[ILUG] Problems wit Ubuntu server install

[Niall Sheridan]

bernhard.d.rohrer at accenture.com wrote:
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> Which parts?
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> can't remember all of them - I think it was all the perl scripts,
> definitely including dkpg-scanpackages
niall at binky:~(0)% dpkg -S /usr/bin/dpkg-scanpackages
dpkg-dev: /usr/bin/dpkg-scanpackages

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>> - the universe not properly populated
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> Can you provide more detail?
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> I had to manually find mc on the universe webpage, download it and
> dpkg it. it does not show up in apt or aptitude. and yes, my
> sources.list is correct ;)

You did run `apt-get update' right? WHat mirror are you using?
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>> - su and passwd are missing modules
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> Can you provide more detail?
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> 
> being root:
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> su cyrus
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> su: Module is unknown
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> (ignored)
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> su:Module is unknown
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That looks like a broken libpam-modules. Is it properly installed?
> 
> Bernhard
> 

Niall