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Hello, I'm new to Ubuntu and also to Deluge

After I clicked the downloaded package, here's the result (attached).
I don't know what it means, nor what I should do to resolve it.

Can you help me? Thanks for your time.

kanketsu wrote:Hello, I'm new to Ubuntu and also to Deluge

After I clicked the downloaded package, here's the result (attached).
I don't know what it means, nor what I should do to resolve it.

Can you help me? Thanks for your time.

you most likely downloaded the wrong package. you probably downloaded the hardy package when you're using gutsy instead.

I'm afraid that's not the reason; I downloaded this:
http://download.deluge-torrent.org/ubun ... .gutsy.deb

Should I downloaded the x86-64 instead?

kanketsu wrote:I'm afraid that's not the reason; I downloaded this:
http://download.deluge-torrent.org/ubun ... .gutsy.deb

Should I downloaded the x86-64 instead?

you should download whatever version for whatever platform you have. i think you might need to add "universe" to your sources. that's probably your problem, if you did download the right package from us.

kanketsu wrote:I'm afraid that's not the reason; I downloaded this:
http://download.deluge-torrent.org/ubun ... .gutsy.deb

Should I downloaded the x86-64 instead?

depends, what processor do you have?

Well, I use a Toshiba Tecra 8200, and I think that I've downloaded the correct version.

Speaking of this "universe", how do I "add" this to the "source"? Perhaps you can point me to further resource about it?

kanketsu wrote:Well, I use a Toshiba Tecra 8200, and I think that I've downloaded the correct version.

Speaking of this "universe", how do I "add" this to the "source"? Perhaps you can point me to further resource about it?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repos ... 847d373096

Assuming you're running gutsy then setup gutsy-backports in your sources list. Backports has the current version it there (5.8.3-1)

http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy-backpo ... ge-torrent

To set up the backports repository add these lines:

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

using the instructions you'll find here
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Guts ... g_Software

The version of liboost in the current gutsy depository is 1.34, but gdebi (which is what you're probably using to try anfd install) will not automatically resolve your dependencies (although it will tell you what they are). If you install using Synaptic (system|administration|synaptic package manager), after you've added backports to the repository list, then the dependencies should automatically get resolved.

There's other ways to do this, but that's probably the best for you at the moment. And anytime you can get the package you want from official repositories that's preferable to downloading it yourself, unless you have specific reasons to do it otherwise.

One other option is to install the listed dependency via Synaptic and then gdebi should install it just fine. I suggest you get involved on the Ubuntu forums as well - they seem like a friendly enough bunch over there.

Hi, thanks for all the help. And sorry for the late reply, got trouble connecting to the internet lately.

Thanks to your information, Deluge is up and running on the Tecra now. I don't completely get through the many technical terms - those look somehow menacing to me but what I did is pretty simple. As Markybob suggested, I went to System> Administration> Software Sources and then checked the universe checkbox. This solved the first problem, but created a similar one (phython something not found). So in the end I ended up clicking restricted & multiverse checkbox as well. After that, the package installed successfully.

No complaints so far ...
Maybe it's just me, but it seems that Deluge performs somehow faster than BitComet on my Tecra M2V running XP, and Transmission on my Macbook. Perhaps it was related to the fact that I haven't set anything like firewall or something on it? (M2V: NAV + Zone Alarm; Mac: OS X firewall)