[Neurodebian-users] Set up my VM. Problems getting packages

Yaroslav Halchenko debian at onerussian.com
Fri Jan 7 19:31:54 UTC 2011


ah -- forgotten -i for sed, i.e.

sudo sed -i -e 's,neurodebian,debian,g' /etc/hosts

On Fri, 07 Jan 2011, Ariel Rokem wrote:

> Hi,

> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Yaroslav Halchenko
> <debian at onerussian.com> wrote:
> >  ho ho -- it seems this is somewhat a bug:  we have 'debian' as a
> >  hostname but in the /etc/hosts 127.0.1.1 is listed as neurodebian.

> >  that leads to all failures with hostname resolution.

> >  quick fix should be to run in a terminal:

> >  sudo sed -e 's,neurodebian,debian,g' /etc/hosts
> >  sudo apt-get -f install # might not even be needed


> Is this what you were expecting?

> brain at debian:~$ sudo sed -e 's,neurodebian,debian,g' /etc/hosts
> sudo: unable to resolve host debian
> 127.0.0.1	localhost
> 127.0.1.1	debian

> # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
> ::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> fe00::0 ip6-localnet
> ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
> ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
> ff02::2 ip6-allrouters


> Cheers,

> Ariel

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