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network-manager package

Can't connect to VPN

Asked by syntheticromania

I need to establish a PPTP connection with my school's VPN. The school's way of setting it up is by having me go into terminal and typing "apt-cache search network manager pptp" but nothing shows up, while on their demo, it has something loading. I have tried directly downloading Network Manager several times but when I try to install the Network Manager package, it comes up with an error saying "Dependency is not sustainable: libglib2.0-0" and I'm not quite sure what that means. I've just started using Ubuntu, so I'm still new to it. Any help would be great.
Thanks,
Geoff

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Bernd Schlapsi (bernd-sch) said : 		#1

try this command:
sudo apt-cache search network-manager-pptp

and to install this package:
sudo apt-get install network-manager-pptp

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syntheticromania (geoffshoupp) said : 		#2

sudo apt-cache search network-manager-pptp returned nothing and

sudo apt-get install network-manger-pptp returned "E: Couldn't find package network-manager-pptp."

I have the 0.6.6 version of the Network Manager, if that helps.

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Bernd Schlapsi (bernd-sch) said : 		#3

which ubuntu-version do you use?
and before you can install this package you have to activate the universe-repos
System->Administration->Software Sources
Check the option "Community-maintained Open Source software (universe)"
If you want you can enable also the other downloadable repos

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syntheticromania (geoffshoupp) said : 		#4

I have Ubuntu 8.04 amd64. All of the repos were already enabled.

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Bernd Schlapsi (bernd-sch) said : 		#5

the package "network-manager-pptp" has to be in the repos as you can see hear:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/network-manager-pptp

have you tried an "sudo aptitude update" before you tried to search in the repos?

you can also try to search in the Synaptic Package Manager (System -> Administration). If I type "pptp" into the search field I found this package

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syntheticromania (geoffshoupp) said : 		#6

That helped. Thank you so much.