I assume everything was fine since I was also updating through the Application Manager and browsing repository.maemo.org directories at the same time. Thanks again for all your help. --Don
